Qom, also Romanized as Ghom, Ghum, or Qum, is a city in the Central District of Qom County, Qom province, Iran, serving as capital of the province, the county, and the district. It is the seventh largest metropolis and also the seventh largest city in Iran. The city is 140 km (87 mi) to the south of Tehran, and on the banks of the Qom River.
Image: The image of Hazrat Masoumeh's shrine
Image: Maghabere Gonbade Sabz مقابر گنبد سبز از بناهای تاریخی شهر قم
Image: IMG 0193 Qom
Image: عکس از مدرسه علمیه معصومیه شهر قم
Qom province, pre-Islamic Komishan/Qomishan, is one of the 31 provinces of Iran with 11,237 km², covering 0.89% of the total area of the country. It is in the central part of the country, and its capital is the city of Qom. It was formed from part of Tehran province in 1995. At the time of the National Census in 2006 census, the province's population was 1,036,714, in 262,313 households. The following census in 2011 counted 1,151,672 people in 320,977 households, of whom 95.2% resided in urban areas of the province. At the 2016 census, the province's population had risen to 1,292,283 in 383,532 households.
Vessel from Kahak, Qom, dated mid-first millennium BC.
The Jamkaran mosque is a popular pilgrimage site for Shia Muslims
Qom Seminary
Hoz Marreh Wetland
