Qom

Qom is the capital of , . It is also the capital of Qom County and its Central District. It is the seventh largest metropolis and the seventh largest city in Iran.
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  • Type: City with 1,080,000 residents
  • Description: city in Qom Province, Iran
  • Also known as: “Ghom” and “Qum”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Holy Shrine of Fatima Masoumeh and Qom.

Mosque
Photo: Mahdi Fathi Arjmand, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Fatima Masumeh Shrine is the mausoleum of Fatima bint Musa, located in Qom, Iran. Qom is considered a holy city in Shia Islam along with , , , , and .

Railway station
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railway station is located in , Province. The station is owned by IRI Railway. All train services were moved to on the outskirts of the city, however due to public demand and drop in passenger levels, some services were restored in this city centre station.

Mosque
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The Imam Hasan al-Askari Mosque, also known as the Imam Hassan Al-Asgari Mosque or simply, the Al-Askari Mosque, is a Twelver Shi'ite and mausoleum, located in the city of Qom, in the province of , .

Qom

Latitude
34.6423° or 34° 38′ 32″ north
Longitude
50.8801° or 50° 52′ 48″ east
Population
1,080,000
Elevation
935 metres (3,068 feet)
IATA airport code
QUM
United Nations Location Code
IR QUM
Open location code
8H6GJVRJ+W2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 9678440938
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
119208
Wiki­data ID
Q170573
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Qom” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Qom”
  • Arabic: “قم المقدسة”
  • Arabic: “قم”
  • Arabic: “مدينة قم”
  • Armenian: “Ղոմ”
  • Asturian: “Qom”
  • Asturian: “Qum”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qum şəhəri”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qum”
  • Basque: “Qom”
  • Belarusian: “Кум”
  • Bengali: “(কো)ওম”
  • Bengali: “কোম”
  • Bulgarian: “Кум”
  • Catalan: “Kum”
  • Catalan: “Kumm”
  • Catalan: “Qom”
  • Catalan: “Qomm”
  • Catalan: “Qum”
  • Catalan: “Qumm”
  • Cebuano: “Dakbayan sa Qom”
  • Central Kurdish: “قوم”
  • Chechen: “Кум (гӀала)”
  • Chechen: “Кум”
  • Chinese: “Qom”
  • Chinese: “古姆”
  • Chinese: “库姆”
  • Chinese: “庫姆”
  • Croatian: “Kom”
  • Czech: “Kom”
  • Czech: “Kum”
  • Czech: “Qom”
  • Danish: “Qom”
  • Dutch: “Qom”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “قم”
  • Esperanto: “Ĥomo”
  • Esperanto: “Qom”
  • Estonian: “Qom”
  • Finnish: “Qom”
  • Finnish: “Qum”
  • French: “Koum”
  • French: “Qom”
  • Fulah: “Ghom”
  • Galician: “Qom”
  • Georgian: “ყუმი”
  • German: “Ghom”
  • German: “Qom”
  • German: “Qum”
  • Gilaki: “قۊم”
  • Greek: “Κομ”
  • Gujarati: “કોમ”
  • Hausa: “Qom”
  • Hebrew: “קום”
  • Hindi: “कुम”
  • Hindi: “कोम”
  • Hungarian: “Kom”
  • Ido: “Qom”
  • Indonesian: “Qom”
  • Indonesian: “Qum”
  • Irish: “Qom”
  • Italian: “Qom”
  • Japanese: “コム”
  • Japanese: “ゴム”
  • Japanese: “ゴム市”
  • Kannada: “ಕೋಮ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Qum (qala)”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Qum”
  • Kashmiri: “قم”
  • Kazakh: “Kwm”
  • Kazakh: “Кум”
  • Kazakh: “Қом”
  • Kazakh: “Құм (қала)”
  • Kazakh: “كۋم”
  • Kirghiz: “Кум шаары, Иран”
  • Kirghiz: “Кум шаары”
  • Komering: “Qom”
  • Korean: “곰”
  • Korean: “콤”
  • Korean: “쿰”
  • Kurdish: “Qom”
  • Kurdish: “Qum”
  • Kurdish: “Qûm”
  • Kurdish: “قووم”
  • Latin: “Comum”
  • Latvian: “Kuma”
  • Lithuanian: “Kumas”
  • Malagasy: “Qom”
  • Malay: “Qom”
  • Malayalam: “ക്വോം”
  • Maltese: “Ghom”
  • Maltese: “Qom”
  • Maltese: “Qum”
  • Maori: “Kome”
  • Maori: “Qom”
  • Marathi: “कॉम”
  • Marathi: “कोम”
  • Mazanderani: “قم”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Qom”
  • Mingrelian: “ყუმი”
  • Moksha: “Кум (ошсь)”
  • Moksha: “Кум”
  • Northern Frisian: “Qom”
  • Northern Luri: “قوم”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Qom”
  • Norwegian: “Qom”
  • Ossetian: “Кум”
  • Persian: “شهر قم”
  • Persian: “قم”
  • Polish: “Ghom”
  • Polish: “Kom”
  • Polish: “Qom”
  • Portuguese: “Cume”
  • Portuguese: “Qom”
  • Pushto: “قم”
  • Quechua: “Qom”
  • Romanian: “Qom”
  • Russian: “Кум”
  • Scots: “Qom”
  • Serbian: “Ком”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Gom”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kom”
  • Silesian: “Kom (mjasto)”
  • Silesian: “Kom”
  • Sindhi: “قم”
  • Sinhala: “කොම්”
  • Slovak: “Ghom”
  • Slovak: “Kom”
  • Slovak: “Komm”
  • Slovak: “Kum”
  • Slovak: “Kumm”
  • Slovenian: “Gom”
  • Slovenian: “Qom”
  • South Azerbaijani: “قوم”
  • Spanish: “Qom”
  • Spanish: “Qum”
  • Swahili: “Ghom”
  • Swedish: “Q’um”
  • Swedish: “Qom”
  • Swedish: “Qum”
  • Tagalog: “Qom”
  • Tajik: “Qum”
  • Tajik: “Қум”
  • Tamil: “கும்”
  • Tamil: “குவோம்”
  • Tatar: “Ком (шәһәр)”
  • Tatar: “Ком”
  • Telugu: “కోమ్”
  • Thai: “โกม”
  • Turkish: “Kum, İran”
  • Turkish: “Kum”
  • Turkmen: “Kum”
  • Uighur: “قوم”
  • Ukrainian: “Кум”
  • Urdu: “قم، قم”
  • Urdu: “قم”
  • Uzbek: “Qum”
  • Vietnamese: “Qom”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Qom”
  • Welsh: “Q’um”
  • Welsh: “Qom”
  • Western Panjabi: “قم”
  • Wolof: “Qom”
  • Wu Chinese: “库姆”
  • Yue Chinese: “庫姆”

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