What is the population of Qom?
Qom has a city population of 900,000. That is the population within the city's own boundary, not its wider metropolitan area. City population, GeoNames.
City profile · Iran · Asia
Qom
Qom Province · Iran
City population
900,000
#7
in Iran
#1
in Qom Province
#619
worldwide
34.640, 50.876 · 127 km from Tehran
About Qom
Iran's seventh-largest city, Qom holds 900,000 residents and accounts for 1% of the national population. Located 127 km from Tehran, it sits at 935 m elevation. Shahrak-e Pardīsān, a city of 100,000, lies 11 km away; Sāveh (220,762 residents) is 64 km distant.
This summary is AI-generated from the figures on this page. The figures themselves come from the sources cited beside each value.
Key Facts
Country
Region
Qom Province
Rank in region
#1of 2
Elevation
935 m
Approximate — modelled, not surveyed
Time zone
Asia/Tehran
Coordinates
34.640, 50.876
Record updated
2019-09-05
Entry edited, not measured
City population, GeoNames. GeoNames publishes no year for its population figures, so “record updated” is when the entry was last edited — not the date the population was measured. Elevation is modelled from a digital elevation model rather than surveyed, so it is approximate.
Nearby Cities
All 422 in IranClosest listed cities by great-circle distance from the city centre.
Compared with the World's Largest Cities
City-proper population against the fifteen largest cities in the dataset.
| Name | City population |
|---|---|
| Shanghai | 24.9M |
| Beijing | 19M |
| Shenzhen | 17.5M |
| Guangzhou | 16.1M |
| Kinshasa | 16M |
| Istanbul | 15.7M |
| Lagos | 15.4M |
| Ho Chi Minh City | 14M |
| Chengdu | 13.6M |
| Lahore | 13M |
| Mumbai | 12.7M |
| São Paulo | 12.4M |
| Mexico City | 12.3M |
| Karachi | 11.6M |
| Tianjin | 11.1M |
| Qom | 900K |
Qom Population FAQ
Where is Qom?
Qom is in Qom Province, Iran, 127 km from the capital, Tehran. Its coordinates are 34.640, 50.876.
How big is Qom compared with other cities in Iran?
It is the 7th largest of the 422 cities of 15,000 or more listed in Iran, holding 1.0% of the national population.