Qaem-Shahr
| Qaem-Shahr قائمشهر | |||
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 Iran
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| Province : | Māzandarān | ||
| Coordinates : | 36 ° 28 ′ N , 52 ° 52 ′ E | ||
| Height : | 51.2 m | ||
| Surface: | 740 km² | ||
| Residents : | 193,031 (2012) | ||
| Population density: | 452 inhabitants per km² | ||
| Time zone : | UTC +3: 30 | ||
Qaem-Shahr ( Persian قائمشهر Qaemschahr , DMG Qāʾem-Šahr ) is a city in Iran on the northern edge of the Elbursgebirge . It belongs to the province of Māzandarān and in 2012 had an estimated population of over 193,000.
The city is located 23 km from the provincial capital Sari and 237 km northeast of Tehran . It is connected to these cities by a motorway and a railroad.
The city changed its name twice in the 20th century: it was known as Aliabad in the 1930s as the destination of the first northern construction phase of the Trans-Iranian Railway . Under the reign of the Pahlavi dynasty , the name was then changed to Shahi and with the revolution of 1979 the name was finally changed to “City of Qaem”, which is a title of the Mahdi expected by Shiites .
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