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Qaem Shahr قائم‌شهر
City
Qaem Shahr
Coordinates: 36°27′47″N 52°51′36″E / 36.46306°N 52.86000°E / 36.46306; 52.86000Coordinates: 36°27′47″N 52°51′36″E / 36.46306°N 52.86000°E / 36.46306; 52.86000
Country	Iran
Province	Mazandaran
County	Qaem Shahr
Bakhsh	Central
Area
• City	30 km2 (10 sq mi)
Population (2016 Census)
• Urban	204,953 [1]
Time zone	UTC+3:30 (IRST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+4:30 (IRDT)
Website	http://www.ghaemshahr.ir

Qaem Shahr pronunciation (help·info) (Persian: قائم‌شهر‎, also Romanized as Qā’em Shahr; formerly known as Shāhi (Persian: Ŝāhi) ^[2] is a city and capital of Qaem Shahr County, Mazandaran Province, Iran. At the 2016 census, its population was 204,953.^[3]

Originally known as Aliyabad, the name Ŝâhi (Shāhi) was used until the Iranian Revolution in 1979 when the city acquired its current name.

The city is situated 237 kilometres (147 mi) north-east of Tehran; 20 kilometres (12 mi) southeast of Babol; and 23 kilometres (14 mi) south west of Sari which is the capital of Mazandaran province.

In 1951, Qa'em Shahr's population was around 18,000, growing to 123,684 in 1991. The city has a lot of problems with the growing population. Although the maze of Seyyed Mahalleh has kept its old shape, the old houses with gardens are replaced with apartment buildings. The roads are still too small, especially in the center of the town, and the rest of the infrastructure does not match the need.^{[citation needed]}

World and Olympic champion weightlifter Behdad Salimi hails from Qaem Shahr.
The city is where the North Iranian railway quits the fertile plains of Mazandaran to cross the highest mountain range of the Middle East, the Elburz.

Notable people

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  Ramin Mirzaeian (b. 1961) - football player


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  Nader Dastneshan (b. 1960) - football player and coach


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  Fereydoon Fazli (b. 1971) - football player


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  Babak Nourzad (b. 1978) - wrestler


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  Mojtaba Tarshiz (b. 1978) - football player


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  Farshid Talebi (b. 1981) - football player


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  Maysam Baou (b. 1983) - football player


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  Mehdi Jafarpour (b. 1984) - football player


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  Mehrdad Oladi (b. 1985 d.2016) - football player


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  Mehrdad Kafshgari (b. 1987) - football player


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  Behdad Salimi (b. 1989) - weightlifter


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  Mohammad Abbaszadeh (b. 1990) - football player


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  Ali Alipour (b. 1995) - football player


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  Farhad Majidi - football player


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  Behnam Tayyebi - wrestler


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  Jaber Sadeghzadeh (b. 1991) - wrestler


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  Ahmad Mohammadi (b. 1989) - wrestler


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  Mansour Sadeghi - pop singer


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  Mansour Hedayati-(residence) - poet

References

• Columbia Encyclopedia

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