1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Iran
Compare this sourced profile of Qom, Iran before planning. Stable fields identify the place; confirm current transport, access and opening details with official sources.
01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Qom—900,000, Asia/Tehran, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
Wikidata's localized description: city in Qom Province, Iran.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Qom is GeoNames ID 119208. Its recorded administrative path is Qom Province → Iran, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Qom occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2019-09-05; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Qom ranks 618 by recorded population. Inside the 15 selected Iran entries it ranks 7; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 123. Its 900,000 population value is 1.07 times the 841,145 median for the country cohort and 1.00 times the 902,588 regional median. Qom sits in the second quarter of this atlas's Iran population cohort. Qom's recorded value stays within one quarter of the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Qom's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Arak at 123.979 km with 503,647 recorded people; Tehran at 127.273 km with 7,153,309 recorded people; Karaj at 133.018 km with 1,448,075 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 9.039 km. Compared with Arak, Qom's recorded population is 1.79 times as large. Against Qom, Arak follows Markazi → Iran in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Iran cohort, uses the shared Asia/Tehran identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Qom's. Against Qom, Tehran follows Tehran → Iran in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Iran cohort, uses the shared Asia/Tehran identifier, and carries capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Qom's. Against Qom, Karaj follows Alborz Province → Iran in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Iran cohort, uses the shared Asia/Tehran identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Qom's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 787 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Qom's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the wider half of atlas distances. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 119208, the coordinate pair 34.6401 / 50.8764, country rank 7 of 15, and neighbor GeoNames 143127 at 123.979 km bind Qom to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Qom's reference point is 34.6401° north and 50.8764° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Tehran is shared by 15 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Qom's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Qom's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Qom's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Qom, so the profile preserves that missing value instead of guessing terrain. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Qom's closest other entries in this atlas are Arak (123.979 km), Tehran (127.273 km), Karaj (133.018 km).
04Verify before you book
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Read how City Atlas Club verifies changing travel facts →05Sources and freshness
GeoNames updated the row 2019-09-05; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
GeoNames data: CC BY 4.0. Wikidata labels and descriptions: CC0 1.0.