Qom province

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Qom Province Persian: استان قم
Province
Coordinates: 34°40′N 50°50′E / 34.667°N 50.833°E / 34.667; 50.833[2]
Country	Iran
Region	Region 1[1]
Capital	Qom
Counties	3
Government
• Governor-general	Mohammad Aghamiri
• MPs of Assembly of Experts	1 Mohammad Momen 2 Mohammad Yazdi 3 Seyyed Mohammad Saeedi
• Representative of the Supreme Leader	Seyyed Mohammad Saeedi
Area
• Total	11,526 km2 (4,450 sq mi)
Population  (2016)[3]
• Total	1,292,283
• Density	110/km2 (290/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+03:30 (IRST)
Main language(s)	Persian
HDI (2017)	0.816[4] very high · 7th

Qom Province (Persian: استان قم)^[a] is one of the 31 provinces of Iran with 11,237 km², covering 0.89% of the total area of the country. Its capital is the city of Qom. The province is in the central part of the country and was formed from part of Tehran Province in 1995.

At the time of the 2006 National Census, the province's population was 1,036,714, in 262,313 households.^[5] The following census in 2011 counted 1,151,672 people in 320,977 households, of whom 95.2% resided in urban areas of the province.^[6] At the 2016 census, the province's population had risen to 1,292,283 in 383,532 households.^[3]

The province was designated as part of Region 1 following the division of Iranian provinces into 5 regions which took place on June 22, 2014, for the purposes of coordination and development.^[1]

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