Qaem Shahr

Qaem Shahr (Persian: قائم‌شهر, also Romanized as Qā’em Shahr; formerly known as Shāhi is a city in the Central District of Qaem Shahr County, Mazandaran province, Iran, and serves as both capital of the county and of the district.

Originally known as Aliyabad, the name Ŝâhi was used until the Iranian Revolution in 1979 when the city acquired its current name.At the 2006 National Census, its population was 174,246 in 48,055 households. The following census in 2011 counted 196,050 people in 60,347 households. The latest census in 2016 showed a population of 204,953 people in 68,407 households.The city is 237 kilometres northeast of Tehran; 20 kilometres southeast of Babol; and 23 kilometres southwest of Sari, the capital of the province.