Qaem Shahr (, 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 (Shahi) 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 northeast of Tehran; southeast of Babol; and southwest of Sari, the capital of the province.
In 1951, Qaem Shahr's population was around 18,000, growing to 123,684 in 1991. 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 Alborz.
Notable people
Behdad Salimi (born 1989) – weightlifter
Farhad Majidi – football player
Nader Dastneshan (1960–2021) – football coach
Mehrdad Oladi (1985–2016) – football player
Mehrdad Kafshgari (born 1987) – football player
Fereydoon Fazli (born 1971) – football player
Babak Nourzad (born 1978) – wrestler
Mojtaba Tarshiz (born 1978) – football player
Farshid Talebi (born 1981) – football player
Maysam Baou (born 1983) – football player
Mehdi Jafarpour (born 1984) – football player
Mohammad Abbaszadeh (born 1990) – football player
Ali Alipour (born 1995) – football player
Behnam Tayyebi (born 1975) – wrestler
Ahmad Mohammadi (born 1989) – wrestler
Mansour Hedayati – (residence) – poet
Important places
Islamic Azad University of Qaemshahr
Telar jungle park
Sports
Qaem Shahr is one of the sports magnets in Iran. World and Olympic champion weightlifter Behdad Salimi hails from Qaem Shahr.