Kahak County ( fa, شهرستان کهک) is in
Qom
Qom (also spelled as "Ghom", "Ghum", or "Qum") ( fa, قم ) is the seventh largest metropolis and also the seventh largest city in Iran. Qom is the capital of Qom Province. It is located to the south of Tehran. At the 2016 census, its popul ...
province,
Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...
. The capital of the county is the city of
Kahak. At the 2006 census, the region's population (as Nofel Loshato District of
Qom County
Qom County ( fa, شهرستان قم) is located in Qom province, Iran. The capital of the county is Qom. At the 2006 census, the county's population (including those portions of the county later split off to form Jafarabad County
, set ...
) was 14,621 in 4,194 households.
The district had been named after
Neauphle-le-Château
Neauphle-le-Château () is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France.
History
Neauphle-le-Château gained international fame in 1978 when, on October 8, Iranian Islamic leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Kh ...
, where
Ayatollah Khomeini
Ruhollah Khomeini, Ayatollah Khomeini, Imam Khomeini ( , ; ; 17 May 1900 – 3 June 1989) was an Iranian political and religious leader who served as the first supreme leader of Iran from 1979 until his death in 1989. He was the founder of ...
spent his exile in France. The following census in 2011 counted 15,235 people in 4,662 households.
At the 2016 census, the district's population was 20,588 in 6,492 households.
It was separated from the county on 10 May 2021 to become Kahak County.
Administrative divisions
The population history of Kahak County's administrative divisions (as a district of Qom County) over three consecutive censuses is shown in the following table.
References
Counties of Qom Province
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