Eslamshahr

About Eslamshahr

Eslamshahr (Persian: اسلامشهر), also known as Shadshahr (Persian: شادشهر), is a city in the Central District of Eslamshahr County, Tehran province, Iran. It is the capital of both the county and the district.

The name of Eslamshahr before the Iranian Revolution was "Shadshahr". After the revolution, in 1979 the government changed the name to "Eslamshahr." The oldest historic name of Shadshahr was Bahramabad, now applied only to the small northern suburbs of Eslamshahr, or the village of Bahramabad.

At the time of the 2006 National Census, the city's population was 357,171 in 91,293 households. The following census in 2011 counted 389,102 people in 112,487 households. The 2016 census measured the population of the city as 448,129 people in 137,638 households.

The city has grown to be the most populous non-provincial capital city and the 19th overall most populous city of the country.

The city is located on the Saveh Road, which starts in the south of Tehran, and ends at Saveh City.

Its neighborhoods are Vavan, Ghaemieh, Saeedieh, Mohamadieh, Mahdieh, Baghenarde, Saloor, Noori, Ghasemabad, Shirudi, Golha, Elahiye, Ahmadabad...

Overview adapted from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA. Photography via Wikimedia Commons.