Pardisan City

Pardisan پردیسان
neighbourhood
View of Pardisan
Pardisan
Coordinates: 34°38′24″N 50°52′35″E / 34.64000°N 50.87639°E / 34.64000; 50.87639Coordinates: 34°38′24″N 50°52′35″E / 34.64000°N 50.87639°E / 34.64000; 50.87639
Country	Iran
Province	Qom
County	Qom
Bakhsh	Central
Population (2012)
• Total	100,000
Time zone	IRST (UTC+3:30)

Pardisan (Persian: پردیسان‎‎) is a neighbourhood in south of Qom, in Iran. Its population is 100,000 people and it is estimated that it will reach 300,000 in years later.

A major part of Pardisan's population are clerics of Islamic Seminary who inhabited in Pardisan following the mass-building program managed by The Center for Services for Islamic Seminaries (CSIS) during to decades.

Pardisan City is considered the academic region of Qom in which many universities and academic institutes are located such as The Islamic Azad University, University of Religions and Denominations (URD), Qom campus of Tehran University, Payam-i Nur University, Research Institute of Hawzah and University, Research Institute of Shi'a Studies, Qom Human Science and Technology Park, etc.

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