Khomeyn

Khomeyn (Persian: خمين, romanized: Khumayn, also Romanized as Khowmeyn) is a city in the Central District of Khomeyn County, Markazi province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district.

At the 2006 National Census, its population was 64,031 in 17,399 households. The following census in 2011 counted 70,053 people in 21,477 households. The latest census in 2016 showed a population of 72,882 people in 23,334 households.

Khomeyn is in the south of the province, in a fertile plain, about 160 kilometres (99 mi) from Qom and 325 kilometres (202 mi) from Tehran. The climate of Khomeyn is a moderate mountainous inclining to a semi-desert one. Winters are cold and summers are moderate. The name of Khomein was primarily mentioned in a book named The History of Prophets and Kings. Subterranean canals (qanats), sewers and its famous fire-temple can be named as some pre-Islamic relics. This town was called the center of Kamareh 200 years ago.

The house where former supreme leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, was born is located in Khomein, and was made into a museum. On 18 November 2022 during the Mahsa Amini protests, the house was set on fire.