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Sain Qaleh (Persian: صائين قلعه)[a] is a city in the Central District of Abhar County, Zanjan province, Iran.[5]
At the time of the 2006 National Census, the city's population was 11,083 in 2,896 households.[6] The following census in 2011 counted 11,939 people in 3,470 households.[7] The 2016 census measured the population of the city as 12,989 people in 4,048 households.[3]
The 14th-century author Hamdallah Mustawfi mentioned Sa'in Qal'eh in his Nuzhat al-Qulub: he referred to "the village called Quhūd, which the Mongols call Sāin Qal'ah, and which is the chief of all those neighboring hamlets".[8] He also wrote that it was close to the castle of Sarjahan.[8]