Al Rayyan
Al-Rayyan is a large city in the similarly named municipality of Al Rayyan, in Qatar. The city and its suburbs comprise the largest population center in Qatar outside of Doha proper, which is immediately to the east of Al Rayyan.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 272,000 residents
- Description: town in Qatar
- Also known as: “Al Raiyan”, “Ar Rayyan”, “Ar Rayyān”, and “Raiyan”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Education City Stadium and Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art.
Education City Stadium
Stadium
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Education City Stadium is a football stadium which is located in Al Rayyan, Qatar, and was built as a venue in time for the 2022 FIFA World Cup held in Qatar.
Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art
Museum
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Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art is a museum in Doha, Qatar with over 9,000 objects. Established in 2010, it is considered a major cultural attraction in the country. Mathaf houses the world's largest collection of modern and contemporary Arab art.
Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar
University
Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar is a branch of Weill Cornell Medicine of Cornell University, established on April 9, 2001, following an agreement between Cornell University and the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Education City and Muaither.
Education City
Locality
Education City is an educational and research hub located in Al Rayyan Municipality in the Doha Metropolitan Area of Qatar. Developed by the Qatar Foundation, it was established by Moza bint Nasser, one of the consorts of Qatar's former ruler Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani and the current ruler's mother, to advance education, research, and innovation in the region.
Muaither
Suburb
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Muaither is a district of Al Rayyan City in Qatar, located in the municipality of Al Rayyan.
Al Gharrafa
Suburb
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Al Gharrafa is a Qatari district of Al Rayyan City, which is located in the municipality of Al Rayyan. In close proximity to Education City and constituting a part of the Doha Metropolitan Area, the Doha Expressway and Al Shamal Highway run along the district.
Al Rayyan
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Al Rayyan, Qatar, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
25.2966° or 25° 17′ 48″ northLongitude
51.4346° or 51° 26′ 5″ eastPopulation
272,000Elevation
23 metres (75 feet)United Nations Location Code
QA RYNOpen location code
7HQH7CWM+JVOpenStreetMap ID
node 2189253861OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Uzbek—“Al Rayyan” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الريان”
- Asturian: “Al Rayyán”
- Balinese: “Al Rayyan (kota)”
- Balinese: “Al Rayyan”
- Basque: “Al Rayyan (hiria)”
- Basque: “Al Rayyan”
- Belarusian: “Эр-Раян”
- Bengali: “আল রাইয়ান (শহর)”
- Bengali: “আল রাইয়ান”
- Bulgarian: “Райян”
- Catalan: “Ar Rayyan”
- Cebuano: “Ar Rayyān”
- Central Kurdish: “ئەڕڕەیان”
- Chinese: “賴揚市”
- Chinese: “赖扬”
- Czech: “ar-Raján”
- Czech: “ar-Rajján”
- Dutch: “Ar Rayyan”
- Egyptian Arabic: “الريان”
- French: “Al Rayyan”
- French: “Al-Rayyan”
- German: “ar-Rayyan”
- German: “Ar-Rayyan”
- Greek: “Αλ Ραγιάν”
- Greek: “Αρ Ραγιάν”
- Hebrew: “א-ריאן”
- Hungarian: “Al-Rajján”
- Indonesian: “Al-Rayyan”
- Interlingue: “Al Rayyan”
- Irish: “Ar Rayyan”
- Italian: “Al Rayyan (città)”
- Italian: “Al Rayyan”
- Japanese: “アル・ライヤーン”
- Japanese: “ライヤーン”
- Kazakh: “Әл-Райян”
- Latvian: “Raijāna”
- Lithuanian: “Rajanas”
- Malay: “Al Rayyan (bandar)”
- Malay: “Al Rayyan”
- Mingrelian: “ერ-რაიანი”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Al Rayyan”
- Norwegian: “Al Rayyan”
- Norwegian: “Ar Rayyan”
- Persian: “الریان”
- Polish: “Ar-Rajjan”
- Russian: “Эр-Райян”
- Serbian: “Рајан”
- Silesian: “Ar-Rajjan”
- Spanish: “Al Rayyan”
- Spanish: “Rayán”
- Swedish: “al-Rayyan”
- Swedish: “Al-Rayyan”
- Thai: “อัรร็อยยาน”
- Ukrainian: “Ер-Раян”
- Urdu: “الریان (شہر)”
- Urdu: “الریان”
- Uzbek: “Al Rayyan (shahar)”
- Uzbek: “Ar‑Rayyan”
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Highlights include AL RAYYAN SECURITY DEPARTMENT and Al Rayyan Police Section.
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