Al Shahaniyah
Al Shahaniyah is a town in central Qatar, out to the west of Doha, in the Al Rayyan municipality. The majority of activity associated with camel racing and oryx breeding in Qatar take place within the municipality.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality with 8,380 residents
- Description: municipality in Qatar
- Also known as: “Al-Shahaniya”, “Ash Shaḩānīyah”, “Ash Shayḩānīyah”, “Ash Shihaniyah”, and “Ash Shīḩānīyah”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sheikh Faisal Museum.
Sheikh Faisal Museum
Museum
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Sheikh Faisal Bin Qassim Al Thani Museum is a privately owned museum located in the municipality of Al-Shahaniya in Qatar. Encompassing an area of 530,000 m2, the three-building museum was opened in 1998 by Sheikh Faisal bin Qassim Al Thani.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Al-Shahaniya.
Al-Shahaniya
Town
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Al-Shahaniya City is a city in Qatar, located in the similarly named municipality of Al-Shahaniya. Qatar's most notable camel racetrack, Al-Shahaniya Camel Racetrack, is located in the city.
Al Shahaniyah
- Category: municipality of Qatar
- Location: Qatar, Middle East, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Al Shahaniyah” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الشحانية”
- Arabic: “اَلشَّحَانِيَّة”
- Arabic: “الشيحانية”
- Basque: “Al-Shahaniya”
- Catalan: “Al Shahaniya (municipi)”
- Catalan: “Al Shahaniya”
- Chinese: “沙哈尼亚”
- Chinese: “沙哈尼亞”
- Chinese: “艾爾沙哈尼亞自治市”
- French: “Al-Shahaniya”
- Galician: “Al Shahaniya”
- German: “Asch-Schahaniyya”
- Japanese: “シャハーニーヤ”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Al-Shahaniya”
- Persian: “شحانیه”
- Persian: “شهرداری الشحانیه”
- Polish: “Asz-Szahanijja (prowincja)”
- Polish: “Asz-Szahanijja”
- Portuguese: “Al Shahaniyah”
- Portuguese: “Al-Shahaniya”
- Romanian: “Al-Shahaniya”
- Russian: “Аль-Шахания”
- Russian: “Эш-Шахания”
- Somali: “Al-Shahaniya”
- Spanish: “Al Shahaniya”
- Spanish: “Municipio de Al Shahaniya”
- Sylheti: “ꠀꠟ ꠍꠣꠘꠣꠁꠀ”
- Turkish: “Eş-Şahaniye”
- Ukrainian: “Аль-Шаханія”
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