Al Shamal
Al Shamal is a municipality in the state of Qatar. The seaside teems with local dhow boats. Al Ruwais is part of a conglomeration of towns in the municipality of Madinat ash Shamal, including Al Ruwais and Abu Dahlouf.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Rafeek Qatar, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: Xavier Bouchevreau, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Locality with 5,270 residents
- Description: administrative territorial entity of Qatar
- Also known as: “Madīnat ash Shamāl”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ar-Ruʼays.
Ar-Ruʼays
Town
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ar-Ruʼays, also spelled Al Ruwais, is a port town in the Qatari municipality of Al Shamal. It is located on the northern tip of Qatar, approximately 127 km north of the capital Doha.
Al Shamal
- Category: municipality of Qatar
- Location: Madinat ash Shamal, Qatar, Middle East, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Armenian—“Al Shamal” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بلدية الشمال”
- Arabic: “بلديه الشمال”
- Arabic: “مدينة الشمال”
- Basque: “Al Shamal”
- Bengali: “মাদিনাত আস শামাল”
- Catalan: “Al Shamal”
- Catalan: “Madinat ash Shamal”
- Chinese: “北部区”
- Chinese: “艾尔撒马尔自治市”
- Danish: “Madinat ash Shamal”
- Dutch: “Ash Shamal”
- Egyptian Arabic: “الشمال”
- Finnish: “Al-Šamal”
- Finnish: “Al-Shamal”
- French: “Ash Shamal”
- French: “Madinat ash Shamal”
- German: “Al-Shamal”
- German: “Asch-Schamal”
- Greek: “Μαντινάτ ας-Σαμάλ”
- Gujarati: “મદીનાત એશ શમલ”
- Hebrew: “בלדיה א-שמאל”
- Hebrew: “בלדיה אלשמאל”
- Hebrew: “בלדית א-שמאל”
- Hebrew: “בלדית אלשמאל”
- Hebrew: “מדינה א-שמאל”
- Hebrew: “מדינה אלשמאל”
- Hebrew: “מדינת א-שמאל”
- Hebrew: “מדינת אלשמאל”
- Hindi: “मदिनत ऐश शमल”
- Indonesian: “Madinat ash-Shamal”
- Italian: “Al Shamal”
- Italian: “Ash Shamal”
- Italian: “Ash-Shamal”
- Italian: “Madinat ash Shamal”
- Japanese: “アッ＝シャマール”
- Japanese: “アッ＝シャマール市”
- Japanese: “マディナ・アッシュ・シャマル”
- Kannada: “ಮಡಿನಾತ್ ಆಶ್ ಶಾಮಲ್”
- Korean: “아시 샤말”
- Korean: “아시샤말”
- Latvian: “Medīnat Eš Šamāla”
- Lithuanian: “Šamalas”
- Lithuanian: “Šiaurės savivaldybė”
- Lombard: “Ash Shamal”
- Macedonian: “Шамал”
- Malay: “Madinat ash Shamal”
- Marathi: “मदिनत आश शामल”
- Mingrelian: “ეშ-შამალიშ მუნიციპალიტეტი”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ash Shamal”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ash-Shamal”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Madinat ash-Shamal”
- Norwegian: “Ash Shamal”
- Persian: “الشمال”
- Persian: “شهرداری الشمال”
- Polish: “Asz-Szamal”
- Polish: “Prowincja Madinat asz-Szamal”
- Portuguese: “Al Shamal”
- Romanian: “Al Shamal”
- Romanian: “Madinat ash Shamal”
- Russian: “Аш-Шамаль”
- Russian: “Эш-Шамаль”
- Sinhala: “මඩිනාට් ඇශ් ශමල්”
- Spanish: “Madinat ash Shamal”
- Spanish: “Municipio de Al Shamal”
- Spanish: “Norte (Catar)”
- Swedish: “Madinat ash Shamal”
- Sylheti: “ꠀꠟ ꠡꠝꠣꠟ”
- Tamil: “மாடினட் ஆஷ் ஷாமல்”
- Tatar: “Әш-Шәмаль муниципалитеты”
- Telugu: “మాడినాట్ ఆష్ షామాల్”
- Thai: “มาดิเนท แอช ชาร์มาล”
- Turkish: “Eş-Şemal belediyesi”
- Turkish: “Eş-Şemal Belediyesi”
- Ukrainian: “Аш-Шамаль”
- Ukrainian: “Еш-Шамаль”
- Urdu: “بلدیہ شمال، قطر”
- Urdu: “بلدیہ شمال”
- Urdu: “میونسپلٹی شمال”
- Vietnamese: “Madinat ash Shamal”
- Western Armenian: “Ալ Շամալ”
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