Al Wakrah

Al-Wakrah is a city in eastern , just south of . The town has a history independent from that of the capital, but it has developed into a bedroom community of Doha.
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  • Type: Town with 88,000 residents
  • Description: the capital city of the Al Wakrah Municipality in Qatar
  • Also known as: “Al Waqra”, “Al Waqrah”, “Al-Wakrah”, “Wakrah”, and “Waqra”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Al-Janoub Stadium and Saoud bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani Stadium.

Stadium
Photo: Palácio do Planalto, CC BY 2.0.
, formerly known as Al-Wakrah Stadium, is a retractable-roof football stadium in al-Wakrah, that was inaugurated on 16 May 2019.

Stadium
The , also known as Al-Wakrah SC Stadium, is a multi-purpose stadium in Al Wakrah, Qatar. It is currently used mostly for football matches.

Al Wakrah

Latitude
25.1567° or 25° 9′ 24″ north
Longitude
51.6013° or 51° 36′ 5″ east
Population
88,000
Elevation
9 metres (30 feet)
United Nations Location Code
QA WAK
Open location code
7HQH5J42+MG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1363470272
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
289915
Wiki­data ID
Q310893
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Western Panjabi—“Al Wakrah” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “አል ዋክራ”
  • Arabic: “الوكرة قطر”
  • Arabic: “الوكرة”
  • Arabic: “بلدية الوكرة القطرية”
  • Arabic: “بلدية الوكرة”
  • Arabic: “وكرة”
  • Armenian: “Էլ Վակրա”
  • Asturian: “Al Wakrah”
  • Azerbaijani: “Al Wakrah”
  • Balinese: “Al Wakrah”
  • Basque: “Al Wakrah”
  • Belarusian: “Аль-Вакра”
  • Belarusian: “Эль-Вакра”
  • Bengali: “আল ওয়াকরা”
  • Bengali: “আল ওয়াকরাহ”
  • Bulgarian: “Ал-Уакра”
  • Bulgarian: “Уакра”
  • Catalan: “Al Wakrah”
  • Catalan: “Al-Wakrah”
  • Cebuano: “Al Wakrah”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئەلوەکرا”
  • Chinese: “沃克拉”
  • Czech: “Al Wakrah”
  • Czech: “Al-Wakra”
  • Danish: “Al Wakrah”
  • Dutch: “Al Wakrah”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “الوكره”
  • Esperanto: “Al Wakrah”
  • Esperanto: “Al-Wakrah”
  • Finnish: “Al-Wakra”
  • Finnish: “Al-Wakrah”
  • French: “Al Wakrah (ville)”
  • French: “Al Wakrah”
  • French: “Al-Wakrah”
  • German: “Al Wakra”
  • German: “Al Wakrah”
  • German: “Al-Wakra”
  • German: “Al-Wakrah”
  • Greek: “Αλ Γουάκρα”
  • Greek: “Αλ Ουάκρα”
  • Gujarati: “અલ વક્ર્રાહ”
  • Hausa: “Al Wakrah”
  • Hebrew: “אל-וכרה”
  • Hindi: “अल वकरा”
  • Hungarian: “Al-Vakra”
  • Indonesian: “Al Wakrah”
  • Indonesian: “Al-Wakrah”
  • Irish: “Al Wakrah”
  • Italian: “Al Wakrah”
  • Japanese: “アル・ワクラ”
  • Japanese: “アル＝ワクラ”
  • Japanese: “アル=ワクラ市”
  • Japanese: “アル＝ワクラ市”
  • Japanese: “アルワクラ”
  • Javanese: “Al Wakrah”
  • Kannada: “ಅಲ್ ವಕ್ರಾ”
  • Kazakh: “Әл-Вакра”
  • Kirghiz: “Әл-Вакра”
  • Korean: “알 와크라”
  • Korean: “알와크라”
  • Latvian: “Vakra”
  • Lithuanian: “Vakra”
  • Lombard: “Al Wakrah”
  • Macedonian: “Вакра”
  • Malay: “Al Wakrah”
  • Marathi: “अल वक्र्राह”
  • Mazanderani: “الوکره”
  • Mingrelian: “ელ-ვაკრა”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Al Wakrah”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Al Wakrah”
  • Oromo: “Al Wakrah”
  • Panjabi: “ਅਲ ਵਕਰਾ”
  • Persian: “الوكرة”
  • Persian: “الوکره (شهر)”
  • Persian: “الوکره”
  • Polish: “Al Wakrah”
  • Polish: “Al-Wakra”
  • Polish: “Al-Wakrah”
  • Polish: “Prowincja Al Wakrah”
  • Polish: “Wakra”
  • Portuguese: “Al Wakrah”
  • Portuguese: “Al-Wakrah”
  • Pushto: “الوكرة”
  • Romanian: “Al Wakrah”
  • Russian: “Аль-Вакра”
  • Russian: “Вакра”
  • Russian: “Эль-Вакра”
  • Serbian: “Вакра”
  • Sinhala: “අල් වක්‍රා”
  • Somali: “Al Wakrah”
  • South Azerbaijani: “الوکره”
  • Spanish: “Al Wakrah (ciudad)”
  • Spanish: “Al Wakrah”
  • Spanish: “Al-Wakrah”
  • Swahili: “Al Wakrah”
  • Swedish: “Al-Wakrah”
  • Sylheti: “ꠀꠟ ꠅꠣꠇꠞꠣ”
  • Sylheti: “ꠅꠣꠇꠞꠣ ꠘꠉꠞ”
  • Sylheti: “ꠅꠣꠇꠞꠣ ꠙꠥꠞ”
  • Tagalog: “Al Wakrah”
  • Tajik: “Аль-Вакра”
  • Tamil: “அல் வக்ரஹ”
  • Tatar: “Әл-Вакра”
  • Telugu: “అల్ వాక్రాహ్”
  • Thai: “อัล วาครา”
  • Turkish: “Al Wakrah”
  • Turkish: “El Vakra Belediyesi”
  • Turkish: “El Vakra”
  • Turkish: “Vakrah”
  • Turkish: “Vekre”
  • Ukrainian: “Аль-Вакра”
  • Ukrainian: “Вакра”
  • Ukrainian: “Ель-Вакра”
  • Urdu: “الوکرہ”
  • Uzbek: “Al Wakrah”
  • Vietnamese: “Al Wakrah”
  • Western Armenian: “Ալ Ուաքրա”
  • Western Panjabi: “الوکرہ”

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