Al Wakrah
Al-Wakrah is a city in eastern Qatar, just south of Doha. The town has a history independent from that of the capital, but it has developed into a bedroom community of Doha.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Metallic Purple, CC BY 2.0.
Photo: Metallic Purple, CC BY 2.0.
- 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.
Al-Janoub Stadium
Stadium
Photo: Palácio do Planalto, CC BY 2.0.
Al-Janoub Stadium, formerly known as Al-Wakrah Stadium, is a retractable-roof football stadium in al-Wakrah, Qatar that was inaugurated on 16 May 2019.
Saoud bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani Stadium
Stadium
The Saoud bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani Stadium, 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
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Al Wakrah, Qatar, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
25.1567° or 25° 9′ 24″ northLongitude
51.6013° or 51° 36′ 5″ eastPopulation
88,000Elevation
9 metres (30 feet)United Nations Location Code
QA WAKOpen location code
7HQH5J42+MGOpenStreetMap ID
node 1363470272OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Al Wakrah” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الوكرة قطر”
- Arabic: “الوكرة”
- Arabic: “بلدية الوكرة القطرية”
- Arabic: “بلدية الوكرة”
- Arabic: “وكرة”
- Armenian: “Էլ Վակրա”
- Asturian: “Al Wakrah”
- Balinese: “Al Wakrah”
- Basque: “Al Wakrah”
- Belarusian: “Аль-Вакра”
- Belarusian: “Эль-Вакра”
- 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”
- Kannada: “ಅಲ್ ವಕ್ರಾ”
- 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”
- 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”
- Romanian: “Al Wakrah”
- Russian: “Аль-Вакра”
- Russian: “Вакра”
- Russian: “Эль-Вакра”
- Serbian: “Вакра”
- Sinhala: “අල් වක්රා”
- South Azerbaijani: “الوکره”
- Spanish: “Al Wakrah (ciudad)”
- Spanish: “Al Wakrah”
- Spanish: “Al-Wakrah”
- Swedish: “Al-Wakrah”
- Sylheti: “ꠀꠟ ꠅꠣꠇꠞꠣ”
- Sylheti: “ꠅꠣꠇꠞꠣ ꠘꠉꠞ”
- Sylheti: “ꠅꠣꠇꠞꠣ ꠙꠥꠞ”
- Tagalog: “Al Wakrah”
- Tamil: “அல் வக்ரஹ”
- Telugu: “అల్ వాక్రాహ్”
- Thai: “อัล วาครา”
- Turkish: “El Vakra Belediyesi”
- Turkish: “El Vakra”
- Turkish: “Vakrah”
- Turkish: “Vekre”
- Ukrainian: “Аль-Вакра”
- Ukrainian: “Вакра”
- Ukrainian: “Ель-Вакра”
- Urdu: “الوکرہ”
- Vietnamese: “Al Wakrah”
- Western Armenian: “Ալ Ուաքրա”
- Western Panjabi: “الوکرہ”
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