Bahrain

The Kingdom of Bahrain is a archipelago in the Persian Gulf, tucked into a pocket of the sea flanked by and . The kingdom combines modern Arab culture and the archaeological legacy of 5,000 years of civilisation.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations: Manama and Muharraq.

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is the capital and largest city of Bahrain…

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is a metropolitan area in Bahrain, an island…

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is the second-largest city in the Kingdom of Bahrain in terms of area.

Destinations to Discover

Places to explore: Southern Governorate and Hawar Islands.

The has the largest area of the four governorates of Bahrain.

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The are an archipelago of desert…

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Sitra is a town on Sitra island split between the…

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is a planned town located in north-central…

Madinat Hamad or is a primarily commuter city within northern Bahrain.

Places of Interest

Highlights: Mountain of Smoke and Bahrain International Circuit.

Peak
The is a hill in the of Bahrain.

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The is a 5.412…

Aerodrome
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is a military located 3 nautical miles south-southwest of , Bahrain.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Dar Kulaib and Awali.

Town
is a situated in the western part of the Kingdom of Bahrain.

Town
is a small municipality located approximately…

Town
is a village on the western coast of Bahrain.

Bahrain

  • Type: Country with 1,230,000 residents
  • Description: country in the Persian Gulf
  • Also known as: “Al Baḩrayn”, “BAH”, “Bahraain koonǥõskåʹdd”, “Bahráin”, “Bahrain gonagasriika”, “Bahrain kunâgâskodde”, “Bahraina gonagasriika”, “Bahrainin kuningaskunta”, “Bahrajnské kráľovstvo”, “Bahrein Islands”, “Bahreini Királyság”, “Bahreini Kuningriik”, “Bahreyn Krallığı”, “Baxrein”, “bh”, “BH”, “BHR”, “Dawlat al Baḩrayn”, “Dawlat al-Bahrain”, “ISO 3166-1:BH”, “Kingdom of Bahrain”, “Kongedømmet Bahrain”, “Königreich Bahrain”, “Koninkrijk Bahrein”, “Konungariket Bahrain”, “le Royaume de Bahreïn”, “Mamlakat al Baḩrayn”, “Mamlakat al-Baḥrayn”, “Qiraliyeta Behreynê”, “Reĝlando Barejno”, “Regne de Bahrain”, “Regno del Bahrain”, “Reino de Bahrain”, “Reino de Barein”, “Reino de Baréin”, “Reino do Bahrein”, “Reino do Barém”, “Renju tal-Bahrain”, “Royaume de Bahreïn”, “Shekdom of Bahrain”, “State of Bahrain”, “Vương quốc Bahrain”, “Бахрэйн (каралеўства)”, “Каралеўства Бахрэйну”, “Королевство Бахрейн”, “Кралство Бахрейн”, “ממלכת בחריין”, “پادشاهی بحرین”, “बहराइन राज्य”, “பஃரேய்ன்”, “பக்ரைன்”, “பஹ்ரேய்ன்”, “பாகாரேயின்”, “பாரேன்”, “ꠛꠣꠀꠞꠣꠁꠘ”, “ꠛꠣꠞꠣꠁꠘ”, and “バーレーン王国”
  • Languages: Arabic, English, Persian, and Urdu
  • Neighbors: and
  • Categories: sovereign state, island country, archipelago, and locality
  • Location: ,
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Latitude
26.03° or 26° 1′ 48″ north
Longitude
50.55° or 50° 33′ east
Population
1,230,000
Area
665 km² (257 miles²)
Elevation
77 metres (253 feet)
Capital
Currency
Dinar (BHD)
Phone code
973
Internet domain
.bh
IATA airport code
BAH
UN/LOCODE
BH BAH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 424297207
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­country
Geo­Names ID
290291
Wiki­data ID
Q398
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Bahrain” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Баҳреин”
  • Achinese: “Bahrain”
  • Adyghe: “Бахрейн”
  • Afrikaans: “Bahrein”
  • Akan: “Baren”
  • Albanian: “Bahraini”
  • Albanian: “Bahrein”
  • Albanian: “Bahreini”
  • Albanian: “Bahrejn”
  • Amharic: “ባህሬን”
  • Amharic: “ባሕሬን”
  • Amis: “Bahrain”
  • Angika: “बहरीन”
  • Arabic: “البحرين”
  • Arabic: “دَوْلَة اَلْبَحْرَيْن”
  • Arabic: “مملكة البحرين”
  • Aragonese: “Bahrein”
  • Armenian: “Բահրեյն”
  • Arpitan: “Bahreyin”
  • Arpitan: “Bahrèyin”
  • Arpitan: “fd”
  • Assamese: “বাহৰেইন”
  • Asturian: “Bahrein”
  • Asturian: “Baḥréin”
  • Atayal: “Bahrain”
  • Avaric: “БахӀрайн”
  • Awadhi: “बहराइन”
  • Aymara: “Bahrayn”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bahreyn”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bəhreyn”
  • Balinese: “Bahrain”
  • Bambara: “Bareyini”
  • Bashkir: “Бәхрәйн”
  • Basque: “Bahrain”
  • Bavarian: “Bahrain”
  • Belarusian: “Бахрэйн”
  • Bengali: “বাহরাইন”
  • Bengali: “বাহারিন”
  • Betawi: “Bahrén”
  • Bhojpuri: “बहरीन”
  • Bishnupriya: “বাহরাইন”
  • Bosnian: “Bahrein”
  • Brahui: “Baeren”
  • Breton: “Bahrein”
  • Buginese: “Bahrain”
  • Buginese: “ᨅᨖᨑᨕᨗᨊ”
  • Bulgarian: “Бахрейн”
  • Burmese: “ဘာရိန်း”
  • Burmese: “ဘာရိန်းနိုင်ငံ”
  • Catalan: “Bahrain”
  • Cebuano: “Bahrayn”
  • Cebuano: “Bareyn”
  • Central Bikol: “Baharein”
  • Central Bikol: “Bahrein”
  • Central Kurdish: “بەحرەین”
  • Chavacano: “Bahréin”
  • Chechen: “Бахрейн”
  • Chechen: “Бахьрайн”
  • Cherokee: “ᏆᎭᎴᎢᏂ”
  • Chinese: “Bālín”
  • Chinese: “巴林”
  • Chuvash: “Бахрейн”
  • Cornish: “Bahreyn”
  • Corsican: “Bareine”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Bahreyn”
  • Croatian: “Bahrein”
  • Czech: “Bahrajn”
  • Dagbani: “Bahrain”
  • Danish: “Bahrain”
  • Dhivehi: “ބަޙްރައިން”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Behreyn”
  • Dotyali: “बहराइन”
  • Dutch: “Bahrein”
  • Dzongkha: “བཧ་རེན་”
  • Dzongkha: “བཧ་རེན”
  • Dzongkha: “བྷ་རེན”
  • Eastern Mari: “Бахрейн”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “البحرين”
  • Erzya: “Бахрейн Мастор”
  • Esperanto: “Barejno”
  • Estonian: “Bahrein”
  • Ewe: “Bahrain nutome”
  • Extremaduran: “Bahrein”
  • Faroese: “Bahrain”
  • Faroese: “Barain”
  • Faroese: “Barein”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Bahrain”
  • Finnish: “Bahrain”
  • French: “Bahreïn”
  • Fulah: “Bahreyn”
  • Gagauz: “Bahreyn”
  • Galician: “Bahrain”
  • Galician: “Bahrein”
  • Ganda: “Baareeni”
  • Georgian: “ბაჰრეინი”
  • German: “Bahrain”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Bahrain”
  • Gilaki: “بحرین”
  • Goan Konkani: “Bahrain”
  • Goan Konkani: “बहरैन”
  • Goan Konkani: “बाहरेन”
  • Gorontalo: “Bahrain”
  • Greek: “Μπαχρέιν”
  • Guarani: “Varéĩ”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Baréyn”
  • Gujarati: “બહેરીન”
  • Gujarati: “બેહરીન”
  • Haitian: “Barayn”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Bahrain”
  • Hausa: “Baharain”
  • Hausa: “Baharan”
  • Hausa: “Baharen”
  • Hawaiian: “Baharaina”
  • Hebrew: “בחריין”
  • Hebrew: “בחרין”
  • Hindi: “बहरीन”
  • Hindi: “बाहरेन”
  • Hungarian: “Bahrain”
  • Hungarian: “Bahrein”
  • Icelandic: “Barein”
  • Ido: “Bahrain”
  • Igbo: “Bahrain”
  • Iloko: “Bahrain”
  • Iloko: “Bahrayn”
  • Inari Sami: “Bahrain”
  • Indonesian: “Bahrain”
  • Interlingua: “Bahrain”
  • Interlingua: “Bahrein”
  • Interlingue: “Bahrain”
  • Irish: “Bairéin”
  • Italian: “Bahrain”
  • Italian: “Bahrein”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Baarien”
  • Japanese: “バーレーン”
  • Javanese: “Bahrain”
  • Kabardian: “Бахрейн”
  • Kabuverdianu: “Barain”
  • Kabyle: “Beḥrin”
  • Kadazan Dusun: “Bahrain”
  • Kalaallisut: “Bahrain”
  • Kalmyk: “Бахрейнин Нутг”
  • Kannada: “ಬಹರೇನ್”
  • Kannada: “ಬಹರೈನ್”
  • Kannada: “ಬಹ್ರೇನ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Baxreyn”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Бахрейн”
  • Karekare: “Baharen”
  • Kashmiri: “بحرین”
  • Kashmiri: “بحریٖن”
  • Kashmiri: “बहरैन”
  • Kashubian: “Bahrajn”
  • Kazakh: “Бахрейн”
  • Khmer: “បារ៉ែន”
  • Kikuyu: “Bahareni”
  • Kikuyu: “Bahrain”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Bahirayini”
  • Kirghiz: “Бахрейн”
  • Kölsch: “Bachrein”
  • Komering: “Bahrain”
  • Komi-Permyak: “Бахрейн”
  • Komi: “Бахрейн”
  • Kongo: “Bahrain”
  • Korean: “바레인”
  • Kurdish: “Behreyn”
  • Kurdish: “بەحرەین”
  • Ladin: “Bahrain”
  • Ladin: “Bahrein”
  • Ladino: “Bahrein”
  • Lao: “ບາເຣນ”
  • Lao: “ບາເລນ”
  • Lao: “ປະເທດບາເຣນ”
  • Latin: “Baharina”
  • Latvian: “Bahreina”
  • Lezghian: “Багьрейн”
  • Ligurian: “Bahrain”
  • Limburgan: “Bahrein”
  • Lingala: “Bahrein”
  • Lingala: “Bahreïn”
  • Lingala: “Bahrɛnɛ”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Barain”
  • Literary Chinese: “巴林”
  • Lithuanian: “Bahreinas”
  • Livvi: “Bahrein”
  • Lombard: “Bahrain”
  • Low German: “Bagraain”
  • Low German: “Bahrain”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Bahrajn”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Bahrene”
  • Lule Sami: “Bahrájnna”
  • Luxembourgish: “Bahrain”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Bahrein”
  • Macedonian: “Бахрaин”
  • Macedonian: “Бахреин”
  • Madurese: “Bahrain”
  • Magahi: “बहराइन”
  • Maithili: “बहराइन”
  • Maithili: “बहाराइन”
  • Malagasy: “Baharainy”
  • Malagasy: “Bahrain”
  • Malagasy: “Bareina”
  • Malay: “Bahrain”
  • Malayalam: “ബഹ്റിൻ”
  • Malayalam: “ബഹ്റൈന്‍”
  • Malayalam: “ബഹ്റൈൻ”
  • Maltese: “Bahrain”
  • Maltese: “Baħrajn”
  • Maltese: “Baħrejn”
  • Maltese: “il-Bahrain”
  • Manipuri: “ꯕꯥꯍꯔꯦꯟ”
  • Manx: “Bahrain”
  • Maori: “Pāreina”
  • Marathi: “बहरैन”
  • Marathi: “बहारीन”
  • Mazanderani: “بحرین”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Bahrain”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Bahrain”
  • Minangkabau: “Bahrain”
  • Mingrelian: “ბაჰრეინი”
  • Mirandese: “Bahrein”
  • Moksha: “Бахрэйн”
  • Mongolian: “Бахрейн”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “لبحرين”
  • Nauru: “Bahrain”
  • Nepali: “बहराइन”
  • Nepali: “बाह्रेन”
  • Newari: “बहरिन”
  • Nigerian Pidgin: “Bahrain”
  • North Ndebele: “Bhahareni”
  • Northern Frisian: “Bachrain”
  • Northern Luri: “بحرین”
  • Northern Sami: “Bahrain”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bahrain”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bahrein”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bahrain”
  • Norwegian: “Bahrain”
  • Novial: “Barayn”
  • Nupe-Nupe-Tako: “Bahrain”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Bahrain”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Bahrayn”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Barein”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܒܚܪܝܢ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Bahrain”
  • Oriya: “ବାହାରିନ”
  • Oriya: “ବାହାରିନ୍”
  • Oromo: “Baahireen”
  • Ossetian: “Бахрейн”
  • Pali: “बहरैन”
  • Pampanga: “Barein”
  • Panjabi: “ਬਹਿਰੀਨ”
  • Papiamento: “Bahrein”
  • Persian: “بحرین”
  • Piemontese: “Bahrain”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Barain”
  • Polish: “Bahrajn”
  • Portuguese: “Bahrain”
  • Portuguese: “Bahrein”
  • Portuguese: “Barein”
  • Portuguese: “Barém”
  • Pushto: “بحرين”
  • Pushto: “بحرین”
  • Quechua: “Bahrayn”
  • Quechua: “Baréin”
  • Quechua: “Paqrayin”
  • Romanian: “Bahrain”
  • Romanian: “Bahrein”
  • Romansh: “Bahrain”
  • Rundi: “Bahareyini”
  • Russia Buriat: “Бахрейн”
  • Russia Buriat: “Баһрэйн”
  • Russian: “Бахрейн”
  • Rusyn: “Бахрейн”
  • Sakizaya: “Bahrain”
  • Samoan: “Bahrain”
  • Samoan: “Pareina”
  • Samogitian: “Bahreins”
  • Sango: “Bahrâina”
  • Sanskrit: “बहरैन”
  • Santali: “ᱵᱟᱦᱚᱨᱟᱭᱤᱱ”
  • Saraiki: “بحرین”
  • Sardinian: “Bahrein”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Bahrain”
  • Scots: “Bahrain”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Bachrain”
  • Serbian: “Bahrein”
  • Serbian: “Бахреин”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bahrein”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းပႃႇရဵၼ်း”
  • Shona: “Bahareni”
  • Shona: “Bahrain”
  • Shona: “Bhahareyini”
  • Sicilian: “Bahrain”
  • Silesian: “Bahrajn”
  • Sindhi: “بحرين”
  • Sinhala: “බහරේනය”
  • Sinhala: “බහරේන්”
  • Skolt Sami: “Bahrainn”
  • Slovak: “Bahrajn”
  • Slovenian: “Bahrajn”
  • Somali: “Baxrayn”
  • Somali: “Baxreyn”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بحرئین”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بحرین”
  • Spanish: “Bahréin”
  • Spanish: “Baréin”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴱⴰⵃⵔⵉⵏ”
  • Sundanese: “Bahrain”
  • Swahili: “Bahareni”
  • Swahili: “Bahrain”
  • Swati: “IBhaharayi”
  • Swedish: “Bahrain”
  • Swiss German: “Bahrain”
  • Sylheti: “ꠛꠣꠢꠞꠣꠁꠘ”
  • Tachelhit: “Lbaḥrin”
  • Tagalog: “Bahrain”
  • Tagalog: “Barein”
  • Tajik: “Баҳрайн”
  • Talysh: “Bəhrejn”
  • Talysh: “Bəhreyn”
  • Tamil: “பகுரைன்”
  • Tamil: “பகுறைன்”
  • Tamil: “பஹ்ரைன்”
  • Taroko: “Bahrain”
  • Tatar: “Бәхрәйн”
  • Telugu: “బహరేన్”
  • Telugu: “బహ్రయిన్”
  • Telugu: “బహ్రెయిన్”
  • Tetum: “Barein”
  • Thai: “บาห์เรน”
  • Thai: “ประเทศบาห์เรน”
  • Tibetan: “བྷཧ་རཡིན།”
  • Tibetan: “བྷཱ་རེན།”
  • Tigrinya: “ባህሬን”
  • Tigrinya: “ባሕሬን”
  • Tok Pisin: “Bahrain”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Paleini”
  • Tsonga: “Bahrain”
  • Tulu: “ಬಹ್ರೇನ್”
  • Tumbuka: “Bahrain”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “البحرين”
  • Turkish: “Bahreyn”
  • Turkmen: “Bahreýn”
  • Twi: “Bahrain”
  • Udmurt: “Бахрейн”
  • Uighur: “بەھرەين”
  • Uighur: “بەھرەيىن”
  • Uighur: “بەھرېيىن”
  • Ukrainian: “Бахрейн”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Bahrain”
  • Urdu: “بحرین”
  • Uzbek: “Bahrayn”
  • Venetian: “Bahrein”
  • Veps: “Bahrein”
  • Vietnamese: “Ba-ren”
  • Vietnamese: “Bahrain”
  • Vlaams: “Bahreyn”
  • Vlax Romani: “Bahrain”
  • Volapük: “Bahruäns”
  • Võro: “Bahrein”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Barein”
  • Welsh: “Bahrain”
  • Western Armenian: “Պահրէյն”
  • Western Balochi: “بهرین”
  • Western Frisian: “Bachrein”
  • Western Frisian: “Bahrein”
  • Western Frisian: “De Barein”
  • Western Panjabi: “بحرین”
  • Wolof: “Bahrayni”
  • Wolof: “Bahreyin”
  • Wu Chinese: “巴林”
  • Yakut: “Баhрейн”
  • Yiddish: “באכריין”
  • Yoruba: “Báháráìnì”
  • Yoruba: “Báránì”
  • Yoruba: “Orílẹ́ède Báránì”
  • Yue Chinese: “巴林”
  • Zeeuws: “Bahrein”
  • Zhuang: “Bahrain”
  • Zulu: “i-Bahrain”
  • “Bahrein”
  • “ma Palani”
  • “ma Palen”
  • “बहरीन”

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