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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 include Manama and Muharraq.

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is the capital and largest city of Bahrain, with its 700,000 people representing nearly half the country's population. Overshadowed by its brash Gulf neighbors and , it's often overlooked as a travel destination, but this clean, modern and safe city offers a quieter, gentler introduction to the Gulf way of life.

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is a metropolitan area in Bahrain, an island connected to the northeast of the capital of .

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is the second-largest city in the Kingdom of Bahrain in terms of area. The city is divided into three parts: East , West and North .

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Southern Governorate and Hawar Islands.

The has the largest area of the four governorates of Bahrain. It includes parts of Bahrain's old municipalities – Al Mintaqah al Gharbiyah, Ar Rifa' wa al Mintaqah al Janubiyah, and .

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The are an archipelago of desert islands; all but one are owned by Bahrain, while the southern, small, and uninhabited Jinan Island is administered by as part of its municipality.

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is in Bahrain. It is famous for its traditional marketplace.

Madinat Hamad or is a primarily commuter city within northern Bahrain. It was a municipality of Bahrain in the central part of the country. Split from the municipality of Ar Rifa' wa al Mintaqah al Janubiyah in 1991, its territory is now in the .

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mountain of Smoke and Bahrain International Circuit.

Peak
The is a hill in the of Bahrain. At 134 m above mean sea level, it is the country's highest point. The is named as such because of the haze which often surrounds it on humid days.

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The is a 5.412 km motorsport venue opened in 2004 and used for drag racing, GP2 Series, and the annual Formula One Bahrain Grand Prix.

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is a public-use and military located 3 nautical miles south-southwest of , Bahrain. The airbase itself was built for the Bahrain International Airshow, held every two years in November.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Dar Kulaib and Awali.

Town
is a situated in the western part of the Kingdom of Bahrain. The village is close to the , where the Bahrain Grand Prix takes place annually.

Town
is a small municipality located approximately in the centre of the Kingdom of Bahrain, a small island in the . Founded in the 1930s by the Bahrain Petroleum Company, it is populated mostly by workers of various nationalities from around the world whose skills were needed in the setting up and running of the refinery at Sitrah.

Town
is a village on the western coast of Bahrain. was the home to the Al-Dawasir, Al-Zeabi and Al-Gahtam and Al-Seddiqi tribes in Bahrain together with and .

Bahrain

  • Type: Country with 1,230,000 residents
  • Description: country in the Persian Gulf
  • Also known as: “Al Baḩrayn”, “BAH”, “Bahrein Islands”, “bh”, “Dawlat al Baḩrayn”, “Dawlat al-Bahrain”, “ISO 3166-1:BH”, “Kingdom of Bahrain”, “Mamlakat al Baḩrayn”, “Mamlakat al-Baḥrayn”, “Shekdom of Bahrain”, and “State of Bahrain”
  • 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
.bh
Internet domain
973
IATA airport code
BAH
United Nations Location Code
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”
  • Amis: “Parin”
  • 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: “Bahréin”
  • Asturian: “Baḥréin”
  • Atayal: “Bahrain”
  • Avaric: “БахӀрайн”
  • Awadhi: “बहराइन”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bahreyn”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bəhreyn”
  • Balinese: “Bahrain”
  • Bambara: “Bareyini”
  • Bashkir: “Бәхрәйн”
  • Basque: “Bahrain”
  • Bavarian: “Bahrain”
  • Belarusian: “Бахрэйн (каралеўства)”
  • Belarusian: “Бахрэйн”
  • Belarusian: “Каралеўства Бахрэйну”
  • Bengali: “বাহরাইন”
  • Bengali: “বাহারিন”
  • Betawi: “Bahrén”
  • Bhojpuri: “बहरीन”
  • Bishnupriya: “বাহরাইন”
  • Bosnian: “Bahrein”
  • Bosnian: “bh”
  • Brahui: “Baeren”
  • Breton: “Bahrein”
  • Buginese: “Bahrain”
  • Buginese: “ᨅᨖᨑᨕᨗᨊ”
  • Bulgarian: “Бахрейн”
  • Bulgarian: “Кралство Бахрейн”
  • Burmese: “ဘာရိန်း”
  • Burmese: “ဘာရိန်းနိုင်ငံ”
  • Catalan: “Bahrain”
  • Catalan: “Regne de Bahrain”
  • Cebuano: “Bahrayn”
  • Cebuano: “Bareyn”
  • Central Bikol: “Baharein”
  • Central Bikol: “Bahrein”
  • Central Kurdish: “بەحرەین”
  • Chavacano: “Bahréin”
  • Chechen: “Бахрейн”
  • Chechen: “Бахьрайн”
  • Cherokee: “ᏆᎭᎴᎢᏂ”
  • Chinese: “Bahrain”
  • 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”
  • Dutch: “BH”
  • Dutch: “BHR”
  • Dutch: “Koninkrijk Bahrein”
  • Dzongkha: “བཧ་རེན་”
  • Dzongkha: “བཧ་རེན”
  • Dzongkha: “བྷ་རེན”
  • Eastern Mari: “Бахрейн”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “البحرين”
  • Erzya: “Бахрейн Мастор”
  • Esperanto: “BAH”
  • Esperanto: “Barejno”
  • Esperanto: “BH”
  • Esperanto: “Reĝlando Barejno”
  • Estonian: “Bahrein”
  • Estonian: “Bahreini Kuningriik”
  • Ewe: “Bahrain nutome”
  • Extremaduran: “Bahrein”
  • Faroese: “Bahrain”
  • Faroese: “Barain”
  • Faroese: “Barein”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Bahrain”
  • Finnish: “Bahrain”
  • Finnish: “Bahrainin kuningaskunta”
  • French: “Bahreïn”
  • French: “BH”
  • French: “le Royaume de Bahreïn”
  • French: “Royaume de Bahreïn”
  • Fulah: “Bahreyn”
  • Gagauz: “Bahreyn”
  • Galician: “Bahrain”
  • Galician: “Bahrein”
  • Galician: “Reino de Bahrain”
  • Ganda: “Baareeni”
  • Georgian: “ბაჰრეინი”
  • German: “Bahrain”
  • German: “Bahrein”
  • German: “Königreich Bahrain”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Bahrain”
  • Gilaki: “بحرین”
  • Goan Konkani: “Bahrain”
  • Goan Konkani: “बहरैन”
  • 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”
  • Hebrew: “ממלכת בחריין”
  • Hindi: “बहरीन”
  • Hindi: “बाहरेन”
  • Hungarian: “Bahrain”
  • Hungarian: “Bahrein”
  • Hungarian: “Bahreini Királyság”
  • Icelandic: “Barein”
  • Ido: “Bahrain”
  • Igbo: “Bahrain”
  • Iloko: “Bahrain”
  • Iloko: “Bahrayn”
  • Inari Sami: “Bahrain kunâgâskodde”
  • Inari Sami: “Bahrain”
  • Indonesian: “Bahrain”
  • Interlingua: “Bahrain”
  • Interlingua: “Bahrein”
  • Interlingue: “Bahrain”
  • Irish: “Bairéin”
  • Italian: “Bahrain”
  • Italian: “Bahrein”
  • Italian: “Regno del Bahrain”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Baarien”
  • Japanese: “バーレーン”
  • Japanese: “バーレーン王国”
  • Javanese: “Bahrain”
  • Kabardian: “Бахрейн”
  • Kabuverdianu: “Barain”
  • Kabyle: “Beḥrin”
  • Kadazan Dusun: “Bahrain”
  • Kalaallisut: “Bahrain”
  • Kalmyk: “Бахрейнин Нутг”
  • Kannada: “ಬಹರೇನ್”
  • Kannada: “ಬಹರೈನ್”
  • Kannada: “ಬಹ್ರೇನ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Baxrein”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Baxreyn”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Бахрейн”
  • 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: “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”
  • Low German: “Bahrein”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Bahrajn”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Bahrene”
  • Luxembourgish: “Bahrain”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Bahrein”
  • Macedonian: “Бахрaин”
  • Macedonian: “Бахреин”
  • Madurese: “Bahrain”
  • 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”
  • Maltese: “Renju tal-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 gonagasriika”
  • Northern Sami: “Bahrain”
  • Northern Sami: “Bahraina gonagasriika”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bahrain”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bahrein”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kongedømmet Bahrain”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bahrain”
  • Norwegian: “Bahrain”
  • Novial: “Barayn”
  • 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: “Bahrain”
  • Pampanga: “Barein”
  • Panjabi: “ਬਹਿਰੀਨ”
  • Papiamento: “Bahrein”
  • Persian: “بحرین”
  • Piemontese: “Bahrain”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Barain”
  • Polish: “Bahrajn”
  • Portuguese: “Bahrain”
  • Portuguese: “Bahrein”
  • Portuguese: “Barein”
  • Portuguese: “Bareine”
  • Portuguese: “Barém”
  • Portuguese: “Reino do Bahrein”
  • Portuguese: “Reino do 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”
  • Russian: “Королевство 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: “Bahraain koonǥõskåʹdd”
  • Skolt Sami: “Bahrainn”
  • Slovak: “Bahrajn”
  • Slovak: “Bahrajnské kráľovstvo”
  • Slovenian: “Bahrajn”
  • Somali: “Baxrayn”
  • Somali: “Baxreyn”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بحرئین”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بحرین”
  • Spanish: “Bahrain”
  • Spanish: “Bahráin”
  • Spanish: “Bahrein”
  • Spanish: “Bahréin”
  • Spanish: “Barein”
  • Spanish: “Baréin”
  • Spanish: “Reino de Barein”
  • Spanish: “Reino de Baréin”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴱⴰⵃⵔⵉⵏ”
  • Sundanese: “Bahrain”
  • Swahili: “Bahareni”
  • Swahili: “Bahrain”
  • Swati: “IBhaharayi”
  • Swedish: “Bahrain”
  • Swedish: “Bahrein”
  • Swedish: “Konungariket Bahrain”
  • Swiss German: “Bahrain”
  • Sylheti: “ꠛꠣꠀꠞꠣꠁꠘ”
  • Sylheti: “ꠛꠣꠞꠣꠁꠘ”
  • Sylheti: “ꠛꠣꠢꠞꠣꠁꠘ”
  • Tachelhit: “Lbaḥrin”
  • Tagalog: “Bahrain”
  • Tagalog: “Barein”
  • Tajik: “Баҳрайн”
  • Talysh: “Bəhrejn”
  • Talysh: “Bəhreyn”
  • Tamil: “பஃரேய்ன்”
  • Tamil: “பகுரைன்”
  • Tamil: “பகுறைன்”
  • Tamil: “பக்ரைன்”
  • Tamil: “பஹ்ரேய்ன்”
  • Tamil: “பஹ்ரைன்”
  • Tamil: “பாகாரேயின்”
  • Tamil: “பாரேன்”
  • 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”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Bahrain”
  • Tsonga: “Bahrain”
  • Tumbuka: “Bahrain”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “البحرين”
  • Turkish: “Bahreyn Krallığı”
  • 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: “BAH”
  • Vietnamese: “Bahrain”
  • Vietnamese: “bh”
  • Vietnamese: “Vương quốc 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”
  • “BAH”
  • “Bahrain”
  • “Bahrein”
  • “Bahreins”
  • “BH”
  • “BHR”
  • “ma Palani”
  • “बहरीन”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Bahrain”. Photo: Peter, CC BY 2.0.