Doha
Once little more than a minuscule pearl fishing village, Doha, Qatar's capital, with more people than the rest of Qatar combined, has emerged to become one of the pearls of the Middle East.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 1,310,000 residents
- Description: capital of Qatar
- Also known as: “Ad Dawḩa”, “Ad Dawḩah”, “Ad Doha”, “Ad Dowhah”, “Dawḩat al Qaţar”, and “البدع”
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Photo: Francisco Anzola, CC BY 2.0.
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Qatar National Library and Qatar National Museum.
Qatar National Library
Library
Photo: Abdulmutallib1111, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Qatar National Library is a non-profit organization under the umbrella of Qatar Foundation. The plans for the new national library were announced by Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, chairperson of Qatar Foundation, on 19 November 2012, during a ceremony celebrating…
Qatar National Museum
Museum
Photo: Musab.hawamda, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The National Museum of Qatar is a national museum in Doha, Qatar. The current building opened to the public on 28 March 2019, replacing the previous building which opened in 1975.
Souq Waqif
Shopping center
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Souq Waqif is a marketplace in Doha, the capital of Qatar. The souq sells traditional garments, spices, handicrafts, and souvenirs. It is also home to restaurants and shisha lounges.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Onaiza and Al Markhiya.
Onaiza
Suburb
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Onaiza is a north-eastern district of Doha, Qatar. It is located between Al Dafna, Qatar's emerging central business district, and Lusail, a development north of Doha which is set to hold 200,000 residents in the near future.
Al Markhiya
Suburb
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Al Markhiya is a neighborhood of the Qatari capital Doha. It is one of the later-developed areas of northern Doha. The district hosts three awsaq al-furjan complexes, which are part of a public development project to host all commercial establishments in centralized areas.
West Bay
Suburb
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West Bay is an area in Doha, Qatar that encompasses the city's east coast districts, namely, Al Qassar, Al Dafna, West Bay Lagoon, and Onaiza. West Bay includes many modern buildings unlike other, older districts of Doha.
Doha
- Categories: human settlement, largest city, and locality
- Location: Qatar, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
25.2856° or 25° 17′ 8″ northLongitude
51.5264° or 51° 31′ 35″ eastPopulation
1,310,000Elevation
11 metres (36 feet)IATA airport code
DOHUnited Nations Location Code
QA DOHOpen location code
7HQH7GPG+7HOpenStreetMap ID
node 1676664890OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
290030Wikidata ID
Q3861
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Zulu—“Doha” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Doha”
- Afrikaans: “Doha”
- Albanian: “Doha”
- Amharic: “ዶሃ”
- Arabic: “الدوحة”
- Arabic: “اَلدَّوْحَة”
- Aragonese: “Doha”
- Armenian: “Դոհա”
- Arpitan: “Doha”
- Asturian: “Doḥa”
- Awadhi: “दोहा(जगह)”
- Azerbaijani: “Doha”
- Balinese: “Doha”
- Bashkir: “Доһа”
- Basque: “Doha”
- Belarusian: “Доха”
- Bengali: “দোহা”
- Betawi: “Dohah”
- Bishnupriya: “দোহার”
- Bosnian: “Doha”
- Breton: “Doha”
- Bulgarian: “Доха”
- Burmese: “ဒိုဟာမြို့”
- Catalan: “Doha”
- Cebuano: “Doha”
- Central Bikol: “Doha”
- Central Kurdish: “دەوحە”
- Central Kurdish: “دۆحە”
- Chechen: “Доха”
- Chechen: “Духьа”
- Chinese: “Doha”
- Chinese: “多哈”
- Chinese: “杜哈”
- Croatian: “Doha”
- Czech: “Dauhá”
- Danish: “Doha”
- Dimli (individual language): “Dewhe”
- Dimli (individual language): “Doha”
- Dotyali: “दोहा”
- Dutch: “Doha”
- Eastern Mari: “Доха”
- Eastern Mari: “Дохо”
- Egyptian Arabic: “الدوحه”
- Esperanto: “Daŭho”
- Esperanto: “Doho”
- Estonian: “Ad-Dawḩah”
- Estonian: “Doha”
- Extremaduran: “Doha”
- Fiji Hindi: “Doha”
- Finnish: “Doha”
- French: “Doha”
- Fulah: “Doha”
- Galician: “Doha”
- Georgian: “დოჰა”
- German: “Doha”
- Greek: “Ντόχα”
- Guarani: “Doha”
- Gujarati: “દોહા”
- Haitian: “Doha”
- Hakka Chinese: “Doha”
- Hausa: “Doha”
- Hebrew: “דוחא”
- Hebrew: “דוחה”
- Hindi: “दोहा, क़तर”
- Hindi: “दोहा”
- Hungarian: “Doha”
- Icelandic: “Doha”
- Ido: “Doha”
- Iloko: “Doha”
- Indonesian: “Doha”
- Interlingua: “Doha”
- Interlingue: “Doha”
- Irish: “Doha”
- Italian: “Doha”
- Japanese: “ドーハ”
- Javanese: “Doha”
- Kabyle: “Dawḥa”
- Kalaallisut: “Doha”
- Kannada: “ದೊಹಾ”
- Kannada: “ದೋಹಾ”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Doha”
- Kashmiri: “دوحہ”
- Kazakh: “Доха”
- Kazakh: “Доһа”
- Khmer: “ដូហា”
- Kinyarwanda: “Doha”
- Kirghiz: “Доха”
- Komering: “Doha”
- Korean: “도하”
- Kurdish: “Doha”
- Kurdish: “Dohe”
- Lao: “ໂດຮາ”
- Latin: “Doha”
- Latvian: “Doha”
- Ligurian: “Doha”
- Limburgan: “Doha”
- Lithuanian: “Doha”
- Livvi: “Doha”
- Lombard: “Doha”
- Luxembourgish: “Doha”
- Macedonian: “Доха”
- Maithili: “दोहा”
- Malagasy: “Doha”
- Malay: “Doha”
- Malayalam: “ദോഹ”
- Maltese: “Doha”
- Marathi: “दोहा”
- Mazanderani: “دوحه”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Doha”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Doha”
- Minangkabau: “Doha”
- Mingrelian: “დოჰა”
- Moksha: “Дога”
- Mongolian: “Доха”
- Moroccan Arabic: “دوحة”
- Nepali: “दोहा”
- Northern Luri: “دوحه”
- Northern Luri: “دوحە”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Doha”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Doha”
- Norwegian: “Doha”
- Novial: “Doha”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Doha”
- Oriya: “ଦୋହା”
- Ossetian: “Дохæ”
- Panjabi: “ਦੋਹਾ”
- Papiamento: “Doha”
- Persian: “دوحه”
- Piemontese: “Doha”
- Polish: “Ad-Dauha”
- Polish: “Doha”
- Portuguese: “Doha”
- Pushto: “دوحه”
- Pushto: “دوها”
- Romanian: “Doha”
- Russia Buriat: “Доха”
- Russian: “Ад-Доха”
- Russian: “Доха”
- Russian: “Эд-Доха”
- Rusyn: “Довга”
- Rusyn: “Доуга”
- Sakizaya: “Tu-ha”
- Samogitian: “Duoha”
- Santali: “ᱫᱚᱦᱟ”
- Sardinian: “Doha”
- Scots: “Doha”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Doha”
- Serbian: “Doha”
- Serbian: “Доха”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Doha”
- Shona: “Doha”
- Sicilian: “Doha”
- Silesian: “Doha”
- Sindhi: “دوحہ”
- Sinhala: “දෝහා”
- Slovak: “Dauha”
- Slovak: “Dauhá”
- Slovenian: “Doha”
- Somali: “Dooxa”
- South Azerbaijani: “دوحه”
- Spanish: “Doha”
- Swahili: “Doha”
- Swedish: “Doha”
- Sylheti: “ꠖꠥꠢꠣ ꠘꠉꠞ”
- Sylheti: “ꠖꠥꠢꠣ ꠙꠖꠦꠡ”
- Tagalog: “Doha”
- Tajik: “Доҳа”
- Tajik: “Дуҳа”
- Talysh: “Doha”
- Tamil: “தோகா”
- Tamil: “தோஹா”
- Tatar: “Doha”
- Telugu: “దోహా”
- Thai: “โดฮา”
- Tibetan: “དྷོ་ཧ།”
- Turkish: “Doha”
- Turkmen: “Doha”
- Udmurt: “Доха”
- Uighur: “دوھا”
- Ukrainian: “Доха”
- Upper Sorbian: “Doha”
- Urdu: “دوحہ”
- Uzbek: “Doha”
- Uzbek: “Doʻha”
- Venetian: “Doha”
- Veps: “Doh”
- Vietnamese: “Doha”
- Volapük: “Däuha”
- Waray (Philippines): “Doha”
- Welsh: “Doha”
- Western Frisian: “Doha”
- Western Panjabi: “دوحا”
- Western Panjabi: “دوحہ”
- Wu Chinese: “多哈”
- Yiddish: “דאכא”
- Yoruba: “Doha”
- Yue Chinese: “多哈”
- Zeeuws: “Doha”
- Zulu: “i-Doha”
- “Doha”
- “Duoha”
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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 “Doha”. Photo: JamesA, CC BY-SA 3.0.