Dukhan
Dukhan is an industrial city in the western reaches of Qatar. Dukhan was founded when oil was first discovered in the region, and its purpose has not changed since.
- Type: Town with 7,250 residents
- Description: city of Qatar
- Also known as: “Al Khathiyah”, “Dukhkhān”, “Ghāriyat Adkhān”, “Ghāriyat Dukhān”, “Духан (город)”, “مدينة دخان”, “ꠖꠥꠇꠣꠘ”, “杜坎”, and “杜罕”
Dukhan
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Al Shahaniyah, Qatar, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
25.4189° or 25° 25′ 8″ north
Longitude
50.7876° or 50° 47′ 15″ east
Population
7,250
Elevation
33 metres (108 feet)
UN/LOCODE
QA DHN
Open location code
7HQGCQ9Q+G2
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Dukhan” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Dukhan”
- Arabic: “دخان”
- Arabic: “دُخَان”
- Aragonese: “Dukhan”
- Arpitan: “Dukhan”
- Asturian: “Dukhan”
- Basque: “Dukhan”
- Bavarian: “Dukhan”
- Bengali: “দুখান”
- Breton: “Dukhan”
- Catalan: “Dukhan”
- Cebuano: “Dukhān”
- Chinese: “杜汉”
- Corsican: “Dukhan”
- Croatian: “Dukhan”
- Czech: “Dukhan”
- Danish: “Dukhan”
- Dutch: “Dukhan”
- Egyptian Arabic: “دخان”
- Esperanto: “Dukhan”
- Estonian: “Dukhan”
- Finnish: “Dukhan”
- French: “Dukhan”
- Friulian: “Dukhan”
- Galician: “Dukhan”
- German: “Dukhan”
- Hausa: “Dukhan”
- Hebrew: “דוח’אן (עיר)”
- Hebrew: “דוקהאן”
- Hungarian: “Dukhan”
- Icelandic: “Dukhan”
- Ido: “Dukhan”
- Indonesian: “Dukhan”
- Interlingua: “Dukhan”
- Interlingue: “Dukhan”
- Irish: “Dukhan”
- Italian: “Dukhan”
- Japanese: “ドゥハーン”
- Jèrriais: “Dukhan”
- Kongo: “Dukhan”
- Ligurian: “Dukhan”
- Limburgan: “Dukhan”
- Low German: “Dukhan”
- Luxembourgish: “Dukhan”
- Malagasy: “Dukhan”
- Malay: “Dukhan”
- Mazanderani: “دخان (شهر)”
- Mazanderani: “دخان”
- Minangkabau: “Dukhan”
- Neapolitan: “Dukhan”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Dukhan”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dukhan”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Dukhan”
- Persian: “دخان”
- Picard: “Dukhan”
- Piemontese: “Dukhan”
- Polish: “Duchan”
- Portuguese: “Dukhan”
- Romanian: “Dukhan”
- Romansh: “Dukhan”
- Russian: “Духан”
- Sardinian: “Dukhan”
- Scots: “Dukhan”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Dukhan”
- Serbian: “Dukhan”
- Sicilian: “Dukhan”
- Slovak: “Dukhan”
- Slovenian: “Dukhan”
- Spanish: “Dukhan”
- Swahili: “Dukhan”
- Swedish: “Dukhan”
- Swiss German: “Dukhan”
- Sylheti: “ꠖꠥꠈꠣꠘ”
- Tagalog: “Dukhan”
- Tamil: “துக்கான்”
- Turkish: “Duhan”
- Urdu: “دخان (شہر)”
- Urdu: “دخان”
- Venetian: “Dukhan”
- Vietnamese: “Dukhan”
- Vlaams: “Dukhan”
- Volapük: “Dukhan”
- Walloon: “Dukhan”
- Welsh: “Dukhan”
- Wolof: “Dukhan”
- Zulu: “Dukhan”
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