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Qatar

Qatar is a rich Arab state occupying a small peninsula extending into the Persian Gulf to the north of . Many come to the Middle East seeking the mystic, traditional life of the Bedouins, wandering the desert with their life's belongings on a camel's back.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Doha and Al Wakrah.

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Once little more than a minuscule pearl fishing village, , Qatar's capital, with more people than the rest of Qatar combined, has emerged to become one of the pearls of the .

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is a city in eastern Qatar, just south of . The town has a history independent from that of the capital, but it has developed into a bedroom community of Doha.

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is the main airport of and the busiest in Qatar. It is the main hub and central transit point of state-owned carrier Qatar Airways, which makes up more than 90% of its commercial air traffic.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Al Khor and Al Shamal.

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Perched on the eastern coast of the Qatari peninsula, is a major settlement just north of . The city is far older than Doha, but much smaller.

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is a municipality in the state of Qatar. The seaside teems with local dhow boats. Al Ruwais is part of a conglomeration of towns in the municipality of Madinat ash Shamal, including Al Ruwais and Abu Dahlouf.

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, also known as Umm Sa'id, is a major town and port on the Qatar peninsula. Similar to many cities across the country, was founded in 1949 as a tanker terminal, to help grow Qatar's oil industry.

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is an industrial city in the western reaches of Qatar. was founded when oil was first discovered in the region, and its purpose has not changed since.

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Umm Salal Muhammad is a town in Qatar in the Umm Salal municipality, about 15 km north of . An easy and pleasant morning or afternoon trip out of Doha, it is a short drive from the northern outskirts of Doha on the North Road to Al-Ruweis.

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is a town in central Qatar, out to the west of , in the Al Rayyan municipality. The majority of activity associated with camel racing and oryx breeding in Qatar take place within the municipality.
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Qatar

Latitude of center
25.275° or 25° 16′ 30″ north
Longitude of center
51.191° or 51° 11′ 28″ east
Population
1,700,000
Area
11,437 km² (4,416 miles²)
Elevation
27 metres (89 feet)
Capital
Currency
Rial (QAR)
Phone code
.qa
Internet domain
974
Open­Street­Map ID
node 432425062
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­country
Geo­Names ID
289688
Wiki­data ID
Q846
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Qatar” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Ҟатар Аҳәынҭқарра”
  • Abkhazian: “Ҟатар”
  • Achinese: “Qatar”
  • Adyghe: “Катар”
  • Afrikaans: “Katar”
  • Afrikaans: “Qatar”
  • Akan: “Kata”
  • Albanian: “Katar”
  • Albanian: “Katari”
  • Algerian Arabic: “قطر”
  • Amharic: “ቃጣር”
  • Amharic: “ኳታር”
  • Amis: “Qatar”
  • Angika: “कतर”
  • Arabic: “إمارة قطر”
  • Arabic: “دَوْلَة قَطَر”
  • Arabic: “قطر”
  • Aragonese: “QA”
  • Aragonese: “Qatar”
  • Armenian: “Կատար”
  • Arpitan: “Qatar”
  • Arpitan: “Qatâr”
  • Assamese: “কাটাৰ”
  • Asturian: “Qatar”
  • Atayal: “Qatar”
  • Avaric: “КъатӀар”
  • Awadhi: “कतार”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qətər”
  • Balinese: “Qatar”
  • Bambara: “Katari”
  • Bashkir: “Катар”
  • Basque: “Katar”
  • Basque: “Qatar”
  • Batak Mandailing: “Qatar”
  • Bavarian: “Katar”
  • Belarusian: “Катар”
  • Bengali: “কাতার”
  • Betawi: “Katar”
  • Bhojpuri: “क़तर”
  • Bishnupriya: “কাতার”
  • Bosnian: “Katar”
  • Brahui: “Katar”
  • Breton: “Katar”
  • Breton: “Qatar”
  • Buginese: “Qatar”
  • Buginese: “ᨀᨈᨑ”
  • Bulgarian: “Държавата Катар”
  • Bulgarian: “Катар”
  • Burmese: “ကာတာ”
  • Burmese: “ကာတာနိုင်ငံ”
  • Catalan: “Estat de Qatar”
  • Catalan: “Qatar”
  • Cebuano: “Katar”
  • Cebuano: “Qatar”
  • Central Bikol: “Qatar”
  • Central Kurdish: “قەتەر”
  • Chavacano: “Qatar”
  • Chechen: “Катар”
  • Chechen: “КъатӀар”
  • Chinese: “Kǎtǎěr”
  • Chinese: “QA”
  • Chinese: “Qatar”
  • Chinese: “卡国”
  • Chinese: “卡塔尔 / 卡達”
  • Chinese: “卡塔尔”
  • Chinese: “卡塔尔国”
  • Chinese: “卡塔爾”
  • Chinese: “卡達”
  • Chuvash: “Катар”
  • Cornish: “Katar”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Qatar”
  • Croatian: “Katar”
  • Czech: “Katar”
  • Dagbani: “Qatar”
  • Danish: “Qatar”
  • Dhivehi: “ޤަޠަރު”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Qeter”
  • Dotyali: “कतार”
  • Dutch: “QA”
  • Dutch: “QAT”
  • Dutch: “Qatar”
  • Dutch: “Staat Qatar”
  • Dzongkha: “ཀ་ཊར”
  • Dzongkha: “ཀ་ཏར་”
  • Eastern Mari: “Катар”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “دولة قطر”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “قطر”
  • Esperanto: “Kataro”
  • Esperanto: “Ŝtato Kataro”
  • Estonian: “Katar”
  • Estonian: “Katari riik”
  • Ewe: “Katar nutome”
  • Ewe: “Qatar”
  • Extremaduran: “Catal”
  • Faroese: “Katar”
  • Faroese: “Qatar”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Qatar”
  • Finnish: “Qatar”
  • Finnish: “Qatarin valtio”
  • French: “Katar”
  • French: “l’État du Qatar”
  • French: “Qa.”
  • French: “QA”
  • French: “Qatar”
  • Fulah: “Kataar”
  • Fulah: “Qatar”
  • Gagauz: “Katar”
  • Galician: “Qatar”
  • Ganda: “Kataa”
  • Georgian: “კატარი”
  • German: “Katar”
  • German: “QA”
  • German: “Qatar”
  • German: “Staat Katar”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Qatar”
  • Gilaki: “قطر”
  • Goan Konkani: “कतार”
  • Greek: “Κατάρ”
  • Guarani: “Katára”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Katar”
  • Gujarati: “કતાર”
  • Haitian: “Kata”
  • Haitian: “Katar”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Qatar”
  • Hausa: “Katar”
  • Hausa: “Qatar”
  • Hawaiian: “Katala”
  • Hebrew: “קאטאר”
  • Hebrew: “קאטר”
  • Hebrew: “קטאר”
  • Hebrew: “קטר”
  • Hindi: “क़तर”
  • Hungarian: “Katar”
  • Hungarian: “Katari Állam”
  • Iban: “Qatar”
  • Icelandic: “Katar”
  • Ido: “Katar”
  • Igbo: “Qatar”
  • Iloko: “Katar”
  • Inari Sami: “Qatar staatâ”
  • Inari Sami: “Qatar”
  • Indonesian: “Qatar”
  • Interlingua: “Qatar”
  • Interlingue: “Katar”
  • Interlingue: “Quatar”
  • Irish: “Catar”
  • Italian: “Qatar”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Kata”
  • Japanese: “カタール”
  • Japanese: “カタール国”
  • Javanese: “Katar”
  • Javanese: “Qatar”
  • Kabardian: “Катар”
  • Kabardian: “Къатар”
  • Kabyle: “Qaṭar”
  • Kadazan Dusun: “Qatar”
  • Kalaallisut: “Qatar”
  • Kalaallisut: “Quatar”
  • Kalmyk: “Һатарин Нутг”
  • Kannada: “ಕಟಾರ್”
  • Kannada: “ಕತಾರ್”
  • Kannada: “ಖತಾರ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Qatar”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Катар”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Къатар”
  • Kashmiri: “قَطَر”
  • Kashmiri: “قَطِر”
  • Kashubian: “Katar”
  • Kazakh: “Катар”
  • Kazakh: “Қатар”
  • Khmer: “កាតា”
  • Kikuyu: “Katari”
  • Kikuyu: “Qatar”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Katari”
  • Kirghiz: “Катар”
  • Kölsch: “Kataa”
  • Komering: “Qatar”
  • Komi: “Катар”
  • Kongo: “Qatar”
  • Korean: “까타르”
  • Korean: “카타르”
  • Kurdish: “Qeter”
  • Kurdish: “قەتەر”
  • Ladin: “Catar”
  • Ladino: “Katar”
  • Lao: “ກາຕາ”
  • Lao: “ປະເທດກາຕາ”
  • Latin: “Catura”
  • Latin: “Quataria”
  • Latin: “status Qatarensis”
  • Latvian: “Katara”
  • Lezghian: “Къатар”
  • Ligurian: “Qatar”
  • Limburgan: “Katar”
  • Limburgan: “Qatar”
  • Lingala: “Katar”
  • Lingala: “Katari”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Catar”
  • Literary Chinese: “卡塔爾”
  • Literary Chinese: “卡達”
  • Literary Chinese: “卡達國”
  • Lithuanian: “Kataras”
  • Livvi: “Katar”
  • Lombard: “Qatar”
  • Low German: “Katar”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Katar”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Katari”
  • Luxembourgish: “Katar”
  • Macedonian: “Катар”
  • Macedonian: “Кватар”
  • Madurese: “Qatar”
  • Maithili: “कतार”
  • Malagasy: “Katar”
  • Malagasy: “Katara”
  • Malay: “Qatar”
  • Malayalam: “ഖത്തർ”
  • Maltese: “il-Qatar”
  • Maltese: “l-Istat tal-Qatar”
  • Maltese: “Qatar”
  • Manipuri: “ꯀꯥꯇꯥꯔ”
  • Manx: “Yn Chatar”
  • Maori: “Katā”
  • Marathi: “कतार”
  • Mazanderani: “قطر”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Qatar”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Qatar”
  • Minangkabau: “Qatar”
  • Mingrelian: “კატარი”
  • Mirandese: “Qatar”
  • Moksha: “Катар”
  • Mongolian: “Катар”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “قطر”
  • Nauru: “Qatar”
  • Navajo: “Tó Biníhííyį́įgi Kiyaaʼáhí Hahoodzo”
  • Nepali: “कतार”
  • Newari: “कतार”
  • North Ndebele: “Kathari”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kataar”
  • Northern Luri: “قطر”
  • Northern Sami: “Qatar stáhta”
  • Northern Sami: “Qatar”
  • Northern Sami: “Qatara stáhta”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Qatar”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Staten Qatar”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Qatar”
  • Norwegian: “Qatar”
  • Novial: “Katar”
  • Nupe-Nupe-Tako: “Qatar”
  • Obolo: “Kàtaa”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Qatar”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܩܛܪ”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܩܜܪ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Catar”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Qatar”
  • Oriya: “କତର”
  • Oriya: “କତାର୍”
  • Oromo: “Kaataar”
  • Ossetian: “Катар”
  • Pa'o Karen: “ကာတာခမ်းထီ”
  • Pali: “कतार”
  • Pampanga: “Katar”
  • Pampanga: “Qatar”
  • Panjabi: “ਕਤਰ”
  • Papiamento: “Catar”
  • Papiamento: “Qatar”
  • Persian: “قطر”
  • Picard: “Quatar”
  • Piemontese: “Qatar”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Kataa”
  • Polish: “Katar”
  • Portuguese: “Catar”
  • Portuguese: “Estado do Catar”
  • Portuguese: “qa”
  • Portuguese: “Qatar”
  • Pushto: “قطر”
  • Quechua: “Qatar”
  • Romanian: “Qatar”
  • Romansh: “Katar”
  • Rundi: “Katari”
  • Russia Buriat: “Катар”
  • Russian: “Государство Катар”
  • Russian: “Катар”
  • Rusyn: “Катар”
  • Sakizaya: “Qatar”
  • Samoan: “Kata”
  • Samoan: “Qatar”
  • Samogitian: “Katars”
  • Sango: “Katära”
  • Sanskrit: “कतार”
  • Santali: “ᱠᱟᱛᱟᱨ”
  • Saraiki: “قطر”
  • Sardinian: “Qatàr”
  • Scots: “Qatar”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Catar”
  • Serbian: “Katar”
  • Serbian: “Катар”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Katar”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းၶႃႇတႃႇ”
  • Shona: “Qatar”
  • Sicilian: “Qatar”
  • Silesian: “Katar”
  • Sindhi: “قطر”
  • Sinhala: “කටාර්”
  • Sinhala: “කාටාර්”
  • Skolt Sami: “Qataar riikk”
  • Skolt Sami: “Qataar valdia”
  • Skolt Sami: “Qataar”
  • Slovak: “Katar”
  • Slovak: “Katarský štát”
  • Slovenian: “Katar”
  • Somali: “Qadar”
  • Somali: “Qatar”
  • South Azerbaijani: “قطر”
  • Spanish: “Catar”
  • Spanish: “Estado de Catar”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵇⴰⵟⴰⵔ”
  • Sundanese: “Qatar”
  • Swahili: “Katari”
  • Swahili: “Qatar”
  • Swati: “IKhathari”
  • Swedish: “Qatar”
  • Swedish: “Staten Qatar”
  • Swiss German: “Katar”
  • Sylheti: “ꠇꠣ”
  • Sylheti: “ꠇꠣꠔꠣꠞ”
  • Tachelhit: “Qaṭaṛ”
  • Tagalog: “Katar”
  • Tagalog: “Qatar”
  • Tajik: “Қатар”
  • Talysh: “Gətər”
  • Talysh: “Qətər”
  • Tamil: “கத்தார்”
  • Taroko: “Qatar”
  • Tatar: “Катар”
  • Telugu: “కతర్”
  • Telugu: “ఖతార్”
  • Tetum: “Katár”
  • Thai: “กาตาร์”
  • Thai: “ประเทศกาตาร์”
  • Thai: “รัฐกาตาร์”
  • Tibetan: “ཀ་ཏཱར།”
  • Tibetan: “ཁ་ཏར།”
  • Tigrinya: “ቀጠር”
  • Tok Pisin: “Qatar”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Katā”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Katar”
  • Tumbuka: “Qatar”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “قطر”
  • Turkish: “Katar”
  • Turkmen: “Katar”
  • Turkmen: “Qatar”
  • Tyap: “Ka̱ta̱r”
  • Udmurt: “Катар”
  • Uighur: “قاتار”
  • Ukrainian: “Катар”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Katar”
  • Urdu: “قطر”
  • Uzbek: “Qatar”
  • Venetian: “Catar”
  • Venetian: “Qatar”
  • Veps: “Katar”
  • Vietnamese: “Ca-ta”
  • Vietnamese: “Qatar”
  • Vlaams: “Qatar”
  • Vlax Romani: “Qatar”
  • Volapük: “Katarän”
  • Võro: “Katar”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Catar”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Qatar”
  • Welsh: “Catar”
  • Welsh: “Qatar”
  • Western Armenian: “Քաթար”
  • Western Balochi: “کتر”
  • Western Frisian: “Katar”
  • Western Frisian: “Qatar”
  • Western Panjabi: “قطر”
  • Wolof: “Kataar”
  • Wu Chinese: “卡塔尔”
  • Yakut: “Катар”
  • Yiddish: “קאטאר”
  • Yiddish: “קאַטאַר”
  • Yoruba: “Katar”
  • Yoruba: “Kota”
  • Yue Chinese: “卡塔爾”
  • Yue Chinese: “卡達”
  • Zeeuws: “Qatar”
  • Zhuang: “Qatar”
  • Zulu: “i-Qatar”
  • “Catar”
  • “Katar”
  • “Katars”
  • “ma Kata”
  • “QA”
  • “QAT”
  • “क़तर”

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