Qatar
Qatar is a rich Arab state occupying a small peninsula extending into the Persian Gulf to the north of Saudi Arabia. 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.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Popular Destinations
Doha
Photo: JamesA, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.
Al Wakrah
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Al-Wakrah is a city in eastern Qatar, just south of Doha.
Hamad International Airport
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Hamad International Airport is the main airport of Doha and the busiest in Qatar.
Destinations
Al Khor
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Perched on the eastern coast of the Qatari peninsula, Al-Khor is a major settlement just north of Doha.
Al Shamal
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Al Shamal is a municipality in the state of Qatar. The seaside teems with local dhow boats.
Mesaieed
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Mesaieed, also known as Umm Sa'id, is a major town and port on the Qatar peninsula.
Dukhan
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Dukhan is an industrial city in the western reaches of Qatar.
Umm Salal Mohammed
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Umm Salal Muhammad is a town in Qatar in the Umm Salal municipality, about 15 km north of Doha.
Al Shahaniyah
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Al Shahaniyah is a town in central Qatar, out to the west of Doha, in the Al Rayyan municipality.
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Qatar
- Type: Country with 1,700,000 residents
- Description: country in West Asia
- Languages: Arabic and Spanish
- Neighbors: Iran and Saudi Arabia
- Categories: Emirate, sovereign state and locality
- Location: Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude of center
25.275° or 25° 16' 30" northLongitude of center
51.191° or 51° 11' 28" eastPopulation
1,700,000Area
11,437 km² (4,416 miles²)Elevation
27 metres (89 feet)Capital
DohaCurrency
Rial (QAR)Phone code
.qaInternet domain
974OpenStreetMap ID
node 432425062OpenStreetMap Feature
place=countryGeoNames ID
289688Wikidata ID
Q846Qatar Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Qaṭar
- Abkhazian: Ҟатар
- Abkhazian: Ҟатар Аҳәынҭқарра
- Achinese: Qatar
- Adyghe: Катар
- Afar: Qatar
- Afrikaans: Katar
- Afrikaans: Qatar
- Akan: Kata
- Akan: Qatar
- Albanian: Katar
- Albanian: Katari
- Algerian Arabic: قطر
- Amharic: Qatar
- Amharic: ቃጣር
- Amharic: ኳታር
- Amis: Qatar
- Angika: कतर
- Arabic: Qatar
- Arabic: إمارة قطر
- Arabic: دَوْلَة قَطَر
- Arabic: قطر
- Aragonese: Qatar
- Armenian: Կատար
- Armenian: Քաթար
- Arpitan: Qatar
- Assamese: কাটাৰ
- Asturian: Qatar
- Atayal: Qatar
- Avaric: КъатӀар
- Awadhi: कतार
- Azerbaijani: Qətər
- Balinese: Qatar
- Bambara: Katari
- Bashkir: Катар
- Basque: Katar
- Basque: Qatar
- Bavarian: Katar
- Belarusian: Катар
- Bengali: কাতার
- 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
- Dzongkha: ཀ་ཊར
- Dzongkha: ཀ་ཏར་
- Eastern Mari: Катар
- Egyptian Arabic: دولة قطر
- Egyptian Arabic: قطر
- English: State of Qatar
- English: qa
- English: qat
- 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: QA
- French: Qa.
- French: Qatar
- French: l’État du Qatar
- Fulah: Kataar
- Fulah: Qatar
- Gagauz: Katar
- Galician: Qatar - قطر
- Galician: Qatar
- Ganda: Kataa
- Georgian: კატარი
- German: Katar
- German: QA
- German: Qatar
- German: Staat Katar
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: Qatar
- Goan Konkani: कतार
- Greek: Κατάρ
- Guarani: Katára
- Guianese Creole French: Katar
- Gujarati: કતાર
- Haitian: Kata
- Haitian: Katar
- Hakka Chinese: Qatar
- Hausa: Katala
- Hausa: Katar
- Hausa: Qatar
- Hawaiian: Katala
- Hebrew: קאטאר
- Hebrew: קאטר
- Hebrew: קטאר
- Hebrew: קטר
- Hindi: क़तर
- Hungarian: Katar
- Hungarian: Katari Állam
- Icelandic: Katar
- Ido: Katar
- Igbo: Qatar
- Iloko: Katar
- Inari Sami: Qatar
- Inari Sami: Qatar staatâ
- Indonesian: Qatar
- Interlingua: Qatar
- Interlingue: Katar
- 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
- Kabyle: Qaṭar
- Kadazan Dusun: Qatar
- Kalaallisut: Qatar
- Kalaallisut: Quatar
- Kalmyk: Һатарин Нутг
- Kannada: ಕಟಾರ್
- Kannada: ಕತಾರ್
- Kannada: ಖತಾರ್
- Kara-Kalpak: Qatar
- Kashmiri: قَطَر
- Kashmiri: قَطِر
- Kashubian: Katar
- Kazakh: Катар
- Khmer: កាតា
- Kikuyu: Katari
- Kikuyu: Qatar
- Kinyarwanda: Katari
- Kirghiz: Катар
- Komi: Катар
- Kongo: Qatar
- Korean: 까타르
- Korean: 카타르
- Kurdish: Qeter
- Kurdish: قەتەر
- Kölsch: Kataa
- Ladin: Catar
- Lao: Katar
- Lao: ກາຕາ
- Lao: ປະເທດກາຕາ
- Latin: Catura
- Latin: Quataria
- Latin: status Qatarensis
- Latvian: Katara
- Lezghian: Къатар
- Ligurian: Qatar
- Limburgan: Katar
- 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: Qatar
- Maltese: il-Qatar
- Maltese: l-Istat tal-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
- Mongolian: ꯀꯥꯇꯥꯔ
- 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
- Northern Sami: Qatara stáhta
- Northern Sami: Qatar stáhta
- Norwegian: Qatar
- Norwegian Bokmål: Qatar
- Norwegian Bokmål: Staten Qatar
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Qatar
- Novial: Katar
- 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
- Piemontese: Qatar
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: Kataa
- Polish: Katar
- Portuguese: Catar
- Portuguese: Estado do Catar
- Portuguese: Qatar
- Portuguese: qa
- 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
- Skolt Sami: Qataar
- Skolt Sami: Qataar riikk
- Skolt Sami: Qataar valdia
- Slovak: Katar
- Slovak: Katarský štát
- Slovenian: Katar
- Somali: Qadar
- Somali: Qatar
- South Azerbaijani: قطر
- Spanish: Catar
- Spanish: Estado de Catar
- Spanish: Qatar
- Standard Moroccan Tamazight: ⵇⴰⵟⴰⵔ
- Sundanese: Qatar
- Swahili: Katari
- Swahili: Qatar
- Swati: IKhathari
- Swedish: Qatar
- Swedish: Staten Qatar
- Swiss German: Katar
- Sylheti: ꠇꠣ
- Sylheti: ꠇꠣꠔꠣꠞ
- 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
- 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
- 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: קאַטאַר
- Yiddish: קאטאר
- Yoruba: Katar
- Yoruba: Kota
- Yue Chinese: 卡塔爾
- Yue Chinese: 卡達
- Zeeuws: Qatar
- Zhuang: Qatar
- Zulu: i-Qatar
- Al Qatar
- Dawlat Qaţar
- Qaţar
- Shaikhdom of Qatar
- Sheikhdom of Qatar
- ma Kata
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