Qatar
Population
928,000 peopleCapital
DohaCurrency
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Area in square kilometers
11,437 km2 Qatar Population
833,285 (158 of 237)
Qatar Area, Sq. Km.
complete Qatar dialing code, you can make your international call.
Qatar telephone code 974 is dialed after the IDD. Qatar
international dialing 974 is followed by an area code.
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1825, during the war between Qatar and Bahrain, Doha had been severely
damaged and Abu Dhabi was helping Bahrain. In 1882, al Rayyan built
the Al Wajbah fortress, in southwestern Doha. The following year,
Sheikh Qassim led a Qatari army to victory against the Ottomans.
Doha also serves as the seat of government of Qatar, which is ruled by
Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani. Doha is home to the Education City,
an area devoted to research and education.
From top: Qatar University, Museum of Islamic Art, Doha Skyline, Souq
Waqif, The Pearl
Location of the municipality of Doha within Qatar.
Coordinates: 25°17′12″N 51°32′0″E / 25.28667°N 51.533333°E /
25.28667; 51.533333Coordinates: 25°17′12″N 51°32′0″E / 25.28667°N
51.533333°E / 25.28667; 51.
also known as the State of Qatar or locally Dawlat Qaṭar, is an Arab
emirate, in the Middle East, occupying the small Qatar Peninsula on
the northeasterly coast of the much larger Arabian Peninsula.
separates Qatar from the nearby island state of Bahrain.
Qatar has been ruled as an absolute monarchy by the Al Thani family
since the mid-19th century.
Beginning in 1992, Qatar has built intimate military
ties with the United States, and is now the location of U.S. Central
Command’s Forward Headquarters and the Combined Air Operations Center.
Less than one fifth of the population are native Qataris; most of the
workers associated with the important oil and gas industries are
foreigners. Arabic is the official language, although English is
widely used.
Qatar is a traditional monarchy headed by an emir.
Qatar is largely barren and agriculture is minimal. Water is scarce.
Once a nomadic society, Qatar now has little rural population. Doha,
the main urban center, is on the eastern coast of the peninsula.
Qatar or Katar (both: kŭ`tər, gŭ–, kətär`), officially State of Qatar,
independent emirate (2005 est. pop. 863,000), c.4,400 sq mi (11,400 sq
km), E Arabia, coextensive with the Qatar peninsula, which projects
into the Persian Gulf. The capital and largest city is Doha.
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Dawlat Qatar), is an Arab emirate in Southwest Asia, occupying the
small Qatar Peninsula on the northeasterly coast of the larger Arabian
Peninsula. It is bordered by Saudi Arabia to the south; otherwise the
Persian Gulf surrounds the state.
to the Qatari town of Zubara, an important trading port and town in
the region in ancient times. The word "Qatara" first appeared on
Ptolemy's map of the Arabian Peninsula.
within Qatar—for example, television commercials for Qatar Airways and
advertisements concerning economic development in Qatar—the name is
pronounced "KA-tar", with a distinct differentiation between the
syllables from the forming of the 't' sound.
COUNTRY DESCRIPTION: Qatar is a constitutional monarchy governed by
the ruling Al Thani family in consultation with a council of
ministers, an appointed advisory council, and an elected municipal
council.
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the Arabian Gulf, Qatar is a dynamic, modernizing, rapidly developing
country that is among the wealthiest in the world. The capital is
Doha. Tourist facilities are available. Read the Department of State
Background Notes on Qatar for additional information.
Qatar (قطر "kat-ir") is a peninsula jutting into the Persian Gulf,
to the north of Saudi Arabia, East of Bahrain and West of the Emirates.
Qatar is home to the Al Jazeera television station and
is rapidly gaining interest among foreigners as it hosted the 2006
Asian Games and is now scheduled to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup.
Qatar's proved reserves of natural gas exceed 7
trillion cubic meters, more than 5% of the world total, third largest
in the world. Production and export of natural gas are becoming
increasingly important.
Ethnic Qataris, Arabs of the Wahhabi sect, make up a quarter
of the population, with the rest being immigrants and guest workers
primarily from other Muslim countries. Doha is the capital and the
largest city. Population: 907,000.
Qatari Qa·tar'i adj.
Qatar is a constitutional emirate with
one advisory body, and its basis of legislation is Islamic law. The
head of state and government is the emir, assisted by the prime
minister.
Qatar is mostly
stony, sandy, and barren and consists of salt flats, dune desert, and
arid plains. Largely because of petroleum and natural gas exports, its
gross national product per capita is one of the highest in the world.
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Empire occupied Qatar in 1872.
When the Ottomans left at the beginning of World War I, the British
recognized Sheikh Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani as ruler. The Al Thani
family had lived in Qatar for 200 years.
Qatar from all aggression by sea and to lend their good offices in
case of a land attack. A 1934 treaty granted more extensive British
protection.
Qatar's 907,229 inhabitants live in Doha, the capital. Foreigners with
temporary residence status make up about three-fourths of the
population. Foreign workers comprise 52% of the total population and
make up about 89% of the total labor force.
Qatar has spent its energies (and considerable fortunes) in eschewing
this stereotype, however, and showing that these ‘Orientalist’ flights
of fancy are more a product of feverish Western imaginations than
anything related to the Middle East.
to go searching for such stereotypes and Qatar has its share: there
are rock carvings to testify human endurance pitched against
adversities of nature; forts to hint at the ruins of empire; and
occasional goat-hair Bedouin tents to suggest the ‘noble savage’
nature of life in the
When looking at modern Qatar, it’s easy to imagine the great Oriental
scholar, Edward Said, turning in his grave. Nineteenth-century Western
travellers to the Middle East went in search of an imagined Arabia.
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Region. This page aims to give you a broad overview of Qatar's art,
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Background:
Ruled by the Al Thani family since the mid-1800s, Qatar transformed
Desert in Qatar Desert in Qatar
Qatar shares its land border with the United Arab Emirates, with
which, in 1993, it continued to have a dispute in the Khawr al Udayd
area.
Qatar, officially the State of Qatar, is an emirate in the Middle East
and Southwest Asia, occupying the small Qatar Peninsula on the
northeastern coast of the larger Arabian Peninsula.
Qatari population lives side by side with newcomers who have been
drawn to Qatar by economic opportunity.
In 2000, Qatar strenuously competed with a number of Asian cities to
host the 15th Asian Games in Doha.
Qatar is an Islamic state.
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Qatar came in the first place among the Arab countries and in 12th
place on global level among 153 countries by advancing its position
this year.
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The State of Qatar topped the Middle East and North African (MENA)
region in Global Peace Index (GPI) 2011.
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Although the peninsular land mass that makes up Qatar has sustained
humans for thousands of years, for the bulk of its history the arid
climate fostered only short-term settlements by nomadic tribes.
Qatar (Arabic:قطر ), officially the State of Qatar (Arabic:دولة قطر
transliterated as Dawlat Qatar), is an emirate in the Middle East and
Western Asia, occupying the small Qatar Peninsula on the northeasterly
coast of the larger Arabian Peninsula.
Qatar forms one of the newer emirates in the Arabian Peninsula. After
domination by Persians for thousands of years and more recently by the
Ottoman Turks, and finally by the British, Qatar became an independent
state on September 3, 1971.
Natives of the Arabian Peninsula, many Qataris are descended from a
number of migratory tribes that came to Qatar in the 18th century from
the neighboring areas of Nejd and Al-Hasa. Some came from neighboring
Gulf emirates and others are descended from Persian merchants.
At one time, Qataris owned nearly one-third of the Persian Gulf
fishing fleet. With the Great Depression and the introduction of
Japan's cultured-pearl industry, pearling in Qatar declined
drastically.
The Qataris are mainly Sunni Muslims.
Qatar has an increasingly high literacy rate.
HISTORY
Qatar has been inhabited for millennia.
Qatar, Katar n (Placename) a state in E Arabia, occupying a
peninsula in the Persian Gulf: under Persian rule until the 19th
century; became a British protectorate in 1916; declared independence
in 1971; exports petroleum and natural gas. Official language: Arabic.
Official religion: (Sunni) Muslim.
Qataris, Arabs of the Wahhabi sect, make up a quarter of the
population, with the rest being immigrants and guest workers primarily
from other Muslim countries. Doha is the capital and the largest city.
Population: 907,000.
QatarQatar - an Arab country on the peninsula of Qatar; achieved
independence from the United Kingdom in 1971; the economy is dominated
by oilKatar, State of Katar, State of QatarArab League - an
international organization of independent Arab states formed in 1945
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And speaking of planes, tourism in Qatar (mostly to Doha) has
increased rather dramatically; sparkling new hotels (Las Vegas-like)
stand along the lengthy waterfront, and the traveling world has
finally learned about Qatar's beautiful beaches, and of course, the
duty-free shopping.
move Qatar into the most desirable position of having one of the
highest per capita incomes in the world, and helped propel Qatar into
a progressive Middle East state.
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2007, Qatar held nationwide elections for a 29-member Central
Municipal Council (CMC), which has limited consultative powers aimed
at improving the provision of municipal services; the first election
for the CMC was held in March 1999
Legislative branch:
Field
During the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Qatari economy was crippled
by a continuous siphoning off of petroleum revenues by the Amir, who
had ruled the country since 1972. His son, the current Amir HAMAD bin
Khalifa Al Thani, overthrew him in a bloodless coup in 1995.
Qatar resolved its longstanding border disputes with both Bahrain and
Saudi Arabia. As of 2007, oil and natural gas revenues had enabled
Qatar to attain the second-highest per capita income in the world.