Qatar Travel Guide

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Qatar is a country of eastern Arabia on a peninsula in the southwest Persian Gulf. officially State of Qatar, independent emirate, c.4,400 sq mi (11,400 sq km). It is bordered by Saudi Arabia to the south; otherwise the Persian Gulf surrounds the state. A strait of the Persian Gulf separates Qatar from the relatively nearby island nation of Bahrain.

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Doha is the capital and the largest city. Population: 907,000. 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. Arabic is the official language, although English is widely used. Qatar is largely barren, flat desert. Water is scarce, and agriculture is minimal. 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 desert. Although total oil reserves are somewhat modest in comparison to other Persian Gulf countries, Qatar is one of the largest natural-gas producers in the world.

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• Doha

• Al-Khor

• Rayyan

• Wakra