Qatar
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Country in West Asia
Qatar, officially the State of Qatar, is a country in West Asia. It occupies the Qatar Peninsula on the northeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula in the Middle East; it shares its sole land border with Saudi Arabia to the south, with the rest of its territory surrounded by the Persian Gulf. The Gulf of Bahrain, an inlet of the Persian Gulf, separates Qatar from nearby Bahrain. The capital is Doha, home to over 80% of the country's inhabitants. Most of the land area is made up of flat, low-lying desert.
Text: Wikipedia — QatarCC BY-SA 4.0 · revised 2026-08-02
- Capital
- Doha
- Currency
- Qatari riyal (QAR)
- Official language
- Arabic
- Drives on the
- Right
- Calling code
- +974
- Licence plate code
- Q
- Top-level domain
- .qa
- Independence / founding
- 1870
- Highest point
- Qurayn Abu al Bawl (103 m)
- Lowest point
- Persian Gulf
- Anthem
- As Salam al Amiri
The World Bank does not publish figures for Qatar, so this note carries no economic or social statistics.
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