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It consists of a mixture of grand villas and newer apartment buildings, and is well known for its Lebanese and Indian restaurants. Abdulaziz Shamlan , a Bahraini nationalist leader from the 1950s and later Bahrain's Ambassador in Cairo , is one of the area's most famous ex-residents, along with the late Yousuf Abdulrahman Engineer, whose house ...
Bahrain Financial Harbour (Arabic: مرفأ البحرين المالي, commonly abbreviated as BFH) is a waterfront commercial development project located on the northern shore of Manama, the capital city of Bahrain. Costing $1.5 billion and covering an area of 380,000 square metres, the two main Harbour Towers were officially opened in May 2007.
The Diyar Al Muharraq plan includes the construction of social housing projects on 1.2 million m2 for 133 units northwest of the artificial island in an area called Deerat Al Oyoun.Bahrain. [ 5 ] $366 million of the project was financed by 4 banks ( Al Salam Bank-Bahrain , Kuwait Finance House , Bank of Bahrain and Kuwait , and Al Baraka ...
Bahrain, [a] officially the Kingdom of Bahrain, [b] is an island country in West Asia. It is situated on the Persian Gulf , and comprises a small archipelago made up of 50 natural islands and an additional 33 artificial islands , centered on Bahrain Island which makes up around 83 percent of the country's landmass.
This is a list of cities and towns in Bahrain with listed governorates and population figures for the most populous cities: Ten largest cities. Manama Riffa.
Durrat Al Bahrain (Arabic: درة البحرين) is the third largest artificial island in Bahrain after Northern City and Diyar Al Muharraq Islands. It lies 40.5 km (25.2 mi) south of the capital, Manama , on Bahrain Island .
The government has used its modest oil revenues to build an advanced infrastructure in transportation and telecommunications. Bahrain is a regional financial and business center. Tourism, especially from the region, has proved another significant source of income. Bahrain has benefited from the oil boom since 2001, with economic growth of 5.5%.
Manama (Arabic: الْمَنَامَة el-Menâme, Bahrani pronunciation: [elmɐˈnɑːmɐ]) is the capital and largest city of Bahrain, with an approximate population of 297,502 as of 2012.