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It was announced on 13 December 2008 that construction would start in early 2009, [3] and would cost approximately US$2.3 billion to complete. As of June 2015, construction had not started, and the Qatar–Bahrain Causeway project was on hold, while the contracting consortium involved with the project was said to be demobilising, according to a source at the Qatar Bahrain Causeway Foundation ...
The location of Qatar An enlargeable map of the State of Qatar. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Qatar: . The State of Qatar is a sovereign Arab emirate located in Southwest Asia on the Qatari Peninsula protruding from the northeasterly coast of the much larger Arabian Peninsula. [1]
Qatar is the fifth most water stressed country in the world. Based on estimates in 2011 estimates, 5.6% of the land is agricultural. Arable land comprises 1.1%, permanent crops 0.2% and permanent pasture 4.6%. 94.4% of the land was used for other uses. [41] In 2003, 129.4 km 2 (50.0 sq mi) of land was irrigated. [41]
Umm Bab (Arabic: أم باب) is a settlement in Qatar, located in the municipality of Al-Shahaniya. [2] It used to be part of the Al Rayyan municipality and prior to that part of Al Jemailiya municipality before the latter was incorporated into Al Rayyan. [ 3 ]
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Qatar, [a] officially the State of Qatar, [b] 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.
Name Image Location Criteria Year Description; Al Zubarah Archaeological Site: Al Shamal Municipality. Cultural (iii) (iv) (v) 2013 The walled coastal town of Al Zubarah in the Persian Gulf flourished as a pearling and trading centre in the late 18th century and early 19th centuries, before it was destroyed in 1811 and abandoned in the early 1900s.