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The Bay of Zekreet (Arabic: دَوْحَة زِكْرِيت, romanized: Dawḩat az Zikrīt) is a half-moon shaped bay on the Zekreet Peninsula in western Qatar.The Zekreet Peninsula is a rocky, sandy desert, with numerous rock formations and gypsum plateaux.
Qatar is a peninsula in the east of Arabia, bordering the Persian Gulf and Saudi Arabia, in a strategic location near major petroleum and natural gas deposits. The State of Qatar occupies 11,571 km 2 (4,468 sq mi) on a peninsula that extends approximately to 160 km (99 mi) north into the Persian Gulf from the Arabian Peninsula.
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]
An Arabian oryx in a rawda near Zekreet Film City. The Abarug member of the Eocene-period Dammam Formation is the dominant structural-lithic unit of the area.The uppermost part of the Abarug member is formed of dull-colored slightly calcareous dolomitic limestone and is roughly 2 m (6.6 ft) thick, while the lower part is approximately 10 m (33 ft) thick and is composed of brightly-colored ...
Reconstructed ruins atop a limestone cliff in the Zekreet Peninsula. Zekreet (Arabic: زكريت) is a village in north-western Qatar near Dukhan and about 80 km (50 mi) north-west west of Doha. [2] Originally a sparsely populated area, Zekreet was built up in the 1940s after oil operations commenced in Qatar.
Ras Abrouq (Arabic: رأس أبروق; also known as Bir Zekreet) [2] is the northernmost extension of the Zekreet Peninsula, a stretch of land to the north of Dukhan in Qatar. [3] It has a beach of the same name [2] and various archaeological sites. Since the 21st century it has functioned as a tourist site. [2]
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 .
Dukhan Sabkha, located in the northern section of the Dukhan region in western Qatar, is the largest inland sabkha (a type of saltflat) ecosystem found in the Persian Gulf. The sabkha runs for approximately 20 kilometres (12 mi), occupies an area of 73 km 2 (28 sq mi), has a width of 2 km (1.2 mi) to 4 km (2.5 mi) and a depth of between 6 ...