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Education City is an educational and research hub in Qatar situated in Al Rayyan Municipality and forming a key part of the Doha Metropolitan Area. [2] Developed by the Qatar Foundation, the 12 square kilometres (4.6 sq mi) property houses various educational facilities, including satellite campuses of eight international universities.
Qatar [a] (Arabic: قطر, Qaṭar) [b] officially the State of Qatar, [c] 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 history of Qatar spans from its first duration of human occupation to its formation as a modern state. Human occupation of Qatar dates back to 50,000 years ago, and Stone Age encampments and tools have been unearthed in the Arabian Peninsula. [ 1] Mesopotamia was the first civilization to have a presence in the area during the Neolithic ...
Al Sayliyah Army Base ( Arabic :قاعدة السيلية العسكرية) or Camp Al Sayliyah was a United States Army base in Al Sailiya, a suburb outside Doha, Qatar. U.S. Central Command used it to preposition material bound for Iraq and Afghanistan. It was the largest U.S. Army prepositioning site in the world, [ 1] capable of storing ...
234 km 2 (90 sq mi) Population. (2020) 1,186,023. Time zone. UTC+3 (AST) Ad-Dawhah ( Arabic: الدوحة, ad-Dawḥa or ad-Dōḥa, [addawħa]) is one of the eight municipalities of Qatar. It is the most populous municipality with a population of 1,186,023 in 2020, [ 2][ 3] and is the municipality of Qatar's capital city, Doha .
The state of human rights in Qatar is a concern for several non-governmental organisations, such as the Human Rights Watch (HRW), which reported in 2012 that hundreds of thousands of mostly South Asian migrant workers in construction in Qatar risk serious exploitation and abuse, sometimes amounting to forced labour.
This is a list of cities and towns in Qatar. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Over 60 percent of residents of Qatar live in Doha , the capital. Alphabetical list of cities and towns
The Pearl Island ( Arabic: جزيرة اللؤلؤة, romanized : jazirat alluwlua) in Doha, Qatar, is an artificial island with an area of nearly four square kilometers. It is the first land in Qatar to be available for freehold ownership by foreign nationals. [ 4] As of 2018, there were 27,000 residents.