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Doha (Arabic: الدوحة, romanized: ad-Dawḥah [ædˈdæwħæ,-ˈdoː-]) is the capital city and main financial hub of Qatar.Located on the Persian Gulf coast in the east of the country, north of Al Wakrah and south of Al Khor and Lusail, it is home to most of the country's population. [1]
Because of its oil and natural gas resources, Qatar is among the world's richest countries. Indonesian president, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, paid a state visit in 2006 to Doha, to attract Qatari businesses to invest in Indonesia, while Qatar's emir, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, visited Jakarta in 2009. [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 .
From 1981 to 1985, Doha Municipality invested QAR 371 million into large-scale developments in the city and QAR 136 million into developing and maintaining parks and landscaping. [12] By 1986, Doha's total cultivated land area had increased to 1,002,364 square meters, spread across 180 agricultural projects throughout the city.
Indonesia and Qatar established bilateral relations in 1976. [285] The two countries have signed a number of memorandums of understanding in the fields of air transport, tourism, and agriculture. [286] Indonesia has an embassy in Doha. Qatar has an embassy in Jakarta. Iran: October 1971: See Iran–Qatar relations
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Doha Bay with the capital city of Doha in the background View over Doha Bay from above View of Doha in the early 20th century. Doha Bay is the semicircular bay bordering Qatar's capital city, Doha. The city was established on the south bank of the bay. [1] Landfill has been used to extend and expand the city to the north around the edge of the ...
The Doha Metropolitan Area has seen substantial growth since the 1980s, marking when Qatar began investing its hydrocarbon wealth into developing its infrastructure on a major scale. From 1984 to 2020, the metropolitan area expanded eightfold while the amount of bare land decreased by half.