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An 1824 map showing Ras Laffan Satellite imagery of Ras Laffan in 2006. The earliest-known English text to describe Ras Laffan was in the 1890 book The Persian Gulf Pilot, published by the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office. It recounts only geographic features, implying that the area was not settled at the time. [2]
The capital, Doha, is located on the central east coast on a sweeping (if shallow) harbor. [1] Other ports include Umm Said, Al Khawr, and Al Wakrah. Only Doha and Umm Said are capable of handling commercial shipping, although a large port and a terminal for loading natural gas are planned at Ras Laffan Industrial City, north of Al Khawr. [1]
Zone 75 is a zone of the municipality of Al Khor and Al Thakhira in Qatar.The main districts recorded in the 2015 population census were Al Thakhira, Ras Laffan, and Umm Birka.
The offshore pipeline from Ras Laffan to Taweelah in the UAE (export pipeline) was designed by Saipem, an Italian contractor for the oil and gas industry, and the pipes were supplied by Mitsui of Japan. The 48-inch (1,200 mm) pipeline has capacity of 90.6 billion cubic metres (3.20 trillion cubic feet) of natural gas per year. [3]
The Pearl Island, when completed. The Pearl Island (Arabic: جزيرة اللؤلؤة, romanized: jazirat alluwlua) in Doha, Qatar, is an artificial island with an area of nearly 4 square kilometres (1.5 sq mi).
Zekreet opened its first primary school for boys in 1957 with a capacity of 45 students, making it the first settlement in the region to establish a formal school. In 1960, the village's first primary school for girls was founded with roughly 26 seats.
Al Khor (Arabic: الخور; also spelled Al Khawr), officially Al Khor and Al Thakhira, is a municipality in northeastern Qatar. Al Khor City, the municipal seat, is located on the northeast coast of Qatar, around 50 kilometres (31 miles) from the capital, Doha and is considered to be one of Qatar's the major cities. [2]
Also included in its constituency is part of Simaisma, Umm Birka, and Ras Laffan. [18] In the inaugural municipal elections in 1999, Ali Hassan Al-Mohannadi won the elections, receiving 34.4%, or 65 votes. The runner-up candidate was Salem Abdullah Al-Shahwani, whose share of the votes was 19.3%, or 42 votes. Voter turnout was 90.5%. [17]