Qatar Qatar, with its capital Doha, is located in the Middle East. It occupies 11,437 square miles (4,415 square miles) on a peninsula bordering the Persian Gulf and Saudi Arabia. Qatar's population numbers some 817,052 people, most of whom live...

State of Qatar Dawlat Qatar CAPITAL: Doha (Ad-Dawhah) FLAG: Maroon with white serrated border at the hoist. ANTHEM: Qatar National Anthem. MONETARY UNIT: The Qatar riyal (QR) of 100 dirhams was introduced on 13 May 1973. There are coins of 1, 5, 10,...

Qatar POPULATION 793,341 MUSLIM (PREDOMINANTLY SUNNI WITH SOME SHIITE) 92 to 95 percent OTHER (CHRISTIAN, HINDU, BAHAI) 5 to 8 percent Country Overview Introduction The State of Qatar, located on a small peninsula in the Persian Gulf, shares a border...

Qatar (Arabic: قطر ; IPA: [ˈqɑtˁɑr][1]), officially the State of Qatar (Arabic: دولة قطر transliterated as Dawlat Qatar), is an Arab emirate in Southwest Asia, occupying the small Qatar Peninsula on the northeasterly coast of the larger...

Highlights and Key Issues * Real GDP is expected to grow by just over 8% both this year and next after the outturn of 6% last year. A faster rise in LNG production and exports and development of the petrochemical sector will be...

If you want a glimpse of where the Arab world may be heading if the modernizers succeed in their efforts to embrace change, take a look at the tiny Persian Gulf nation of Qatar. It's about as close as the Arab world comes to...

The Qatar Investment Authority said Thursday it had acquired a 20 percent stake in the London Stock Exchange, the same day that Borse Dubai announced a deal to acquire the Nasdaq Stock Market's 28 percent stake in the LSE.Terms of the Qatar deal were not...

Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Shimon Peres launched the highest-level visit of an Israeli to the Gulf region in more than a decade, traveling to Qatar Monday to appear in a television debate show.Peres will spend two days in the country, where he will answer "tough...