Population is about 1,641,172 people, the 154th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly one in 4,678 of everyone alive.
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Bahrain
Kingdom of Bahrain ยท ุงูุจุญุฑูู
Asia
ยท Western Asia
0Population
765kmยฒ of land
$23.5KGDP / person
ManamaCapital
- ISO codes
- BH ยท BHR
- Density
- 2,145 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- Arabic
- Currency
- Bahraini dinar (BHD)
- Dial code
- +973
- Internet domain
- .bh
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 26.0560ยฐ N, 50.5550ยฐ E
- Demonym
- Bahraini
- UN region
- Western Asia
- Economy
- Developing region
- Income group
- High income: nonOECD
- Total GDP
- $38.57B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- None
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By the numbers
How Bahrain stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
154th
of 242 ยท 0.02% of world population
Land area
187th
of 242 ยท 0.00% of world land
GDP per person
61st
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
5th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Bahrain
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Covers 765 kmยฒ, making it the 187th largest country here - about 2.4 times the size of Malta.
Population density is about 2,145 people per kmยฒ, among the most crowded countries in the world.
The capital is Manama, at 26.24ยฐ N, 50.58ยฐ E, with a metropolitan population of about 563,920.
Has no land neighbours - it is an island nation, surrounded entirely by water.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, Asia/Bahrain.
The currency is the Bahraini dinar (BHD, symbol .ุฏ.ุจ).
The official language is Arabic.
Dials on +973 and uses the .bh internet domain.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Asia/Bahrain
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UTC+03:00
Cities
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Manama
26.2361ยฐ N, 50.5831ยฐ E
563.92K