A peninsula with the highest GDP per person in the region, built on the world's third largest natural gas reserves.
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Qatar
State of Qatar ยท ูุทุฑ
Asia
ยท Western Asia
0Population
11.59Kkmยฒ of land
$62.09KGDP / person
DohaCapital
- ISO codes
- QA ยท QAT
- Density
- 244 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- Arabic
- Currency
- Qatari riyal (QAR)
- Dial code
- +974
- Internet domain
- .qa
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 25.2370ยฐ N, 51.1440ยฐ E
- Demonym
- Qatari
- UN region
- Western Asia
- Economy
- Developing region
- Income group
- High income: nonOECD
- Total GDP
- $175.84B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 1
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By the numbers
How Qatar stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
141st
of 242 ยท 0.04% of world population
Land area
164th
of 242 ยท 0.01% of world land
GDP per person
18th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
52nd
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Qatar
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 2,832,067 people, the 141st largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly one in 2,711 of everyone alive.
Covers 11,586 kmยฒ, making it the 164th largest country here - about 4.5 times the size of Luxembourg.
Population density is about 244 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Doha, at 25.29ยฐ N, 51.53ยฐ E, with a metropolitan population of about 1,450,000.
Shares land borders with 1 country: Saudi Arabia.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, Asia/Qatar.
The currency is the Qatari riyal (QAR, symbol ุฑ.ู).
The official language is Arabic.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Asia/Qatar
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UTC+03:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
1
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Doha
Ad Dawhah
25.2866ยฐ N, 51.5330ยฐ E
1.45M
Land neighbours
1 country shares a border with Qatar.