QATAR


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Flag

Emblem

Territory
11,581 km2 (158th)

Capital
Doha

Language
Arabic

Motto
'State of Qatar'

National Flower
Qataf (Limonium)

National Animal
Arabian oryx (Oryx leucoryx)







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Qatar Flag

Qatar, formally the State of Qatar, is a nation situated in Western Asia, involving the little Qatar Peninsula on the northeastern bank of the Arabian Peninsula. Whether the sovereign state ought to be viewed as an established or an outright government is questioned. Its sole land fringe is with neighboring Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) government Saudi Arabia toward the south, with the remainder of its region encompassed by the Persian Gulf. An arm of the Persian Gulf isolates Qatar from the close-by Bahrain. Islam is the official religion of Qatar. The nation has the most noteworthy per capita pay on the planet. Qatar is arranged by the UN as a nation of high human improvement and is broadly viewed as the most progressive Arab state for human advancement. Qatar has been managed by the House of Thani since Mohammed receptacle Thani marked an arrangement with the British in 1868 that perceived its different status. Following Ottoman principle, Qatar turned into a British protectorate in the mid twentieth century until picking up autonomy in 1971. In 2003, the constitution was overwhelmingly affirmed in a submission, with practically 98% in support.


Emblem


Qatar Emblem

Territory


Qatar Map

11,581 km2 (158th)


Capital


Qatar Capital

Doha

Doha is the capital and most crowded city of the State of Qatar. Doha has a populace of 1,850,000 in the city appropriate with the populace near 2.4 million. The city is situated on the shore of the Persian Gulf in the east of the nation. It is Qatar's quickest developing city, with over 80% of the country's populace living in Doha or its encompassing rural areas, and it is likewise the financial focal point of the nation. Doha was established during the 1820s as a branch of Al Bidda. It was authoritatively proclaimed as the nation's capital in 1971, when Qatar picked up freedom from being a British Protectorate. As the business capital of Qatar and one of the new budgetary focuses in the Middle East, Doha is viewed as a world city.


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Qatar Languague

Arabic



Motto


Qatar Motto

'State of Qatar'



National Flower of Qatar


Qatar National Flower

Qataf (Limonium)

Limonium is a class of 120 blooming plant species. Individuals are otherwise called ocean lavender, statice, caspia or swamp rosemary. Regardless of their normal names, species are not identified with the lavenders or to rosemary. Typically develop as herbaceous lasting plants, developing 10– 70 cm tall from a rhizome; a couple are woody bushes up to 2 meters tall. Numerous species thrive in saline soils, and are consequently normal close drifts and in salt swamps, and furthermore on saline, gypsum and soluble soils in mainland insides. The leaves are straightforward, whole to lobed, and from 1– 30 cm long and 0.5– 10 cm wide; the greater part of the leaves are created in a thick basal rosette, with the blooming stems bearing just little darker scale-leaves (bracts). The blossoms are delivered on a fanned panicle or corymb, the individual blooms are small(4– 10 mm long) with a five-lobed calyx and corolla, and five stamens; the bloom shading is pink or violet to purple in many species, white or yellow in a couple. A large number of the species are apomictic. The organic product is a little case containing a solitary seed, somewhat encased by the industrious calyx.


National Animal of Qatar


Qatar National Animal

Arabian oryx (Oryx leucoryx)

The Arabian oryx or white (Oryx leucoryx) is a medium-sized gazelle with an unmistakable shoulder knock, long, straight horns, and a tufted tail. It is a bovid, and the littlest individual from the sort Oryx, local to leave and steppe territories of the Arabian Peninsula. The Arabian oryx was terminated in the wild by the mid 1970s, yet was spared in zoos and private jelly, and was reintroduced into the wild beginning in 1980. An Arabian oryx remains around 1 m (39 in) high at the shoulder and weighs around 70 kg (150 lb). Its jacket is a practically iridescent white, the undersides and legs are darker, and dark stripes happen where the head meet the neck, on the forehead, on the nose, and going starting from the horn over the eye to the mouth. Both genders have long, straight or somewhat bended, ringed horns which are 50 to 75 cm (20 to 30 in) long. Arabian oryx rest amid the warmth of the day and can distinguish precipitation and move towards it, which means they have colossal reaches; a group in Oman can extend more than 3,000 km2 (1,200 sq mi). Crowds are of blended sex and for the most part contain somewhere in the range of two and 15 creatures, however groups up to 100 have been reported. Arabian oryx are commonly not forceful toward each other, which enables groups to exist gently for some time.


Demonym(s)

Qatari

Population

2,641,669
(2017 estimate)

Currency

Riyal (QAR)

Time Zone

UTC+3 (AST)

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