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| Official
Name : | DAWLAT
AL-QATAR (State of Qatar) |
| Land
Area: | 11,437
square kilometres / 4,410 square miles. |
| Population: | 863,000
(est July 2005). Density, 78.4 persons per square kilometre. |
| Languages: | Arabic
(official), English. |
| Religions: | Muslim
95% (mostly Wahhabi sect) |
| Capital: | Doha.
Population 342,000 |
| Currency: | Qatari
riyal , divided into 100 dirhams. |
| Independant: | 1971,
from United Kingdom |
| Geography: | Predominantly
low lying arid, barren and monotonous desert of loose gravel and sand dissected
by shallow wadis. Arable land makes up 2% of Qatar. |
