Qatar Municipalities

Municipalities of Qatar

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Updates:

I found a source for the 2004 Census of Qatar. It showed Umm Sa'id as a separate municipality. I've updated the table accordingly.

FIPS Publication Change Notice No. 9, affecting FIPS PUB 10-4, was issued on 2004-10-01. According to it, a new municipality named Umm Sa'id has been formed from parts of Al Wakrah and Jariyan al Batnah.

Country overview:

Short name	QATAR
ISO code	QA
FIPS code	QA
Language	Arabic (ar)
Time zone	+3
Capital	Doha

The emirate of Qatar became a British protectorate on 1916-11-03. It became fully independent on 1971-09-03.

Other names of country:

Arabic: Dawlat Qatar (formal)
Danish: Qatar
Dutch: Qatar, Staat Qatar (formal)
English: State of Qatar (formal), Katar (obsolete)
Finnish: Qatar
French: Qatar m
German: Katar n
Icelandic: Katar
Italian: Qatar m
Norwegian: Qatar, Staten Qatar (formal)
Portuguese: Qatar, Catar (Brazil), Estado m do Qatar m (formal)
Spanish: Qatar, Estado m de Qatar (formal)
Swedish: Qatar
Turkish: Katar, Katar Devleti (formal)

Primary subdivisions:

Qatar is divided into ten baladiyat (sing: baladiyah; municipalities).

Municipality	HASC	ISO	FIPS	Population	Area(km.²)	Area(mi.²)	Capital
Ad Dawhah	`QA.DA`	`DA`	`QA01`	339,847	132	51	Doha
Al Ghuwariyah	`QA.GH`	`GH`	`QA02`	2,159	622	240	Al Ghuwayriyah
Al Jumaliyah	`QA.JU`	`JU`	`QA03`	10,303	2,565	990	Al Jumayliyah
Al Khawr	`QA.KH`	`KH`	`QA04`	31,547	996	385	Al Khawr
Al Wakrah	`QA.AW`	`WA`	`QA10`	31,441	1,114	430	Al Wakrah
Ar Rayyan	`QA.RA`	`RA`	`QA06`	272,860	889	343	Ar Rayyan
Jariyan al Batnah	`QA.JR`	`JB`	`QA11`	6,678	3,715	1,434	Umm Bab
Madinat ach Shamal	`QA.MS`	`MS`	`QA08`	4,915	901	348	Dukhan
Umm Sa'id	`QA.UD`		`QA12`	12,674			Umm Sa'id
Umm Salal	`QA.US`	`US`	`QA09`	31,605	493	190	Umm Silal'ait
10 municipalities				744,029	11,427	4,412
HASC: Hierarchical administrative subdivision codes. ISO: Codes from ISO 3166-2. FIPS: Codes from FIPS PUB 10-4, a U.S. government standard. Population: 2004-03-16 census. Area: Provided by Karem Abdalla (before Umm Sa'id split).

Territorial extent:

Qatar occupies a peninsula in the Persian Gulf, and neighboring reefs and islets. It disputes the Hawar Islands with Bahrain. If Qatar's claim is valid, the Hawar Islands are in Al Jumaliyah municipality.

Origins of names:

Ad-Dawhah: Arabic ad-dawha: the big tree

Change history:

~2001: Umm Sa'id municipality formed from parts of Al Wakrah (former HASC code QA.WA, FIPS code QA05) and Jariyan al Batnah (QA.JB, QA07).

Other names of subdivisions:

There are various systems in use for transliterating from the Arabic to the Latin alphabet. The variant names listed here are just a sampling.

Ad Dawhah: Doha (variant)
Al Ghuwariyah: Al Ghuwayriyah
Al Jumaliyah: Al Gummayalah, Al Gummaylah, Al Jumaylīyah (variant)
Al Khawr: Al Khor (variant)
Ar Rayyan: Al Rayyan
Jariyan al Batnah: Jarayan al Batinah, Jarayān al Baţnah, Jarayan al Batnah, Jerian al Betna, Jeryan al Batn (variant)
Madinat ach Shamal: Al Shamal, Ash Shamāl (variant)
Umm Sa'id: Mesaieed (variant)
Umm Salal: Um Salal, Umm Ṣalāl (variant)

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