Qatar country guide — reviewed 20 October 2026

MAP SCOPE
The city deck contains sixteen selected settlement centres in two informal
learning groups. It does not show municipal boundaries. Qatar has eight
municipalities; Mesaieed is a city in Al Wakrah Municipality. Al Jumailiyah
is different from the abandoned village Al Jumail. Spellings vary between
Arabic transliterations. Zoom in to distinguish nearby northern towns.

LAND OUTLINE
geoBoundaries gbOpen QAT ADM0, boundary QAT-ADM0-15585745, representing 2017.
Upstream: OpenStreetMap/Wambacher; Open Data Commons ODbL 1.0.
https://www.geoboundaries.org/api/current/gbOpen/QAT/ADM0/
https://github.com/wmgeolab/geoBoundaries/raw/9469f09/releaseData/gbOpen/QAT/ADM0/geoBoundaries-QAT-ADM0.geojson
https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright
https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1-0/
Original snapshot: scripts/qatar-outline-source.geojson
Metadata: scripts/qatar-outline-metadata.json
Transformation: Turf simplify, tolerance 0.00005 degrees, highQuality true.
Build: node scripts/build-qatar-map.mjs
The 2017 reference is generalised and can omit later coastal reclamation.
It is a learning outline, not a current cadastral or maritime survey.

SETTLEMENT COORDINATES
GeoNames Qatar country export, retrieved 20 October 2026.
https://download.geonames.org/export/dump/QA.zip
https://www.geonames.org/export/
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
The sixteen selected records, original names, record URLs and coordinates
are retained in scripts/qatar-map-places.json. Clues and notes are authored
for Worldly. Coordinates are settlement reference points, not entrances.

SIGHTS
Sixteen representative learning locations. Coordinate references and
institutional map links: scripts/qatar-sight-sources.json.
Al Zubarah's pin marks the town ruins rather than the 1938 fort. Qatar
National Library uses the present Education City building. Khor Al Adaid's
pin identifies a tidal inlet; it need not fall on land. Mangrove and souq
pins identify representative locations, not routes, launches or entrances.
https://qm.org.qa/en/visit/heritage-sites/al-zubarah/
https://qm.org.qa/en/visit/heritage-sites/al-jassasiya-rock-art-site/
https://qm.org.qa/en/visit/public-art/richard-serra-east-west-west-east/
https://www.mecc.gov.qa/English/AwarenessandMedia/Pages/Al-Thakhira-Reserve.aspx
https://www.qf.org.qa/education/education-city

READING
https://www.gco.gov.qa/en/state-of-qatar/facts-about-qatar/
https://www.gco.gov.qa/en/state-of-qatar/the-constitution/
https://www.shura.qa/en/Pages/About-Council/History
https://www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/2024-11-26/qatar-constitutional-amendments-approved/
https://whc.unesco.org/en/statesparties/qa/
https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1402/
https://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/5317/
https://www.qatarenergy.qa/en/Whatwedo/Pages/ExplorationandProduction.aspx
https://www.qcb.gov.qa/en/Pages/HistoryOfBanknotes.aspx
https://www.almeezan.qa/LawArticles.aspx?LawArticleID=61583&LawID=4782&language=en
https://visitqatar.com/intl-en/about-qatar/cuisine
https://visitqatar.com/intl-en/about-qatar/traditions
https://www.npc.qa/en/statistics/census2020/Pages/results/default.aspx
https://www.qf.org.qa/about

PHOTOGRAPHS
Ten existing, separately credited Qatar topic images are reused from
public/images/facts-asia/qa/. Their authors, licences, descriptions and
Wikimedia source pages remain in src/lib/asian-facts-heroes.json.
The separate banner shows Porto Arabia on The Pearl in November 2013:
Alex Sergeev, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Pearl_Marina_in_Nov_2013.jpg
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
The local JPEG is the unmodified original; responsive display crops it.
It records a historical view rather than claiming to show current construction.