Qatar

The State of Qatar (Arabic: قطر), an emirate in the Middle East, occupies a small peninsula off the larger Arabian Peninsula. It borders Saudi Arabia to the south; otherwise the Persian Gulf surrounds the country.

External links

Government

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• Qatar Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Qatar Education Reform Initiative, Supreme Education Council (Arabic) (English)

News

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• Al-Jazeera Arabic broadcaster's English language version
• Gulf Times newspaper

Overviews

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• Main Portal of the State of Qatar
• BBC Country Profile - Qatar
• CIA World Factbook - Qatar
• Library of Congress Country Studies - Qatar data as of December 1993

Directories

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• Arab Gateway - Qatar
• LookSmart - Qatar directory category
• Open Directory Project - Qatar directory category
• Qatar Links directory category
• Yahoo! - Qatar directory category

Tourism

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• {{wikitravel}}
• Qatar Tourism Authority official government tourism site
• Qatar Online Souvenir Store

Other

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• The Doha Debates