Qatar

the State Qatar is had on the peninsula with the same name in southwest Asia and from three parties is flowed about by waters of Persian gulf. In the south Qatar bounds with Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. The square - 11  thousand sq. km. The population - 521  thousand persons, in the core Arabs. The state religion - Islam. An official language - Arabian. Capital - the Fur-coat.

Landscapes of Qatar do not differ the special luminance. The country north represents the low sandy plain covered with moving dunes; the median part of peninsula is stony desert covered with a pebble and places by saline soils; in the south - high sandy hills.

The Climate of Qatar continental, tropical. In the summer the temperature is quite often lifted to 50  °C, rather cool season lasts since December on the beginning of March. The season of rains begins in November and comes to an end in May. A mid-annual precipitation in the south - 55  mm, in the north - 125  mm a year.

The Peninsula is poor water. Oases are rather rare and insignificant. Suitable lands for agricultural use compound approximately 10 % also are in the core in the north of the country where there are underground sources of sweet water. The availability of water allows to cultivate date and coconut palm trees, panicum, corn, a sorghum, vegetables.

By Animal husbandry are occupied nomadic and seminomad tribes who breed camels, sheep and goats. Neritic waters of Qatar are rich with fish and shrimps who play an essential role in a feed of the population and are used as a sterns for cattle and an auk.

The Basis of economy of modern Qatar is defined by a petroleum industry, with the oil production centre in a city the Dukhan.

80 % of the population of the country bunk at cities. Capital, main port of the country, important industrial, cultural and shopping centre - a city the Fur-coat (217  thousand inhabitants). Other rather large cities - petroleum and trading port Umm-Said and Zikrit - shoal port at the western coast.