Qatar

Qatar

Qatar ranks 142nd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind The Bahamas, Faroe Islands, and Martinique. Memorable people born in present day Qatar include Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, Isaac of Nineveh, and Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani. Memorable people who died in Qatar include Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani, and Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev. Qatar has been the birth place of many politicians and soccer players and the death place of many politicians and religious figures.

Qatar, officially the State of Qatar, is a country in West Asia. It occupies the Qatar Peninsula on the northeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula in the Middle East; it shares its sole land border with Saudi Arabia to the south, with the rest of its territory surrounded by the Persian Gulf. The Gulf of Bahrain, an inlet of the Persian Gulf, separates Qatar from nearby Bahrain. The capital is Doha, home to over 80% of the country's inhabitants, and the land area is mostly made up of flat, low-lying desert. Read more on Wikipedia