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. Most of the land area is made up of flat, low-lying desert.Official languagesGovernment authoritarian LegislatureCurrency ()OverviewQatar, officially the State of Qatar, is a country in. It occupies the on the northeastern coast of the in the ; it shares with to the sout. , a Roman writer, documented the earliest account pertaining to the inhabitants of the peninsula around the mid-first century AD; he referred to them as the Catharrei, a designation that may have d.
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