Map of Qatar

Qatar is located in Asia. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 25.5° N, 51.2° E. It shares land borders with 1 country — Saudi Arabia — and also has its own coastline. Within Asia, a continent of 49 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean, Qatar is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Qatar shares land frontiers with the following 1 country. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Qatar covers about 11,586 km² (4,473 sq mi). That makes it the 159th-largest country in the world by area and the 42nd-largest in Asia, larger by area than 7 of the continent’s 49 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 3,173,024, the 135th-largest in the world and the 42nd-largest in Asia, accounting for about 0.1% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Qatar has an average population density of about 274 people per km². Among the 49 countries of Asia it stands 42nd by population and 42nd by area.

The seat of government is Doha, and the official currency is the Qatari riyal (QAR, ر.ق), and the main official language is Arabic. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC+03:00.

Qatar carries the ISO country codes QA and QAT, dials on the international calling code +974 and uses the .qa, قطر. internet domain.

Qatar shares its land borders with 1 country, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are Saudi Arabia (capital Riyadh, about 35,300,280 people).

By area, Qatar is larger than 0 of these neighbours and smaller than 1 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 25.5° N, 51.2° E and opens at zoom level 8, framing Qatar within Asia. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Doha. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Qatar lies about 2,830 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

Qatar keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+03:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +03:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Qatari riyal (QAR, ر.ق).

The official language is Arabic, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +974 and websites commonly use the .qa, قطر. internet domain.

In short, Qatar is a coastal country in Asia, sharing land borders with 1 country. Its capital is Doha. Qatar has a population of about 3,173,024 and covers around 11,586 km² (4,473 sq mi), ranking it 135th in the world by population and 159th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Qatar.

The flag of Qatar has a maroon field, on the hoist side of which is a white vertical band that spans about one-third the width of the field and is separated from the rest of the field by nine adjoining fly-side pointing white isosceles triangles that serve as a serrated line.

The flag of Qatar is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.