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ID: 7003978
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7003978
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Ad Dawḥah (inhabited place)  Ad Dawḥah (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 25 15 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 25.2500  decimal degrees
Long: 051 36 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 51.6000  decimal degrees

Note: Approximately 2/3 of the nation's inhabitants live here; city and municipality are coextensive; was base of pirate activity in Persian Gulf; was ruined in war with Bahrain 1867; oil reserves were developed after WW II; airport located southeast of city.

Names:
Ad Dawḥah (preferred,C,V)
Ad-Dawḥah (C,V)
Ad Dawhah (C,V)
ad-Dawḥah (C,V)
Ad-Dawhah (C,V)
Doha (C,O)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Asia (continent)  ....  Asia (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Qatar (nation)  ........  Qatar (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Ad Dawḩah (municipality)  ............  Ad Dawḩah (municipality) (P)
Hierarchy of Ad Dawḥah (inhabited place)  ................  Ad Dawḥah (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)
city (C)
national capital (C)
port (C)

Related geographic places:
capital of ....  Qatar .......... (nation)
..................  (World, Asia) [1000136]

Sources and Contributors:
Ad-Dawḥah..........  [VP Preferred]
....................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) IV, 152-153
....................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 7
Ad Dawḥah..........  [VP]
....................  Times Atlas of the World (1985) plate 33
Ad Dawhah..........  [VP]
....................  Times Atlas of World History (1993) 335
ad-Dawḥah..........  [VP]
....................  Britannica Book of the Year (1992) 685
Ad-Dawhah..........  [VP]
....................  Forces: U.S. & Coalition /Army. U.S. Defense Department, CNN (2003)
Doha..........  [VP]
...........  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984) 992
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Britannica Book of the Year (1992) 685
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) IV, 152-153
..................  Forces: U.S. & Coalition /Army. U.S. Defense Department, CNN (2003)
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1985) plate 33
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 7
..................  Times Atlas of World History (1993) 335
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984) 992
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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