For thousands of years the land of the Qataris was a poverty stricken and sometimes uninhabited backwater, almost universally ignored in favor of the more bountiful Bahrain next door. Yet in the last sixty years the Qatari nation have been propelled from pearl divers and nomads struggling to survive to the richest nation on Earth.
Qatar is located in the Middle East, jutting out from the North East coast of Saudi Arabia. To the East of Qatar lies Dubai, and to the West, Bahrain.
Population: 1,560,000 (Qatar Statistics authority 2008).This is double the number reported in the 2004 census. The vast majority of these are expat workers, with the native Qatari population estimated at around 200,000.
GDP: $67.76 billion (2007 est.) In 2007 Qatar had the highest per capita income in the world.
Capital: Doha.
Currency: Riyal (1 riyal = 100 dirhams)
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