Qatar is located on the Qatar Peninsula on the southwest coast of the Persian Gulf, with a tropical desert climate, low terrain and abundant oil and gas resources.
1. Qatar's pillar industry here at the beginning was pearl diving, which mainly relied on fishing for pearls on the bottom of the sea to make a living. Offshore the Persian Gulf are wide shoals that are a great place for pearl mussels to produce and breed.
2. The flag of Qatar is the only flag in the world that is more than twice its width, with white on one side and dark brown on the other, with a jagged connection and nine white teeth.
3, Qatar Al Jazeera is very famous, is one of the three major TV stations in the world, the other two are CNN and BBC. What makes it so famous is that almost all the blockbuster news in the Middle East is broadcast by Al Jazeera.
In Qatar, there are 3 times as many men as women. In 2021, there were 2.93 million permanent residents here, but only 370,000 locals, and the rest came here to work, and most of the people who came to work here were men, but even if these laborers are subtracted, there are also more men than women.
5. Qatar is an extremely water-scarce country, drought and little rain throughout the year, the average annual precipitation is less than 100 mm, but the evaporation reaches 2000 mm per year, water is more expensive than oil, drinking water is basically imported.
6. Qataris love to keep eagle falcons as pets, travel and travel by plane will take eagle falcons, and also specially built a five-star falcon pet hospital and beauty salon.
7. Qatar's national treasure is the Arabian oryx, which can grow in harsh desert climates and is now a rare animal, which appears on the Qatar Airways logo.
8. Now we have two national treasure pandas also living in Qatar, one is a three-year-old beauty "Four Seas", the other is a four-year-old boy "Jingjing", and the two will live here for 15 years.
9. Qatari men can marry four wives, and the government will reward 70,000 yuan when local people get married, 35,000 yuan when they give birth, free education and medical expenses, and free water, electricity and gas.
10. There is no personal income tax, transportation tax or other taxes in Qatar, even foreign workers do not have to pay taxes, and the corporate tax rate is 10%.
11. Don't praise others casually in Qatar, especially other people's wives, because praise here is what you want.
12. The island of Al Khor in Qatar is known as the "Purple Island" because it was the first place in the world to produce purple shellfish dyes.
13. Spiders cannot be killed here in Qatar, because locals believe that spiders can protect the house from fire.
14. Qatar got rich mainly on oil and gas. Natural gas reserves are the third largest in the world, after Russia and Iran, and half of the country's land area is gas fields. Crude oil reserves rank 14th in the world. There is also a category that ranks second in the world in nitrogen reserves and is the largest nitrogen exporter.
15. Qatar's per capita GDP has reached 69,000 US dollars, ranking fifth in the world, but Qatar is not a developed country because of underdeveloped manufacturing and industry.
16. Qataris like slightly spicy food, and braised broad beans are the locals' favorite food for breakfast, "Hamula" is a famous dish in Qatar, and "dipping prawns" is a local specialty soup.
17. The capital Doha is a "sports city", hosting the 2006 Asian Games, the 2022 World Cup competitions, the 2011 Arab Games, the first World Beach Games in 2019, the 2030 Asian Games and so on.
18. Qatar is an absolute monarchy of the emirate, the monarch is called the emir, and it is hereditary to a family called Al Thani.
19. Qatar's divorce rate is very high, almost 40%, because men can leave at any time if they want to divorce, and women's status is very low, but the bachelor rate is also very high.
20, Qatar's Princess Moza has a nickname called the Middle East "Wu Zetian", she is the second wife of King Hamad, originally the daughter of a Qatari nobleman, only because her father angered the old king was imprisoned, Mozart and his mother were expelled, and later accidentally with the then crown prince Hamad, and later let her husband launch a coup to overthrow the old king and rescue his father.
21. Qatar is not well developed in public transportation, and a subway has been built for the World Cup, but locals basically do not need it, because there are several private cars.
22. To open a company in Qatar, foreigners must have a joint venture, and the local person in the joint venture must hold more than 50% of the shares, so there must be at least one local partner.
23. There is an oversized teddy bear weighing 20 tons at Hamad International Airport in Doha, Qatar, which was bought at an auction in New York in 2011 for $6.8 million.
24. Qatar has no railways, there are 5 airports in the territory and all of them are international routes, Qatar Airways is very famous.
25. Qatar is now engaged in an industry that is investment, now controlling 20% of the global sports market, investing in Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse Bank, German Volkswagen Group, Valentino and so on.
26. The Museum of Islamic Art, located on an artificial island off the coast of Doha, is currently the most comprehensive museum dedicated to Islamic art, designed by the world-renowned architect I.M. Pei.
27. Working hours in Qatar are Sunday to Thursday, of which Friday and Saturday are closed.
28 One of the most popular sports in Qatar is camel racing, where the traditional rider is children, but now robots are being used instead of children as riders.
29.85% of Qatar's foreigners come to work here, mainly Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi people.
30. Qatar is a Muslim country, eating pork and drinking alcohol is strictly prohibited, and there is also a caning penalty here, that is, the punishment for drinking.