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   Note: This section last updated 14th March 2021

   1,234.45

(where . indicates the decimal separator and , the thousands separator)

   ۱٫۲۳۴٬۴۵

(where ٬ indicates the decimal separator and ٫ the thousands separator)

   Note: This section last updated 1st June 2021

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   14:32 

The national language is Standard Arabic . About 103 600 people speak Gulf Spoken Arabic . There are also 73 000 Western Farsi -speakers in Qatar.

   Note: This section last updated 7th August 2016

Qatari company types include:

   Branch
   Commendite Partnership by Share
   Joint Venture
   Limited Liability Company (LLC)
   Partnership
   Partnership in Commendum
   Public Shareholding Company (PSC)
   Representative Office
   With Limited Liability (WLL)   

   Comprehensive tables of these strings can be acquired – see http:www.grcdi.nl/addresses.htm 

   Note: This section last updated 21st August 2015

Recipients without a PO Box may use a “Zero PO Box” service, where they can collect their post from the post office. In these cases the address block must contain the recipient’s telephone number so that they can be notified that a postal item has arrived.

Streets in urban areas are often numbered, with the same numbers appearing in different districts of the same urban area. The government is working to alter this situation for Doha, to give each street a name, allowing house-to-house deliveries.

Plaques like these may be found on buildings showing their zone, street and building numbers.

Qatar is creating an area referencing system called Onwani – plaques, like those above, contain a chip containing the Onwani number, and are a part of this project. The area referencing system is a 10-digit number which is linked via a database to a location using GIS co-ordinates. The first two numbers indicate a zone, the next four a street number (front-padded with zeroes when the street number has less than 4-digits), and the final four the house number (also front-padded with zeroes as required). The plaque above, for example, would have the number:

   6008200019

As they are positional codes rather than postal codes in the traditional sense, I do not categorise them as postal codes in this resource.

   A table containing information about the relevant position of elements within address blocks can be acquired 

This is written PO Box.

There is no postal code system in Qatar.

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   Note: This section last updated 18th April 2017

Refer to Exonyms in Qatar for full lists of place names in Qatar in other languages.

   Alternate place name forms/postal code tables can be acquired at http://www.grcdi.nl/settlements.htm 

   Other language place name data can be acquired at http://www.grcdi.nl/otherlanguageplace.htm 

   Note: This section last updated 21st September 2017

Qatar has 8 municipalities (baladiyat, singular - baladiyah):

    Ad Dawhah (Doha, الدوحة) 
    Al Daayen (الضعاين) 
    Al Khor (الخور) 
    Al Rayyan (الريان) 
    Al Shamal (الشمال) 
    Al Wakrah (الوكرة) 
    Al-Shahaniya (الشحانية) 
    Umm Salal (أم صلال) 

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   Note: This section last updated 11th October 2011

Qatari telephone numbers have no area codes. Subscriber numbers have 8 digits (from 28th July 2010 - before that, 7 digits). Mobile numbers begin with a 3, 5, 6 or 7.