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Hawar Islands
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Key facts
- Location
- Gulf of Bahrain
- Adjacent to
- Persian Gulf
- Major islands
- Hawar Island
- Area
- 52 km (20 sq mi)
- Highest elevation
- 22 m (72 ft)
- Governorate
- Southern Governorate , ISO Code BH-14
- Time zone
- AST ( UTC+3 )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- archipelago
- Country
- Qatar
- Located in
- Al-Shahaniya
- Area
- 52
- Elevation
- 22
- Body of water
- Gulf of Bahrain
- Image
- Qatar 31 January 2003.jpg
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- Commons category
- Hawar Islands
- heritage designation
- Tentative World Heritage Site
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Encyclopedic overview
The Hawar Islands (Arabic: جزر حوار; transliterated: Juzur Ḥawār) are an archipelago of desert islands; all but one are owned by Bahrain, while the southern, small, and uninhabited Jinan Island (Arabic: جزيرة جينان; transliterated: Jazīratu Jīnan) is administered by Qatar as part of its Al-Shahaniya municipality. The archipelago is situated off the west coast of Qatar in the Gulf of Bahrain of the Persian Gulf.
Description
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hawar Islands” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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