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Qatar

Qatar is one of the 193 UN member states, in Western Asia. UN Tourism counted 2.1 million international arrivals there in 2019, more visited than 51% of the 199 places with figures, so its stamp in Globestamp is printed in Colour-shift.

Qatar’s stamp in Globestamp
Colour-shift · 2 to 6 million visitors a year
International arrivals
2.1 millionin 2019, UN Tourism
Rank by visitors
98th of 199most visited first
Stamp finish
Colour-shiftrarer than 49%
Area
11,173 km² (4,314 sq mi)
Population
2.8 millionNatural Earth estimate
Municipalitys
7in Globestamp’s regions layer
Airports
2with scheduled flights
World Heritage Sites
1on Globestamp’s list

Does Qatar count as a country?

Yes. Qatar is one of the 193 UN member states, so every common list counts it: the UN’s 193, Globestamp’s 250 and the Travelers’ Century Club’s 330.

ListCounts Qatar?
UN member states (193)Yes, a member
Globestamp’s countries and territories (250)Yes
Travelers’ Century Club (330)Yes, as Qatar
European UnionNo
Schengen areaNo

The Qatar stamp

Every country in Globestamp has its own stamp, drawn after a real entry stamp. Its finish shows how few travelers get there. Qatar’s is Colour-shift: one colour straight on, another at an angle, the finish for places with 2 to 6 million visitors a year. With 2.1 million international arrivals in 2019, Qatar is more visited than 51% of the 199 places with figures. See every stamp on the stamp wall, or the rarest on the least-visited countries.

What counts as a visit to Qatar

The common rule among travelers is that you set foot there: an airport layover usually doesn’t count, and a port where you went ashore does. Globestamp counts Qatar when one of your photos was taken on its ground, or just off its coast; a photo taken from a plane never counts. Photos only at an airport make a transit stamp in lighter ink, counted only if you count layovers. Read more in how to count the countries you’ve visited.

Places in Qatar you can collect

Under the country itself, Globestamp keeps layers of places on your globe, and a photo taken at one ticks it. These are the ones it knows in Qatar, from 1 World Heritage Site.

World Heritage Sites 1

Zubarah (2013). On the bucket list →

Largest cities

CityPeople (urban area)
Doha1,450,000

Airports

Qatar has 2 airports with scheduled flights, 2 of them large. Each is a dot on Globestamp’s airports layer, and every flight you log adds to how far you’ve flown (try the flight distance calculator).

7 municipalitys to fill in

Globestamp goes deeper than countries: its regions layer splits Qatar into 7 municipalitys (Natural Earth’s first-level divisions), and each one fills in when a photo was taken there.

All 7

Al Daayen · Al Khor · Al Rayyan · Al Wakrah · Doha · Madinat ash Shamal · Umm Salal

Questions people ask

Is Qatar a country?

Yes. Qatar is one of the 193 UN member states, so every common list counts it: the UN’s 193, Globestamp’s 250 and the Travelers’ Century Club’s 330.

How many tourists visit Qatar a year?

UN Tourism (via the World Bank) counted 2,136,500 international arrivals in Qatar in 2019, the 98th most of the 199 places with figures. Countries count arrivals in different ways (some include day-trippers and cruise passengers), so treat it as a rough rank rather than an exact number of tourists.

How rare is a Qatar stamp in Globestamp?

It is printed in Colour-shift, the finish for places with 2 to 6 million visitors a year, rarer than 49% of the places with figures. The fewer travelers a place receives, the rarer its finish, from plain Ink to Mythic.

Does Qatar count for the Travelers’ Century Club?

Yes. The Travelers’ Century Club counts it as “Qatar”, one of its 330 destinations.

Places as rare as Qatar

Near Qatar

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