Al-Wukayr

Al Wukair is a town in Qatar, located in Al Wakrah Municipality. It is 15 minutes faraway from Doha and is positioned near the metropolis of Al Wakrah. It changed into formerly a outstanding fishing and pearling village. It was demarcated in 1988. Similar to neighboring Al Wakrah City, the town's call originates from the Arabic time period "wakar", which means chook's nest. This changed into name was acquired from the considerable birds' nests gift in the area. Qatar's capital, Doha, is placed at a distance of 23 km to the north. Other distances consist of Al Wakrah  8 km to the east, Umm Salal Ali 50 km to the north, Madinat ash Shamal one hundred thirty km away, Al Khor eighty km away, Mesaieed 18 km away, and Dukhan – 66.5 km away.

In 2015, creation commenced on a housing village for worker's placed on a 150,000 squaremeter plot of land in Al Wukair. The Public Works Authority embarked on a QR 1.5 billion in Al Wukair South in April 2018, with an envisioned finishing touch date of 2020. Among the infrastructural upgrades may be a further 166 km of sewage networks, 310 km of water networks, 172 km of roads and a total of 27 intersections. Buildings to be built over a fifteen.5 square km vicinity include three,508 housing plots, sixteen schools, 32 mosques, 1 health facility and several authorities and commercial plots.