The map does not show Madinat Hamad, which was split off from Ar Rifa' wa al Mintaqah al Janubiyah in 1991. Al Hadd was a small municipality of Bahrain in the northeastern part of the country. ... Manama (Arabic: المنامة Al-Manāmah) is the capital city of Bahrain and is situated on the Persian Gulf, in the northeast of Bahrain Island. ... Al Mintaqah al Gharbiyah (Western region) was a municipality of Bahrain in the western part of the country. ... Al Mintaqah al Wusta (Central region) was a municipality of Bahrain in the northern part of the country. ... Al Mintaqah al Shamaliyah (Northern region) was a municipality of Bahrain in the northern part of the country. ... Categories: Geography stubs | Bahrain ... Ar Rifa wa al Mintaqah al Janubiyah (Rifa and Southern Region) was a municipality of Bahrain in the southern part of the country. ... Categories: Middle East geography stubs | Bahrain ... Madinat Hamad was a municipality of Bahrain in the central part of the country. ... Madinat Isa (Isa City) is a city in Bahrain in the north central part of the country. ... Juzur Hawar was a municipality of Bahrain, consisting of the Hawar Islands southeast of the main island of Bahrain, much closer to Qatar than to Bahrain. ... Categories: Middle East geography stubs ... 1991 (MCMXCI) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Bahrain is a constitutional monarchy headed by the King, Shaikh Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa; the head of government is the Prime Minister, Shaykh Khalīfa bin Salman al Khalifa, who presides over a cabinet of fifteen members.
Bahrain also has the freest economy in the Middle East according to the 2006 Index of Economic Freedom published by the Heritage Foundation/Wall Street Journal, and is twenty-fifth freest overall in the world.
Bahrain is a generally flat and arid archipelago, comprising of a low desert plain rising gently to a low central escarpment, in the Persian Gulf, east of Saudi Arabia.
The Kingdom of Bahrain, or Bahrain (formally spelled Bahrein), is a borderless island nation in the Persian Gulf (Southwest Asia/Middle East, Asia).
Saudi Arabia is to the west and is connected to Bahrain by the King Fahd Causeway, and Qatar is to the south across the Persian Gulf.
Nowadays Bahrain is a cosmopolitan society with mixed communities: two thirds of Bahrain's population consists of Arabs while the rest are immigrants and guest workers that are largely from Iran, South Asia and Southeast Asia.
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