Talk:Municipalities of Qatar

baladiyat (sing: baladiyah; municipalities) ? instead of muhafazah? Tobias Conradi (Talk) 15:12, 20 January 2006 (UTC)


 * According to the CIA and Statoids, you're correct - according to them, the term is baladiyah and it translates as municipality. (And there's a 10th muni, but it's new) --Golbez 15:23, 20 January 2006 (UTC)


 * so the arab and the english word seem wrong here. i would like to check a source from qatar itself if possible. statoids maybe only uses cia. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 08:08, 22 January 2006 (UTC)


 * not easy http://www.google.com/search?q=municipality+site%3A.qa

Having the (sloppy) argument that http://www.google.com/search?q=%D8%A8%D9%84%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%AA+site%3A.qa returns 36200 results, and http://www.google.com/search?q=%D9%85%D8%AD%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%B8%D8%A7%D8%AA+site%3A.qa just 64, I'm changing the page to use "baladiyat" --tyomitch 17:02, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

They are officially called municipalities!
See http://mmaa.mmaa.gov.qa/eng/ for an example. --tyomitch 10:47, 28 April 2006 (UTC)


 * let's move Tobias Conradi (Talk) 12:33, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

Map
According to Qatar sources boundaries of municipalities are different (at least in southern 4 municipalities). May be there is something changed in last 5 years? It looks that there in Qatar are now only 7 municipalities. Latest statistical surveys and online map shows 7 municipalities. --Kikos (talk) 07:11, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

Qatar's municipalities appear to have changed
See the current layout on the Qatari government website http://www.mme.gov.qa/cui/view.dox?id=585&contentID=577&siteID=2 --Hza a 9 (talk) 19:01, 11 June 2017 (UTC)