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About Qatar :The Qatar is bordered by Saudi Arabia is to the west and the U.A.E to the south. It occupies a little peninsula that extends into the Persian Gulf from the eastern-side of the Arabian Peninsula. The country has dry land with very few plants. In the 1st century A.D. Pliny the Elder, a Roman writer, used the word ?Catharrei? to refer to the people who lived in this region.