Abu Thaylah
أَبُو ثَيْلَة
District
Abu Thaylah is located in Qatar
Abu Thaylah
Abu Thaylah
Location in Qatar
Coordinates: 25°31′55″N 51°18′16″E / 25.53194°N 51.30444°E / 25.53194; 51.30444
Country Qatar
MunicipalityUmm Salal
ZoneZone 71
District no.139
Area
[1]
 • Total7.7 sq mi (20.0 km2)

Abu Thaylah (Arabic: أَبُو ثَيْلَة) is a district in Qatar, located in the municipality of Umm Salal.

Etymology

"Abu" means father in English, and in this context is used as a prefix to signify a geographic feature. The second part, "thayla", is derived from a plant known locally as "al thail" which is found in great abundance around the area.[2]

Infrastructure

In the late 1960s the government established an electrical substation here.[3]

A large-scale government-sanctioned plant nursery was opened in Abu Thaylah in 2003. Plants grown in the nursery are used for research and also distributed to government ministries. The nursery covers an area of 2,500 sq meters.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "District Area Map". Ministry of Development Planning and Statistics. Retrieved 12 March 2019.
  2. ↑ "District map". The Centre for Geographic Information Systems of Qatar. Archived from the original on 24 November 2020. Retrieved 24 July 2018.
  3. ↑ Qatar. Doha: Government of Qatar. 1968. p. 54.
  4. ↑ "تدشين أسبوع الشجرة بروضة بخيلة اليوم" (in Arabic). Al Raya. 2 March 2008. Retrieved 9 August 2017.


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