Al Shagub
Al Shagub is a district of Al Rayyan City in Qatar, located in the municipality of Al Rayyan.
Al Shagub is a district of Al Rayyan City in Qatar, located in the municipality of Al Rayyan. Since it houses the universities in Qatar Foundation's educational project Education City, the district is sometimes referred to as Education City. Qatar Foundation has played a major role in developing the district.
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Worth seeing in and around Al Shagub
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Education City Stadium
Education City Stadium is a football stadium which is located in Al Rayyan, Qatar, and was built as a venue in time for the 2022 FIFA World Cup held in Qatar. The stadium is located within several university campuses at the Qatar Foundation's Education City.
1.8 km · stadium · Wikipedia - 02Mathaf
Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art is a museum in Doha, Qatar with over 9,000 objects. Established in 2010, it is considered a major cultural attraction in the country.
2.2 km · museum of modern and contemporary art at Doha · Wikipedia - 03Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar
Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar is a satellite campus of Carnegie Mellon University in Education City, Doha, Qatar. This campus is a member of the Qatar Foundation and started graduating students in May 2008.
1 km · university in Qatar · Wikipedia - 04Northwestern University in Qatar
Northwestern University in Qatar, also known as Northwestern Qatar, is Northwestern University’s campus in Education City, Doha, Qatar, founded in partnership with the Qatar Foundation in 2008. Northwestern Qatar's campus offers a liberal arts and media education with undergraduate degrees awarded in communication, journalism, and strategic communication.
1.3 km · university campus in Education City, Doha, Qatar · Wikipedia - 05Hamad Bin Khalifa University
Hamad Bin Khalifa University is a public university located within Education City in Doha, the capital city of Qatar. The university, a member of Qatar Foundation, was founded in 2010.
1.2 km · Public university in Qatar · Wikipedia - 06Education City Mosque
The Education City Mosque, also known as the QFIS Mosque, is the national mosque of Education City Al Rayyan in Qatar. The mosque forms part of Qatar Faculty of Islamic Studies, located in the Minaretein building, on the campus of the Hamad Bin Khalifa University.
1.2 km · mosque in Qatar · Wikipedia - 07Qatar Digital Library
Qatar Digital Library is a bilingual online library which was launched as a joint venture by a partnership consisting of Qatar Foundation, Qatar National Library and the British Library in October 2014. QDL comprises one of the largest online collections of historic records on the Persian Gulf countries.
1.2 km · digital library with topics related to Qatar · Wikipedia - 08Georgetown University in Qatar
Georgetown University in Qatar is a campus of Georgetown University in Education City, Doha, Qatar. It is one of Georgetown University's eleven undergraduate and graduate schools, and is supported by a partnership between Qatar Foundation and Georgetown University.
1.1 km · Georgetown University campus in Qatar · Wikipedia - 09Landmark Mall
Landmark Mall, also Landmark Regional Shopping Center, was a shopping mall in Alexandria, Virginia. Located in a triangle formed by Duke Street, I-395, and Van Dorn Street, the mall opened as Landmark Center in 1965, closed in 2017, and was demolished in 2022.
3.9 km · Shopping Mall in Qatar · Wikipedia - 10Oxygen Park
Oxygen Park is a public park in Education City on the outskirts of Qatar’s capital, Doha. Located between the Qatar National Library and Education City Mosque to the North, and Education City Stadium to the South, the park has two "zones" – the Western side for sports, and the Eastern for recreation.
600 m · park in Education city, Qatar · Wikipedia
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Getting to Al Shagub
- Airports
- Doha (DIA), 14 km · Hamad (DOH), 17 km · Bahrain (BAH), 134 km
- Stations
- Qatar National Library, 1.3 km · Al Shaqab, 1.2 km · Al Rayyan/Al Quadeem, 2.1 km · Education City station, 1.9 km
- Manama → Al Shagub142 km · quickest by road, 5h 26m · $29–40
- Hofuf → Al Shagub205 km · quickest by road, 4h 20m · SAR80–110
- Ad Dammam → Al Shagub192 km · quickest by road, 4h 51m · SAR90–120
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No local-transport research exists yet for Al Shagub
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Al Shagub. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundHowever, hitchhiking always has its risks, and it is not an advisable practice for solo women.
- Go nextHead west to see the camel races, and then visit the Sheikh Faisal Bin Qassim Al Thani Museum in Al Shahaniyah.
- Go nextDrive south to visit the Dhow Harbour in Al Wakrah, and then hit the beach and go dune bashing near Mesaieed.
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Al Shagub is 9 km from Doha, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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