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Umm Lekhba

Umm Lekhba is a Qatari district located in the municipality of Doha.

Umm Lekhba
Umm Lekhba · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Umm Lekhba is a Qatari district located in the municipality of Doha. It was previously known as Al Duhail South or, alternatively, as South Duhail.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Umm Lekhba

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.

  1. 01
    Thani bin Jassim Stadium

    The Thani bin Jassim Stadium, also known as the Al-Gharafa Stadium, is a multi-purpose stadium in the Al Gharrafa district of Al Rayyan, Qatar. It is currently used mostly for football matches.

    3.1 km · multi-purpose stadium in the Al Gharrafa district of Al Rayyan, Qatar · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Lekhwiya Sports Stadium

    The Abdullah bin Khalifa Stadium, formerly known as Duhail Stadium, is a football stadium in Doha, Qatar.

    3.6 km · association football stadium in Doha, Qatar · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Duhail Handball Sports Hall

    Duhail Handball Sports Hall is an indoor sports arena based in the suburb of Duhail in Doha, Qatar. It was built to host matches of the 2015 World Men's Handball Championship.

    3.4 km · sports arena in Qatar · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Northwestern 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.

    3.5 km · university campus in Education City, Doha, Qatar · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Al-Markhiya Stadium

    Al-Markhiya Stadium is a football stadium in the Al Markhiya district of Doha, Qatar. The football team Al-Markhiya SC play there.

    2.5 km · Football stadium in Doha, Qatar · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Education 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.

    3.5 km · mosque in Qatar · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    University of Doha for Science and Technology

    The University of Doha for Science and Technology is a public institution of higher education in Qatar, established by Amiri Decision No. 13 of 2022.

    2.5 km · national university that specializes in academic applied, technical, and professional education in the State of Qatar · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Qatar 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.

    3.8 km · digital library with topics related to Qatar · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Landmark 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.

    800 m · Shopping Mall in Qatar · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Al Hazm Mall

    AlHazm Mall is a luxury shopping mall located in the Al Markhiya district of Doha, Qatar. It opened in 2017 and was constructed at an estimated cost of $820 million.

    2.8 km · shopping mall in Doha, Qatar · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Umm Lekhba

Airports
Doha (DIA), 13 km · Hamad (DOH), 16 km · Bahrain (BAH), 133 km
Stations
Qatar National Library, 3.7 km · Al Shaqab, 3.9 km
  • Manama → Umm Lekhba
    133 km · quickest by road, 5h 35m · $30–41
  • Hofuf → Umm Lekhba
    199 km · quickest by road, 4h 29m · SAR85–110
  • Ad Dammam → Umm Lekhba
    183 km · quickest by road, 5h · SAR90–120
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Umm Lekhba

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 Umm Lekhba. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

From Wikivoyage: Doha, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Wadi RumJO

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    1,650 km
  2. 02
    Petra and Wadi MusaJO

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,666 km
  3. 03
    Yeghegnadzor and the Vayots Dzor valleyAM

    9 ways of moving, 32 sources

    1,703 km
  4. 04
    DahabEG

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    1,716 km
  5. 05
    Sheki (Şəki)AZ

    10 ways of moving, 46 sources

    1,808 km

If you know how people move in Umm Lekhba – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Umm Lekhba

Umm Lekhba is 9 km from Doha, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.