!!!Bahrain: Geography
||Location|Middle East, archipelago in the Persian Gulf, east of Saudi Arabia
||Geographic Coordinates|26 00 N, 50 33 E[{GoogleMap location='26.0,50.55' zoom='4'}]
||Area |''total: ''760 sq km\\''land: ''760 sq km\\''water: ''0 sq km__\\''We are unable to verify those figures from Factbook, since the 6 main sources we used for checking give different figures as follows:\\[Factbook|https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook]: 760\\ [DBpedia|http://dbpedia.org]: 765\\ [Geoname|http://www.geonames.org]: 665\\ [Infoplease|http://www.infoplease.com]: 665\\ [Britannica|http://www.britannica.com]: 767\\ [Wolfram|http://www.wolframalpha.com]: 760''__\\__Attempted Explanation__: Please help us to try to explain the discrepancies by sending us helpful information to [office@global-geography.org|mailto:office@global-geography.org]
||Land boundaries|0 km
||Coastline|161 km
||Elevation Extremes|''lowest point: ''Persian Gulf 0 m\\''highest point: ''Jabal ad Dukhan 122 m
||Highest Mountains|
||Terrain|mostly low desert plain rising gently to low central escarpment
||Natural Hazards|periodic droughts; dust storms
||Natural Resource|oil, associated and nonassociated natural gas, fish, pearls
||Land Use|''arable land: ''1.79%\\''permanent crops: ''3.95%\\''other: ''94.26% (2011)
||Climate|arid; mild, pleasant winters; very hot, humid summers
||Irrigated Land|40.15 sq km (2003)
||Renewable Water Resources|0.12 cu km (2011)
||Environment_CurrentIssues|desertification resulting from the degradation of limited arable land, periods of drought, and dust storms; coastal degradation (damage to coastlines, coral reefs, and sea vegetation) resulting from oil spills and other discharges from large tankers, oil refineries, and distribution stations; lack of freshwater resources (groundwater and seawater are the only sources for all water needs)
||Environment - international agreements|''party to: ''Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection, Wetlands\\''signed, but not ratified: ''none of the selected agreements
||Large Cities|__Due to difference in city rankings taken from two data sources we are listing here both lists :__\\According to [Wolfram|http://www.wolframalpha.com]: Manama; al-Muharraq; ar-Rifaa; Madinat Hamad; Ali\\According to [Geonames|http://www.geonames.org]: Manama; Al Muharraq; Ar Rifa; Dar Kulayb; Madinat Hamad\\\\\__Attempted Explanation:__ Please help us to try to explain the discrepancies by sending us helpful information to [office@global-geography.org|mailto:office@global-geography.org] \\[Important Cities|Geography/Asia/Bahrain/Geography/Important_Cities]
||Geography-note|close to primary Middle Eastern petroleum sources; strategic location in Persian Gulf, through which much of the Western world's petroleum must transit to reach open ocean