Zone 72 is a
zone
Zone or The Zone may refer to:
Places Climate and altitude zones
* Death zone (originally the lethal zone), altitudes above a certain point where the amount of oxygen is insufficient to sustain human life for an extended time span
* Frigid zone, ...
in the
municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...
of
Al-Shahaniya
Al Shahaniya ( ar, الشحانية, Ash Shīḩānīyah) is a municipality (3299 km2) in Qatar, with its municipal seat has a city of the same name (39 km2). Formerly in the municipality of Al Rayyan, but now an independent municipali ...
in the state of
Qatar
Qatar (, ; ar, قطر, Qaṭar ; local vernacular pronunciation: ), officially the State of Qatar,) is a country in Western Asia. It occupies the Qatar Peninsula on the northeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula in the Middle East; it sh ...
. The main district recorded in the 2015 population census was
Al Utouriya
Al Utouriya ( ar, العطورية, Al Athārīyah) is a village in Qatar, located in the municipality of Al-Shahaniya. The village is located about north of Al-Shahaniya City and the same distance south of Al Jemailiya. It is connected to both ...
.
Other districts which fall within its administrative boundaries are
Lehsain,
Qaryat Al Refaiq,
Ras Abrouq
Ras Abrouq ( ar, رأس أبروق; also known as Bir Zekreet) is the northernmost extension of the Zekreet Peninsula, a stretch of land to the north of Dukhan in Qatar. It has a beach of the same name ,
Umm Al Daah Khawzan,
Umm Al Qahab Al Jadeeda,
Umm Al Qahab Al Qadeema,
Umm Leghab West Umm () means ''mother'' in Arabic. It is a common Arabic feminine given name and generic prefix for Semitic place names. It may refer to:
Places Bahrain
*Ain Umm Sujoor, an archaeological site
*Umm an Nasan, an island
*Umm as Sabaan, an islet
Egy ...
,
Wadi Laswaq, and
Zekreet
Zekreet ( ar, زكريت) is a village in north-western Qatar near Dukhan and about 80 km north-west west of Doha. Originally a sparsely populated area, Zekreet was built up in the 1940s after oil operations commenced in Qatar. This include ...
.
Demographics
As of the 2010 census, the zone comprised 363 housing units and 123 establishments. There were 1,060 people living in the zone, of which 72% were male and 28% were female. Out of the 1,060 inhabitants, 80% were 20 years of age or older and 20% were under the age of 20.
Employed persons made up 72% of the total population. Females accounted for 19% of the working population, while males accounted for 81% of the working population. Most of the working population is employed within the agricultural industry (356), and public administration and defense comes in second with 110 employed individuals.
Land use
The Ministry of Municipality and Environment (MME) breaks down land use in the zone as follows.
References
Zones of Qatar
Al-Shahaniya
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