Reef Island ( ar, جزيرة الريف) is an artificial island in the archipelago of
Bahrain
Bahrain ( ; ; ar, البحرين, al-Bahrayn, locally ), officially the Kingdom of Bahrain, ' is an island country in Western Asia. It is situated on the Persian Gulf, and comprises a small archipelago made up of 50 natural islands and an ...
. It has a distance of north of downtown
Manama
Manama ( ar, المنامة ', Bahrani Arabic, Bahrani pronunciation: ) is the capital and largest city of Bahrain, with an approximate population of 200,000 people as of 2020. Long an important trading center in the Persian Gulf, Manama is h ...
, on
Bahrain Island.
History
In 2000, a plan was proposed by a group called Lulu Island Development to develop a housing project at Bahrain.
in August 2004 Construction began on the island. The investors were Lulu Tourism Company (a subsidiary of
Mouawad Group), and the Government of Bahrain, 50% each.
Cost of the Project: $1.5 billion
Description
Designed by
Spowers and Pentago, the housing project comprises a five star hotel resort, waterfront apartments, yacht club, boutique retail, villas, a spa hotel, lagoon apartments, a thirty floors apartment tower, marine retail, theater/exhibition halls and a marina.
All buildings are developed in a landscaped garden setting unique to Bahrain. Access for yachts up to 110 meters in length is provided and a number of beaches enhance the relaxed lifestyle inherent in Reef Island.
Demography
There are several housing projects on the island, the major one is Le-Reef.
Another big ones are Marina reef
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Administration
The island belongs to Capital Governorate.
Transportation
There is a causeway
A causeway is a track, road or railway on the upper point of an embankment across "a low, or wet place, or piece of water". It can be constructed of earth, masonry, wood, or concrete. One of the earliest known wooden causeways is the Sweet Tra ...
connecting Reef Island with Manama
Manama ( ar, المنامة ', Bahrani Arabic, Bahrani pronunciation: ) is the capital and largest city of Bahrain, with an approximate population of 200,000 people as of 2020. Long an important trading center in the Persian Gulf, Manama is h ...
on Bahrain Island.
Image gallery
File:Un-bahrain.png, Map 1
File:Capital Governorate in Bahrain 2014.svg, District Map
File:MOWPAN0411.jpg, Image of Reef Island
See also
* List of islands of Bahrain
This is a list of islands of the ''Kingdom of Bahrain'', which includes most of the archipelago known as the . The Kingdom consists of 33 natural islands and a number of man-made ones.
Islands
In addition to the Bahrain Islands, the Kingdom con ...
References
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Populated places in the Capital Governorate, Bahrain
Islands of Bahrain
Artificial islands of Bahrain