Umm Bab is a settlement in Qatar, located in the municipality of Al-Shahaniya. It used to be part of the Al Rayyan municipality and prior to that part of Al Jemailiya municipality before the latter was incorporated into Al Rayyan. Umm Bab is well known locally for Al Khraij Beach, which is also known as 'Palm Tree Beach' owing to a small cluster of palm trees situated off the shoreline.
Entrance to Umm Bab on Umm Bab Road
Beach sands in the vicinity of Al Hamlah Water Well near Umm Bab.
View of cement industries off Umm Bab Road.
Desert Thumbs (Cynomorium coccineum, local name tartouth) on a beach near Umm Bab.
Al Shahaniya is a municipality (3299 km2) in Qatar, with its municipal seat being a city of the same name (39 km2). Formerly in the municipality of Al Rayyan, but now an independent municipality, the municipal seat was delimited in 1988 by Law No. 22. In 2014, the cabinet ratified a draft amending provisions to the 1988 law that formalized Al Shahaniya as Qatar's eighth municipality.
Beach sands in the vicinity of Al Hamlah Water Well near Umm Bab
Rainbow over Rawdat Jarrah, a depression north of Dukhan.
Village of Al Khurayb
Pipeline system for Dukhan's oil wells
