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Flag
Description
red, the traditional color for flags of Persian Gulf states,
with a white serrated band (five white points) on the hoist
side; the five points represent the five pillars of Islam
note: until 2002, the flag had eight white points, but this
was reduced to five to avoid confusion with the Qatari flag |
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country is different : You
must know it |
Bahrain
is 33 islands.
Connected to mainland of Saudi
Arabia by a 26 km long bridge
(King Fahd Causeway).
A sizeable portion of the
Bahrain land is reclaimed
land that is made by filling
the shallow coastlines or
joining sand bars by sand
or landfill.
There is a famous Mesquite
tree called “Tree of
Life” which is 400 years
old and stands alone in the
desert of Bahrain.
Bahrain has been one of the
fast developing nations
Identified by the World Bank
as a high income economy.
Bahrain exports petroleum
and petroleum products, textiles
and aluminum. It imports chemical,
machinery and crude oil. The
natural resources mainly consist
of natural gas, oil and fish
stocks. |
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