How One Gas Field Made Qatar One of the Richest Countries on Earth

Edge of the Atlas

Edge of the Atlas

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Qatar has fewer citizens than a mid-sized American town — nine out of ten people living there are foreign workers. Yet this tiny peninsula owns a stake in Harrods, controls one of Europe's biggest football clubs, survived a four-year blockade by its own neighbors, and built an entire city from empty desert to host a World Cup.

This is how one 1971 gas discovery turned a poor pearl-diving outpost into one of the wealthiest, most influential small states on Earth.

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