Facts and figures:

From the CIA World Factbook (2001).

	Egypt	Iran	Iraq	Jordan	Saudi Arabia	Syria	Turkey	Oman	Qatar
GDP - per capita	$3,600	$6,300	$2,500	$3,500	$10,500	$3,100	$6,800	$7,700	$20,300
Government type	republic	theocratic republic	republic	constitutional monarchy	monarchy	republic under military regime since March 1963	republican parliamentary democracy	monarchy	traditional monarchy
Suffrage	18 years of age; universal and compulsory	15 years of age; universal	18 years of age; universal	20 years of age; universal	none	18 years of age; universal	18 years of age; universal	in Oman's most recent elections in 2000, limited to approximately 175,000 Omanis chosen by the government to vote in elections for the Majlis ash-Shura	suffrage is limited to municipal elections

The CIA notes this about Qatar: closest approximation of the native pronunciation falls between cutter and gutter, but not like guitar

posted by Quiddity at 10/08/2002 02:42:00 PM