Bahrain

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Codes and identifiers

ISO alpha-2
BH
ISO alpha-3
BHR
ISO numeric
048
FIPS 10-4
BA
GeoNames ID
290291

Key facts

Capital
Manama
Area
665 km²
Population
1,569,439
Currency
Dinar (BHD)
Calling code
+973
Top-level domain
.bh
Official languages
ar-BH,en,fa,ur

Continent

Name
Asia
Code
AS
In this dataset
51 countries

Asia in the country atlas

Location

Latitude
26.03333
Longitude
50.55
Min latitude
25.579890923319237
Min longitude
50.38052953694196
Max latitude
26.287438796838625
Max longitude
50.81987514169949

Boundary

Bahrain

The API call behind this page

Request

curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
  "https://geosearch.dev/v1/countries/BH?fields=iso_code,iso3_code,name,capital,population,area_sq_km,currency_code,continent_code"

Response

{
  "data": {
    "area_sq_km": 665,
    "capital": "Manama",
    "continent_code": "AS",
    "currency_code": "BHD",
    "iso3_code": "BHR",
    "iso_code": "BH",
    "name": "Bahrain",
    "population": 1569439
  }
}

Formatted for reading. The API returns the same JSON on one line.

Other endpoints for this country

  • /v1/countries/BH/regions
  • /v1/cities?country=BH
  • /v1/postal-codes?country=BH
  • /v1/timezones?country=BH
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Name in other languages

Arabic
البحرين
Chinese
巴林
English
Bahrain
French
Bahreïn
German
Bahrain
Hindi
बाहरेन
Italian
Bahrain
Japanese
バーレーン
Korean
바레인
Portuguese
Bahrain
Russian
Бахрейн
Spanish
Bahréin
Total language variants
147

The API returns any of them with ?lang=.

Time zones

IANA ID UTC offset DST offset
Asia/Bahrain UTC+03:00 UTC+03:00

Postal code format

Format
####|###
Pattern
^(\d{3}\d?)$

First-level administrative regions

  • Capital Governorate
  • Northern Governorate
  • Southern Governorate
  • Muharraq Governorate

4 of 4 shown, largest first

Largest cities

City Population
Al Muharraq 176,583
Manama 147,074
Madīnat Ḩamad 133,550
Ar Rifā‘ 115,495
Sitrah 72,601
Jidd Ḩafş 66,588
Dār Kulayb 65,466
Madīnat ‘Īsá 38,090
Al Ḩadd 12,797
Az Zallāq 9,095

Coverage in this dataset

Cities
124
First-level regions
4
Postal codes
0
Name languages
147
Boundary polygon
Yes

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