Al Seej (; also spelled Al Seeq) is a district in

Qatar Qatar, officially the State of Qatar, is a country in West Asia. It occupies the Geography of Qatar, Qatar Peninsula on the northeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula in the Middle East; it shares Qatar–Saudi Arabia border, its sole land b ...

, located in the

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Al Rayyan Al Rayyan (; also spelled ''Ar Rayyan'') is the third-largest municipalities of Qatar, municipality in Qatar. Its primary settlement is the Al Rayyan (city), city of the same name, which occupies the entire eastern section and is a part of the Do ...

. In the 2015 census, it was listed as a district of Zone 51 which has a population of 56,027 and also includes

Izghawa Izghawa () is a district on the border between the municipalities of Umm Salal and Al Rayyan in Qatar. Consequently, its administration is split, with its western portion (Izghawa 71) administered by Umm Salal and the east (Izghawa 51) by Al Ray ...

Gharrafat Al Rayyan Gharrafat Al Rayyan () is a district of Al Rayyan City in Qatar, located in the municipality of Al Rayyan. Etymology "Gharrafat" is derived from the Arabic word meaning "to scoop up". This name was earned due to the area's low elevation, allowin ...

Al Gharrafa Al Gharrafa () is a Qatari district of Al Rayyan City, which is located in the municipality of Al Rayyan. In close proximity to Education City and constituting a part of the Doha Metropolitan Area, the Doha Expressway and Al Shamal Highway run a ...

Rawdat Egdaim Rawdat Egdaim (; also spelled Rawdat Ekdaim) is a district in Qatar, located in the municipality of Al Rayyan. In the 2015 census it was listed as a district of Zone 51, with a population of 56,027. It includes Izghawa, Gharrafat Al Rayyan, Al Gh ...

Bani Hajer Bani Hajer (), also known as al-Hawajir, are an influential tribe in the Arabian Peninsula. The tribe is also called Bani Hajer (Family surnames: Al-Hajri) in Egypt eastern Saudi Arabia and other Arab states of the Persian Gulf (Qatar, UAE, Bahrain ...

and

Al Themaid Al Themaid (; also spelled Al Thumaid) is a district in Qatar, located in the municipality of Al Rayyan. In the 2015 census, it was listed as a district of zone no. 51 with a population of 56,027. It also includes Izghawa, Gharrafat Al Rayyan, Al ...

. It borders Bani Hajer to the east, Al Wajbah to the south, Rawdat Al Jahanniya to the west, and Rawdat Egdaim to the north.

Etymology

The district's name has its origins in the

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word "saq", which refers to a tree trunk. As the area is situated in a rawda, it accommodated various flora, among which ''

Ziziphus nummularia ''Ziziphus nummularia'', commonly known as wild jujube or jharberi in Hindi, is a species of ''Ziziphus'' native to the Thar Desert of western India and southeastern Pakistan, south Iran, Afghanistan, Lebanon and Zimbabwe. ''Ziziphus nummulari ...

'', locally known as "sidr", was most valued because of the use of its trunks as building material.

References

Populated places in Al Rayyan {{Qatar-geo-stub