Doha, Qatar captured by the Operational Land Imager-2 (OLI-2) on Landsat 9 on November 13, 2022. (Click picture for wider, high-resolution view.)
Several new stadiums have been inbuilt and round Doha for the World Cup.
Thirty-two groups and greater than 1 million soccer (soccer) followers headed to Qatar in November 2022 for the World Cup. The vacation spot is Doha, Qatar’s fast-growing capital metropolis, positioned on the coast of the Persian Gulf within the east of the nation.
This natural-color picture of Doha, Qatar was captured on November 13, 2022, by the Operational Land Imager-2 (OLI-2) on Landsat 9. With a inhabitants of two.three million individuals, town sits on the jap shore of a small peninsula on the Persian Gulf. Development radiates outward from Doha’s historic metropolis middle alongside a collection of ring roads. The improvement consists of an in depth quantity of synthetic land constructed to accommodate airport and port amenities, in addition to totally human-made islands which have develop into hubs of residential and industrial exercise, such because the pearl-shaped Pearl-Qatar.
Stadiums are among the many most seen options constructed since 2010, when Qatar was named the host metropolis of the 2022 FIFA World Cup. There are eight official stadiums, seven of which have been constructed since 2010. All of them are positioned inside a 33-mile (54-kilometer) radius of Doha, making the 22nd World Cup essentially the most geographically compact occasion for the reason that first FIFA-organized event in 1930. The venues for previous World Cups have been unfold between a number of cities that have been typically a whole bunch to hundreds of kilometers aside.
Doha, Qatar captured by the Operational Land Imager-2 (OLI-2) on Landsat 9 on November 13, 2022.
The venues characteristic an array of distinctive designs. Lusail Stadium is the most important and can maintain 80,000 spectators. It contains a gold exterior designed to seem like conventional hand-crafted bowls from the Arab and Islamic world.
Located in part of town identified for pearl diving and fishing, the outside of Al Janoub Stadium, seems like the underside of a ship. Situated close to the airport, the round Al Thumama Stadium, was constructed to resemble a gahfiya—the normal woven cap worn by males and boys throughout the Middle East.
When the event is over, solely Khalifa International Stadium will likely be used as the house of a soccer (soccer) workforce. The relaxation will likely be repurposed as motels, neighborhood areas, or smaller sporting amenities. One venue—Stadium 974—is constituted of 974 transportable delivery containers and will likely be utterly disassembled when the World Cup is over.
NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey.
