List of islands of Bahrain explained

This is a list of islands of the Kingdom of Bahrain, which includes most of the archipelago known as the . The Kingdom consists of 33 natural islands and a number of man-made ones.

Islands

In addition to the Bahrain Islands, the Kingdom consists of:

• The Amwaj Islands, an artificial island chain which is already settled and in the final phase of construction.
• The Hawar Islands, split between Bahrain and Qatar, most of which were granted to Bahrain by an international court in 2001.
• The Jidda Islands consist of three deserted islands. This island is situated in the west side of Bahrain.
• The Nurana Islands consist of two islets. This island is situated in the east north side of Bahrain.
• The Reef Islands consist of 16 islands.

Island	Capital	Other Cities	Area (km^2)	Proportion of total area (2014)	Population	Proportion of total population (2014)	Comments
		Jidhafs, Sanabis, Al Budaiya, Tubli, Isa Town, A'ali, Madinat Hamad, Riffa, Malkiya	590.7	align=center	76%^[1]	940,000	align=center	76%	Largest island of the archipelago.
	Folk island resort	Falkland beach	0.04	align=center	0%	0	align=center	0%
		Najmah, Tala, Wardeh, Hamama, Dalphene, Farasha	4.31	align=center	0.5%	10,000	align=center	1%	Artificial island.
			12.0	align=center	1.5%	0	align=center	0%	Artificial island
		Atol 2, Atol 3, Atol 4, Atol 5, Atol 6, Petal 1, Petal 2, Petal 3, Petal 4, Petal 5, Durrat Al Bahrain resort	20.0	align=center	2.5%	870	align=center	0%	Artificial group of islands
		Halat Seltah	0.27	align=center	0%	1,000	align=center	0%	Formerly two separate islands.
			53.5	align=center	7%	4,000	align=center	0.3%
	Jidda Island Palace		0.48	align=center	0%	0	align=center	0%
	Border Station		0.88	align=center	0%	10	align=center	0%
		Al Dair, Busaiteen, Samaheej, Galali, Al Hidd, Arad	49.3	align=center	6%	200,000	align=center	16%
	Nabih Saleh	Juzayyirah	1.3	align=center	0%	3,000	align=center	0%	Formerly the separate islands of Nabih and Saleh
	Northern City		7.0	align=center	1%	100	align=center	0%
	South Nurana	North Nurana	2.32	align=center	0%	0	align=center	0%
	Al Hidd water park		0.35	align=center	0%	0	align=center	0%
			0.13	align=center	0%	0	align=center	0%
		Bahrain Bay, Arcapita beach	2.07	align=center	0%	3,000	align=center	0%	(also known as Lulu Island)
	Al Kharijiya		14.6	align=center	2%	81,000	align=center	7%
	South Sitra Palace		0.1	align=center	0%	0	align=center	0%
			20.0	align=center	3%	10	align=center	0%
			0.23	align=center	0%	3	align=center	0%
			0.0	align=center	0%	0	align=center	0%	Proposed artificial island
Other Islands		Mashtan islands, Yusuf	0.42	align=center	0%	0	align=center	0%
			780.0	align=center	100%	1.240,000	align=center	100%

Former islands

Islands that once existed but which now, because of land reclamation, are no longer separated from larger land masses:

• Arad Island, including Arad Fort, now joined to Muharraq.
• Halat Bu Maher, now joined to Muharraq
• Jazirat al Azl, now joined to Muharraq.^{[2] [3]}
• Khasifeh or Khasifa
• Halat Seltah

See also

• Bahrain Island
• Geography of Bahrain

References

• cs2 . Holdich . Thomas Hungerford . Thomas Hungerford Holdich . Bahrein Islands . . 3 . 212.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Bahrain's Initial Communications to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change . Kingdom of Bahrain . March 2005.
2. http://mapcarta.com/12926272 Mapcarta
3. Book: Bahrain . . 2002 . 19. 9781438104843 . Gillespie . Carol Ann . Infobase .