Umm Ebairiya | |
Native Name: | أم عبيرية |
Native Name Lang: | ar |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Pushpin Map: | Qatar |
Coordinates: | 25.4833°N 51.3833°W |
Elevation Footnotes: | [1] |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Qatar |
Subdivision Type1: | Municipality |
Subdivision Name1: | Umm Salal |
Subdivision Type2: | Zone |
Subdivision Name2: | Zone 71 |
Subdivision Type3: | District no. |
Subdivision Name3: | 131 |
Area Footnotes: | [2] |
Area Total Km2: | 7.1 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Umm Ebairiya (ar|أم عبيرية|Umm ‘Ābirīyah) is a Qatari village in the municipality of Umm Salal.[3] [4]
In the 2015 census, it was listed as a district of Zone 71, which has a population of 90,835 and also includes all of Umm Salal's other administrative districts.[3]
It borders Umm Al Amad to the east, Umm Salal Ali to the southeast and Saina Al-Humaidi to the northeast.[4]
"Umm" means mother in Arabic and is commonly used as a prefix for geographical features.[4] The second component, "ebairiya", comes from "obri", the local name of a type of Sidr tree that grows abundantly in the region.[5]
Alternative transliterations of the name include Umm ‘Ubayrīyah,[6] Umm Obairiya, Umm A'birieh and Umm Abiriyah.[7]