Ash Shamal الشمال
Capital  • Coordinates	Ar Ru'ays (Madinat ash Shamal)  • 26.14° N 51.22° E
Population  • Density	5,400 (2004)  • 6/km²
Area  • Districts	902 km²   • N/A
ISO 3166-2 code	QA

ash-Shamal (Arabic: الشمال‎) is a municipality of Qatar. Arabic (ar الْعَرَبيّة (informally ar عَرَبيْ) in terms of the number of speakers is the largest living member of the Semitic language |||} Qatar is divided into 10 municipalities ( Baladiyah) Ad Dawhah الدوحة Al Ghuwariyah الغويرية Qatar ( قطر; ˈqɑtˁɑr local pronunciation giṭar officially the State of Qatar (Arabic دولة قطر transliterated Its capital is called Madinat ash-Shamal. The name means "City of the north". This is about the direction for other uses see North (disambiguation.

Madinat ash Shamal includes Ras Rakan, the farthest north point of the Qatari peninsula, and as such is surrounded by the Persian Gulf in all directions except for the south. A peninsula is a piece of land that is nearly surrounded by Water but connected to Mainland via an Isthmus. The Persian Gulf, in the Southwest Asian region is an extension of the It borders the following municipalities:

• Al Khawr - southeast
• Al Ghuwariyah - south

Zubara Fort

The municipality is divided into three zones. Al Ghuwariyah (الغويرية is a municipality of Qatar. Al Ghuwariyah's western edge is the shores of the Persian Gulf. Zubarah (also Al Zubarah or Az Zubarah) is a town in the northwest of the Qatar peninsula about 105 km from the Qatari capital of Doha.

The only towns are (with population figures, as of census 2004-03-01)[1]:

• Madīnat ash-Shamāl (Ar-Ruways), 3 267
• Fuwayriṭ (Al-Jassasiyah), 1 306
• az-Zubārah, 826