Mesaieed

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Mesaieed مسيعيد

Capital • Coordinates	Umm Sa'id • 24.98° N 51.55° E
Population • Density	9,870 (2004) • 55/km²
Area • Districts	176 km² • N/A
ISO 3166-2 code	QA

Mesaieed (Arabic: مسيعيد‎, also transliterated as Musay'id and Umm Sa'id) is a municipality of Qatar. Its capital is also called Mesaieed. It is an industrial city and is managed by Mesaieed Industrial City, a subsidiary of Qatar Petroleum. The city houses the main plants and the family accommodations of the following companies: Qatar Petroleum (QP)
QP Refinery
Qatar Fertiliser Company (QAFCO)
Qatar Petrochemical Company (QAPCO)
Qatar Steel Company (QASCO)
Qatar Fuel Additives Company (QAFAC)
Qatar Vinyl Company (QVC)
Qatar Chemicals Company (Q-Chem)
Qatar Aluminium (Qatalum)

1 Location
2 Sports and Tourism
3 Shopping and Services
4 External links

[edit] Location

To the east and south, Mesaieed borders the Persian Gulf. On land, to the north and west, Mesaieed borders Al Wakrah Municipality. It is a part of the area marked in red in the attached map.

[edit] Sports and Tourism

There is a beach and a resort south of Mesaieed. It has windy sand dunes but it is fun climbing there. Qataris and expatriates come here on weekends with their 4WDs. The sand dunes have become an icon of Qatar.

The desert played host to the Endurance competition in the 2006 Asian Games.

There are also some recreation centres in Mesaieed to cater for the company workers.

AL BANUSH CLUB

It is owned by QAFCO, and is mainly used by the senior staff og QAPCO. It is the largest club in the city. It has a main hall, a football ground, tennis and basketball courts,a swimming pool and restaurants. The annual QAFCO flower and vegetable show is held here. A cricket field is located near the club.

DANA CLUB

It is owned by QAPCO and the Qatar Police. It is the second largest club in the city. It has a main hall, a football ground, basketball, tennis, badminton and table tennis facilities, a swimming pool and a restaurant.

QP Golf Club

It is owned by QP. It has a golf course and a swimming pool.

[edit] Shopping and Services

Mesaieed city has a shopping centre which houses a department store, an electronics store, optical stores, a Q-Tel centre, a branch of the Qatar Islamic Bank (QIB), two ATMs, some offices and a ICT shop which also houses an internet café. The shopping centre was completed in 2004 and officially opened by the Minister of Energy and Chairman of Qatar Petroleum, Abdullah Bin Hamad Al Attiyah in March 2006.

Besides QIB, there are four other banks: Doha Bank, Qatar National Bank (QNB), Commercial Bank Qatar (CBQ) and The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC). HSBC is located inside a state-of-the-art post office (the second largest in Qatar).

Adjacent to the shopping centre is a large souq or market. There are all sorts of shops in it like textile shops, supermarkets, groceries, hair-cutting saloons, laundry shops, restaurants, cafés and ICT shops.