Ash Shamal ??????
Capital  • Coordinates	Ar Ru'ays (Madinat ash Shamal)  • 26°08'N 51°13'E? / ?26.14, 51.22
Population  • Density	5,400 (2004)  • 6/km²
Area  • Districts	902 km²   • N/A
ISO 3166-2 code	QA

ash-Shamal (Arabic: ???????) is a municipality of Qatar. Its capital is called Madinat ash-Shamal. The name means "City of the north".

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. It borders the following municipalities:

• Al Khawr - southeast
• Al Ghuwariyah - south

Zubara Fort

The municipality is divided into three zones.

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

• Madinat ash-Shamal (Ar-Ruways), 3 267
• Fuwayri? (Al-Jassasiyah), 1 306
• az-Zubarah, 826

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