Baréin

Más allá de la capital, las principales ciudades son Muharraq, Riffa — cada una un centro de cultura regional, economía e historia. Manama's Bahrain Fort — Qal'at al-Bahrain — is a UNESCO World Heritage Site containing archaeological layers from the Dilmun civilisation of 2300 BCE through to Portuguese occupation in the 16th century, making this small capital city the site of one of the most compressed stratigraphic records of Gulf trading history.

El idioma oficial es árabe, que refleja el patrimonio cultural del país y lo conecta con una amplia comunidad internacional. Internacionalmente, Baréin se contacta mediante el código +973. Bahrain's pearl diving tradition — hamat al-ghaws — defined the archipelago's economy for over 2,000 years until Japanese cultured pearls collapsed the market in the 1930s, and the songs sung by divers during the descent, the fidjeri, are maintained by UNESCO-recognised ensembles as one of the Gulf's most specific oral musical traditions.

El tráfico rodado circula por la derecha, en consonancia con la convención de

La vida económica y cotidiana se rige por la zona horaria de UTC+03:00, alineando el país con sus vecinos regionales.

The Bahrain Grand Prix, held at the Sakhir Circuit since 2004, introduced Formula One to the Middle East and has served as the season-opening race multiple times — the circuit's outer 'endurance' layout hosted the first night race in F1 history in 2014, and Bahrain's investment in motorsport infrastructure made it the regional model for subsequent Saudi and Abu Dhabi race bids.

The Hawar Islands, a Bahraini archipelago in the Gulf just off the Qatari coast whose sovereignty was disputed in a 30-year ICJ case finally settled in 2001, support the second-largest breeding colony of the Socotra cormorant on Earth — a seabird whose mass nesting involves hundreds of thousands of individuals.