Qatar Celebrates National Day Same Day as World Cup Final

Lifestyle & TravelTravel ♦ Published: December 18, 2022; 21:57 ♦ (Vindobona)

Qatar celebrates its most important holiday of the year through a bunch of events annually. This time, it is more of a special occasion, since on the same day as the national day the Fifa World Cup Final is also held in Qatar, which boosts the celebratory atmosphere in the country.

A Parade for the Qatar National Day. / Picture: © Wikimedia Commons / Mohamod Fasil, CC BY 2.0

December 18 is Qatar’s National Day, which commemorates the unification of the country in 1878a and the day Sheikh Jassim bin Mohammad bin Thani succeeded his father as the leader of the tribes in Qatar. In Vienna, on December 13, the Ambassador of Qatar to Austria H.E Sultan bin Salmeen Al-Mansouri invited several Ambassadors and Diplomats to a reception at Park Hyatt…