Zubarah is a now ruined city, the ruins of which are located in the desert on the northwestern coast of Qatar, in the municipality of Ash Shamal, at a distance of about 105 km from the capital of Qatar, Doha. The city was founded by merchants from Kuwait in the middle of the 18th century.

Zubarakh was once a flourishing center of trade and pearl fishing, located at the crossroads of trade routes between the Strait of Hormuz and the western part of the Persian Gulf. Today, its ruins are one of the largest and best-preserved examples of trading cities in the Persian Gulf of the 18th-19th centuries.
The area of ​​the ruins of the city is about 400 hectares (60 hectares – the territory surrounded by city walls). As an archaeological monument, Zubarakh includes the ruins of a fortified city with internal walls of a later construction and previously built external ones, a harbor, a sea channel and Fort Zubarakh, built later than the rest of the objects.

In 2013, Zubarakh was included in the UNESCO World Heritage List.