Table 1.

Key characteristic of GCC countries

	Bahrain	Kuwait	Oman	Qatar	Saudi Arabia	UAE
Geographic Size (Thousand square km)	0.77	17.82	309.5	11.6	2000	71.02
Capital	Manama	Kuwait	Muscat	Doha	Riyadh	Abu Dhabi
Primary Language	Arabic	Arabic	Arabic	Arabic	Arabic	Arabic
Population (Million People)	1.37	3.97	4.16	2.44	31.52	8.26
Gross Domestic Product (Billion US Dollar)	31.13	114	69.8	164.64	646	370.3
Per Capita Gross Domestic (Thousand US Dollar)	22.71	28.7	16.8	67.5	20.8	48.33

Source: Secretariat General of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf [5]