context: Qatar is an Arab country located in the east of the Arabian Peninsula in southwest Asia overlooking the Arabian Gulf and its capital, Doha. It has common land borders from the south with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and marine with the United Arab Emirates, the Kingdom of Bahrain. In the aftermath of the Ottoman rule, Qatar became a British protectorate in the early twentieth century until it gained independence in 1971. Qatar has ruled the Al-Thani family since the mid-nineteenth century shortly after it came from the Ashiker governorate in Najd [1]. The system of government in Qatar is a constitutional hereditary emirate, and the ruler of the state is Prince Tamim bin Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani. The people approved the constitution by an overwhelming majority in a constitutional referendum, at approximately 98%, in favor of the project. In 2013, the total population of Qatar was 1.8 million: the number of indigenous Qatari citizens 300,000 and foreigners 1.5 million. Qatar is the most conservative society after the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council.
question: Where is Qatar?
answers.text: southwest Asia