- Official name: The Kingdom of Bahrain
- Geography: island located in the Arabian Gulf between the Qatar Peninsula and northeastern coast of Saudi Arabia
- Capital: Manama
- Currency: Bahraini Dinar (BHD) – the second-highest valued currency in the world with an exchange rate of 1BHD=2.65USD
- Population: over 1,400,000 (2017)
- Languages: Arabic is the official language and English is commonly spoken outside work and in all retail stores and services along with Farsi and Urdu
The 2016 Expat Explorer Survey, commissioned by the HSBC Expat, ranked Bahrain the 9th best place in the world to be an expatriate.
