Qatar shares maritime borders with Iran and the United Arab Emirates.
Qatar . Its sole land border is with Saudi Arabia to the south , with the rest of its territory surrounded by the Persian Gulf . A strait in the Persian Gulf separates Qatar from the nearby island country of Bahrain , as well as sharing maritime borders with the United Arab Emirates and Iran . The United Arab Emirates ( [ juːˌnaɪtᵻd_ˌærəb_ˈɛmɪrᵻts ] دولة الإمارات العربية المتحدة ) , sometimes simply called the Emirates or the UAE , is a federal absolute monarchy in Western Asia at the southeast end of the Arabian Peninsula on the Persian Gulf , bordering Oman to the east and Saudi Arabia to the south , as well as sharing maritime borders with Qatar to the west and Iran to the north .