Market and location intelligence
for the Middle East and North Africa.

Compare cities, free zones, costs, incentives, talent, infrastructure, procurement, and market signals across the Middle East and North Africa.

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What brings you here

Four ways in — pick the job you're here to do

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Set up or grow operations
Shortlist cities and compare costs, incentives, free zones, and operating conditions.
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Invest
Find live opportunities
Browse tenders, RFPs, and investment opportunities across MENA markets.
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Attract
Represent your market
Manage official data, benchmark peer markets, and connect with qualified users.
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Research
Understand the region
Sourced research and market intelligence on 95+ cities across 21 countries.
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A sample of sourced, comparable fields. Open the full comparison for 95+ cities.

Metric Muscat Manama Doha
Corporate tax15%0%10%
Free-zone corporate tax0%0%0%
VAT5%10%0%
Personal income tax0%0%0%
CurrencyOMRBHDQAR
National-level figures applied to each city. See Methodology. Compare cities
95+
Arab cities tracked
21
countries covered
8
data categories per city

Free zones, incentives & business-setup data · procurement opportunities · market signals from sourced updates · city and free-zone comparisons.

Regional intelligence

What you can track across the Middle East and North Africa

Tax & regulation
Track corporate tax, VAT, ownership rules, and business-setup changes.
Free zones & incentives
Compare incentives, tax holidays, sector fit, and setup requirements.
Infrastructure & corridors
Monitor ports, rail, logistics routes, industrial zones, and major projects.
Procurement & projects
Find public opportunities, tenders, and project pipelines.

New · Insights & Reports

Gulf Tax & Free Zone Outlook 2026–2028

A sourced intelligence brief on the tax, free-zone, and market-entry changes reshaping the Gulf — UAE corporate tax, Bahrain from 2027, Oman from 2028, the 15% global minimum tax, and the 2025 free-zone rule changes.

Every figure sourced. Introductory pricing for early subscribers. View reports →

New · Ask CityCalc

Ask CityCalc — answers from sourced data.

Questions about Arab cities answered from CityCalc's structured data — corporate tax, free zones, talent, and legal facts — with every answer cited. Coming soon.

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