Manama, Bahrain

Manama, Bahrain is a submarine cable landing point in Bahrain (coordinates 26.2290°, 50.5758°). It serves 4 submarine cable systems, making it a multi-cable landing site in Bahrain's international connectivity infrastructure.

Manama is the capital and largest city of Bahrain, with an approximate population of 743,066 as of 2025 estimate. Long an important trading center in the Persian Gulf, Manama is home to a diverse population. After periods of Portuguese and Persian control and a short invasion from the ruling dynasty of Saudi Arabia, followed by a longer invasion by Oman, Bahrain established itself as an independent nation in 1971 following a period of British hegemony. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Operators landing at Manama, Bahrain

Cables landing at Manama, Bahrain are operated by 26 distinct consortium partners and carriers, including Bahrain Telecommunications Company (Batelco), Bangladesh Submarine Cable Company Limited (BSCCL), Bayobab, Bharti Airtel, China Mobile, China Unicom, Dhiraagu, Djibouti Telecom, FLAG, Kuwait Ministry of Communications, and 16 others. Each cable is typically jointly owned by a consortium of tier-one carriers and hyperscale operators who share construction costs and capacity; the operator mix reflects both regional incumbents and global players with interest in the routes served by this landing point.

Connectivity profile

From Manama, Bahrain, international traffic can reach 40 countries through 4 cable systems. Destinations include Angola, Bangladesh, Comoros, Côte d'Ivoire, Dem. Rep., Djibouti, Egypt, France and 32 more.

Monitoring status

GeoCables recorded 2 monitoring events on cables serving Manama, Bahrain in the past 90 days. Our monitoring network continuously samples latency from external probes to targets reachable via these cables.

About the cables

• SeaMeWe-6 (2026) — SEA-ME-WE 6 is the sixth submarine cable in a series that has been laying fibre between Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Western Europe since 1985. The original SEA-ME-WE (just SEA-ME-WE, no number) was commissioned in 1985 as one of the earliest long-haul submarine cables in the modern sense. SEA-ME-WE 2 followed in 1994, SEA-ME-WE 3 in 1999, SEA-ME-WE 4 in 2005, SEA-ME-WE 5 in 2016. Read more →
• 2Africa (2024) — 2Africa is a major intercontinental submarine cable system spanning 34 countries across West Africa, Middle East, Southern Africa. With 50 landing points — including Abidjan, Abu Dhabi, Accra, Al Faw, Al Khobar, and 45 more — it forms one of the backbone links carrying international internet traffic between continents. Read more →
• FALCON (2006) — Every submarine cable has an owner. Most have had two. FALCON has survived three bankruptcies — and is still carrying traffic across fourteen countries, from Egypt to Sri Lanka, through some of the most politically complex waters on Earth. The Cable That Outlived Its Owners FALCON stands for FLAG Alcatel-Lucent Optical Network. Read more →
• Fiber Optic Gulf (FOG) (1998) — Fiber Optic Gulf (FOG) is a regional submarine cable connecting 4 countries — Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Bahrain — with 4 landing points including Doha, Qatar, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait City, Kuwait, Manama, Bahrain. It enhances regional connectivity and provides route diversity for internet traffic in Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Bahrain. Read more →

Submarine cable data from TeleGeography. Geographic context from Wikipedia. Monitoring metrics updated continuously by GeoCables.