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A guide to the eight stadiums hosting games at the 2022 World Cup

Stadium 974 is seen in Doha, Qatar, on Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2022, ahead of the Qatar 2022 World Cup.

One stadium looks like a boat, another like a giant Bedouin tent. One was built with 974 shipping containers.

Qatar's World Cup venues are as spectacular as the tournament they will host. And though the combined price tag for building or refurbishing all eight stadiums was less than what Stan Kroenke paid for SoFi Stadium alone, the cost of construction was enormously high in human terms.

A detailed analysis by the Guardian found the deaths of 37 workers were directly linked to stadium construction, part of a grim toll of more than 6,500 migrant laborers who died between 2011 and 2020, many while helping build World Cup infrastructure. The low cost of stadium construction reflects the even lower cost of labor in Qatar.

"The migrant workforce has been designed to

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