Three cities are competing for the rights to the Middle East’s first Angry Birds theme park, according to local media.

Angry Birds is the App Store’s most downloaded app of all time and there are already Angry Birds theme parks in the UK, Finland and Singapore.

Abu Dhabi and Al Ain in the United Arab Emirates are competing with each other, along with Qatar’s Doha, to host the park, which is expected to cost up to $16m.

"We are speaking to private investors in Doha and the UAE who are interested in installing the first Angry Birds theme park in the region, but Doha is in the more advanced stages of negotiation," Nigel Cann, director of operations and development at Gebal Group, the local agents for playground equipment manufacturer Lappset, told The National.