United Arab Emirates
United Arab Emirates is a country in Western Asia, with its capital at Abu Dhabi, and is home to roughly 11.0M people.
Arabic is the official language; the currency in circulation is United Arab Emirates dirham (د.إ); people from here are called Emirati.
- »The UAE is a federation of seven emirates, each with its own ruler.
- »The Burj Khalifa is the tallest building in the world.
United Arab Emirates straddles the Tropic of Cancer.
United Arab Emirates touches two neighbours: Oman to the southeast and Saudi Arabia to the west. Directions run from one centre to the other.
Abu Dhabi is the capital, though Dubai is larger and better known abroad. The city sits on an island connected to the mainland by bridges.
71,195 km² (27,489 sq mi), 118th largest of 198 countries and territories on file, almost exactly the size of Sierra Leone.
Population 10,986,400, 86th of 198 on file. That averages 154 per km² (400 per sq mi).
Pan-Arab colours in a design chosen from over a thousand entries in a 1971 competition, won by a 19-year-old, Abdullah Mohammed Al Maainah.