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The World Factbook. 2008.
United Arab Emirates
| |  | | United Arab Emirates | | | | federation of sheikhdoms (1995 est. pop. 2,925,000), c.30,000 sq mi (77,700 sq km), SE Arabia, on the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. The federation, commonly known as the UAE, consists of seven sheikhdoms: Abu Dhabi (territorially the largest of the sheikhdoms), Ajman, Dubai, Fujairah, Ras al-Khaimah, Sharjah, and Umm al-Qaiwain. The city of Abu Dhabi (1991 est. pop. 798,000) in Abu Dhabi is the capital.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. (Copyright © 2003 Columbia University Press. | | | Pronunciation:  y -n ´t d from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 1993–2020 by Houghton Mifflin Company. | | | | CATEGORIES | - Background
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