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[2] [5] It is the site of Khor Fakkan Container Terminal, the only natural deep-sea port in the region and one of the major container ports in the UAE. [2] [3] [6] The Port of Khor Fakkan faces the Emirate of Sharjah’s eastern seaboard, extending connections with Asia and the Far East. This port is one of the Emirate’s three ports. [7]
Najd Al Miqsar is a historical abandoned settlement west of Khor Fakkan in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (UAE). It sits on top of Wadi Shie mountains and overlooks the city of Khor Fakkan. It is now a heritage village and popular tourist spot, showcasing the past traditional housing lifestyle, local agricultural and community practices.
Al Nahwa Cave (Arabic: كهف النحوه), also known as Kahf Aldaaba (كهف الدابة), is a cave and archaeological site located in Nahwa, northern Khor Fakkan, in the Emirate of Sharjah. Archaeological remains were discovered here in the 1930s.
Khorfakkan is a 2020 historical film directed by Ben Mole and Maurice Sweeney that tells the story of the resistance of Khorfakkan city against the Portuguese invasion in the 16th century.
It covers approximately 75 square kilometres (29 square miles) and the boundary was settled in 1969. The north-east corner of Madha is closest to the Khor Fakkan-Fujairah road, barely 10 metres (33 feet) away. Within the Omani exclave of Madha, is a UAE exclave called Nahwa, also belonging to the Emirate of Sharjah. It is about eight kilometres ...
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The rest house (also known as the 'cloud lounge') is reached by a 5.6 km roadway cut out of the mountain and is located 580 metres above sea level. [1] The 30-metre diameter building offers 360 degree panoramic views of Khor Fakkan, [2] and houses a branch of the Sharjah Art Foundation's Fen Café and a multipurpose hall, as well as a children's play park.
Khor Fakkan, a city in the Emirate of Sharjah, has one of the major container ports in the eastern seaboard of the United Arab Emirates. U.S. Navy, French Navy, and Italian Navy aircraft carriers conduct operations in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility in the Gulf of Oman.