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A vast sea of sand dunes covers much of southern Dubai and eventually leads into the desert known as The Empty Quarter. Seismically, Dubai is in a very stable zone—the nearest seismic fault line, the Zagros Fault, is 200 kilometres (124 miles) from the UAE and is unlikely to have any seismic impact on Dubai. [4]
The land border with Qatar in the Khor Al Adaid area is a source of long-running dispute [3] (in fact, whether it even shares a land border with Qatar is in dispute). The total area of the UAE is approximately 83,600 square kilometres (32,300 square miles). [2]
Dubai [a] is the most populous city in the United Arab Emirates and the capital of the Emirate of Dubai, the most populous of the country's seven emirates. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] As of 2024, the city has a population of around 3.79 million, [ 8 ] more than 90% of which are expatriates .
Dubai has an area of 3,885 square kilometres (1,500 square miles), which is equivalent to 5% of the country's total area, excluding the islands. The Emirate of Sharjah extends along approximately 16 km (10 mi) of the UAE's Persian Gulf coastline and for more than 80 km (50 mi) into the interior.
Date joined the UAE Capital Area (km 2) [4] Area (sq mi) Abu Dhabi: أبو ظبي ʾAbū dhabī: 2 December 1971: Abu Dhabi: 67,340 26,000 Ajman: عجمان ʿAjmān: 2 December 1971: Ajman: 259 100 Dubai: دبي Dubai: 2 December 1971: Dubai: 4,114 1,590 Fujairah: الفجيرة Al-Fujayrah: 2 December 1971: Fujairah: 1,450 560 Ras Al Khaimah ...
Dubai, the most populous city in the United Arab Emirates Map of the United Arab Emirates. The table below shows a list of every city in the UAE with a population of at least 10,000, listed in descending order. The capitals are shown in bold.
The Dubai-based Blue Carbon has secured forested land nearly equivalent to the size of the United Kingdom across five African nations to run projects to conserve forests that might otherwise be ...
The city of Dubai is located on the coast of the Persian Gulf, while the Emirate stretches inland and is bordered to the south by the emirate of Abu Dhabi, to the northeast by the emirate of Sharjah, to the southeast by the country of Oman, to the east by the emirate of Ajman, and to the north by the emirate of Ras Al Khaimah.