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Dubai Metro is the Arabian peninsula's first rapid transit system and was the world's longest driverless metro network until 2016. A 1,200 km (750 mi) country-wide railway is under construction which will connect all the major cities and ports. [253] The Dubai Metro is the first urban train network in the Arabian Peninsula. [254]
Dubai [a] is the most populous city in the United Arab Emirates and the capital of the Emirate of Dubai, the most populated of the country's seven emirates. [7] [8] [9] The city has a population of around 3.6 million (as of 2022), [10] more than 90% of which are expatriates.
Egypt. United Arab Emirates. Since the independence of the United Arab Emirates from Britain in 1971, Egypt and the UAE relations (Arabic: العلاقات المصرية الإماراتية) were always at a good level and developing at an unprecedented rate. Egypt has an embassy in Abu Dhabi and consulate-general in Dubai while the UAE ...
Al Fahidi Fort in Dubai in the late 1950s, built in 1787 Al Fahidi Fort today. Al Fahidi Fort is the oldest existing building in Dubai.. The Umayyads introduced Islam to the area in the 7th century [13] and sparked the vitalization of the area, opening up trade routes supported by fishing and pearl diving to eastern regions such as modern-day Pakistan and India, with reports of ships ...
Middle East map of Köppen climate classification. The Middle East (term originally coined in English [see § Terminology][note 1]) is a geopolitical region encompassing the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, and Iraq. The term came into widespread usage as a replacement of the term Near East (as opposed to the Far East ...
Independent state, 1971–present. The UAE founded the Gulf Cooperation Council in 1981 with fellow Arab states of the Persian Gulf at a meeting in Abu Dhabi following the Iran–Iraq War. [24] During the Gulf War, UAE forces participated in fighting while US forces used the country as a base. [25]
Populations. 72,000 (Umm Al Quwain) – 4,177,059 (Dubai) Areas. 260 km 2 (100 sq mi) (Ajman) – 67,000 km 2 (26,000 sq mi) (Abu Dhabi) Government. Emirate government. Subdivisions. Regions, Municipalities, Counties. The United Arab Emirates consists of seven emirates (Arabic: إمارات ʾimārāt; singular: إمارة ʾimārah), which ...
Satellite view of the Arabian Peninsula. The Arabian Peninsula [1] (/ ə ˈ r eɪ b i ə n ... /; Arabic: شِبْهُ الْجَزِيرَة الْعَرَبِيَّة, shibhu l-jazīra l-ʿarabiyya, "Arabian Peninsula" or جَزِيرَةُ الْعَرَب, jazīratu l-ʿarab, "Island of the Arabs"), [2] or Arabia, is a peninsula in West Asia, situated northeast of Africa on the Arabian Plate.