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A pair of fulvous whistling ducks (Dendrocygna bicolor) at Wasit Wetland CentreWasit Wetland Centre is a conservation area in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.It preserves an area of a type of wetland (sabkha or salt plain) once common along the western coastal plains of the UAE and consists of a visitor centre with viewing points to both captive and wild birds, as well as extensive areas of ...
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 population numbers are of the cities, and not the emirates, often with the same name.
Wasit Wetland Centre This page was last edited on 31 December 2018, at 21:53 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...
The Sharjah Light Festival (SLF) [8] is a light show that takes place annually in the Emirate of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. The festival was first established in 2010 under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Dr. Sultan bin Muhammad Al Qasimi, Member of the Supreme Council and Ruler of Sharjah, and has since become an integral part of the ...
United Arab Emirates accepted the convention on May 11 2001, making its historical sites eligible for inclusion on the list. As of 2024, The United Arab Emirates have only one World Heritage Site, Al Ain, which was inscribed in 2011. [2]
Dhaid, or Al Dhaid (Arabic: ٱلذَّيْد, romanized: Adh-Dhayd), is the capital of the Central Region of the Emirate of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates.An oasis town, it has extensive irrigated date palm plantations with water channelled from the nearby Hajar mountains, at least in part through ancient tunnels dug for that purpose, known as aflāj in Arabic (falaj in the singular).
The island, an environmentally protected area under the Sharjah Environment and Protected Areas Authority (EPAA), [8] [9] has been registered on the list of wetlands of international importance under the Ramsar Convention, [10] [11] [12] and was in 2012 listed as a potential UNESCO World Heritage Site. [13]
This is a list of wadis in United Arab Emirates arranged by drainage basin. ... Wadi Helo / Wādī Al Ḥilū / Wadi Hilu, in Sharjah, Fujairah and Oman [4] [19] ...