Home to the tallest building on Earth, on a coastline that was mostly fishing villages within living memory.
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United Arab Emirates
United Arab Emirates ยท ุงูุฅู
ุงุฑุงุช
Asia
ยท Western Asia
0Population
83.6Kkmยฒ of land
$43.1KGDP / person
Abu DhabiCapital
- ISO codes
- AE ยท ARE
- Density
- 117 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- Arabic
- Currency
- United Arab Emirates dirham (AED)
- Dial code
- +971
- Internet domain
- .ae
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 23.4660ยฐ N, 54.5470ยฐ E
- Demonym
- Emirati
- UN region
- Western Asia
- Economy
- Developing region
- Income group
- High income: nonOECD
- Total GDP
- $421.14B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 2
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By the numbers
How United Arab Emirates stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
92nd
of 242 ยท 0.13% of world population
Land area
117th
of 242 ยท 0.06% of world land
GDP per person
36th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
90th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about United Arab Emirates
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 9,770,529 people, the 92nd largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly 0.13 per cent of everyone alive.
Covers 83,600 kmยฒ, making it the 117th largest country here - about 9 times the size of Cyprus.
Population density is about 117 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Abu Dhabi, at 24.47ยฐ N, 54.37ยฐ E, with a metropolitan population of about 603,492.
Shares land borders with 2 countries: Oman and Saudi Arabia.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, Asia/Dubai.
The currency is the United Arab Emirates dirham (AED, symbol ุฏ.ุฅ).
The official language is Arabic.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Asia/Dubai
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UTC+04:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
1
Dubai
Dubay
25.2319ยฐ N, 55.2780ยฐ E
1.38M
2
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Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi
24.4667ยฐ N, 54.3666ยฐ E
603.49K
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Dubai
City
Home to the tallest building on Earth, on a coastline that was mostly fishing villages within living memory.
Land neighbours
2 countries share a border with United Arab Emirates.