Abu Dhabi
The Emirate of Abu Dhabi is one of seven emirates that constitute the United Arab Emirates. It is the largest emirate, accounting for 87% of the nation's total land area or 67,340 km2.Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Abu Dhabi and Al Ain.
Abu Dhabi
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Abu Dhabi is the federal capital and the seat of the three branches of government of the United Arab Emirates. It is the largest city and capital of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi.
Al Ain
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Al Ain is the garden city of United Arab Emirates. This oasis town is next to, and virtually merged with, the Omani town of Buraimi. The "Cultural Sites of Al Ain " have been inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list.
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Yas Island
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Yas Island is an island near the city of Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. The island is home to several theme park-based attractions such as Warner Bros.
Sir Bani Yas Island
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Sir Bani Yas is a natural island located 170 km southwest of Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates. It lies 9 km offshore from Jebel Dhanna, which serves as a crossing point to other islands, such as Dalma.
Liwa Oasis
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The Liwa Oasis is a cluster of villages and oases in the United Arab Emirates.
Ruwais
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Ruwais is a small town rapidly developing into a city in the western part of the emirate of Abu Dhabi, about 240 km west of the city of Abu Dhabi.
Abu Dhabi
- Type: State with 3,790,000 residents
- Description: emirate of the United Arab Emirates
- Also known as: “Abu Dhabi (emirate)”, “Abu Dhabi (Emirate)”, “Abu Dhabi emirate”, “Abu Dhabi Emirate”, “Abu Zaby (emirate)”, “Abu Ẓaby (emirate)”, “Abū Z̧aby (emirate)”, “Emirate of Abu Dhabi”, “Imārat Abū Z̧aby”, “Shaikhdom of Abu Dhabi”, and “The Emirate of Abu Dhabi”
- Neighbors: Eastern Province and Sharjah
- Categories: emirate of the United Arab Emirates and locality
- Location: United Arab Emirates, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude of center
24.3438° or 24° 20′ 38″ northLongitude of center
55.1° or 55° 6′ eastPopulation
3,790,000Elevation
100 metres (328 feet)OpenStreetMap ID
node 13277432916OpenStreetMap feature
place=state
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Abu Dhabi” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Aboe Dhabi”
- Amharic: “አቡ ዳቢ”
- Arabic: “أبو ظبي (إمارة)”
- Arabic: “أبو ظبي”
- Arabic: “أبوظبي (إمارة)”
- Arabic: “إمارة أبو ظبي”
- Arabic: “إمارة أبوظبي”
- Armenian: “Աբու Դաբիի Էմիրություն”
- Arpitan: “Abou Dabi”
- Asturian: “Emiratu d’Abu Dhabi”
- Azerbaijani: “Əbu Dabi əmirliyi”
- Azerbaijani: “Əbu-Dabi əmirliyi”
- Azerbaijani: “Əbu-Dabi”
- Basque: “Abu Dhabi”
- Belarusian: “Абу Дабі”
- Belarusian: “Абу-Дабі”
- Belarusian: “Эмірат Абу-Дабі”
- Bengali: “আবুধাবি আমিরাত”
- Bosnian: “Abu Dhabi (emirat)”
- Bosnian: “Abu Dhabi”
- Breton: “Abu Dhabi”
- Bulgarian: “Абу Даби”
- Catalan: “Abu Dhabi”
- Catalan: “Abū Zaby”
- Catalan: “Emirat d’Abu Dhabi”
- Cebuano: “Abū Z̧aby”
- Chinese: “Abu Dhabi Thâu-lâng-kok”
- Chinese: “阿布扎比”
- Chinese: “阿布扎比酋長國”
- Chinese: “阿布扎比酋长国”
- Chinese: “阿布達比酋長國”
- Croatian: “Abu Dabi”
- Croatian: “Abu Dhabi”
- Czech: “Abu Dhabi”
- Czech: “Abú Dhabi”
- Czech: “Abú Dhabí”
- Czech: “Abú Zabí”
- Danish: “Abu Dhabi”
- Danish: “Emiratet Abu Dhabi”
- Dutch: “Abu Dhabi”
- Egyptian Arabic: “امارة ابوظبى”
- Esperanto: “Abu-Dabio”
- Esperanto: “Abudabio”
- Esperanto: “Emirlando Abudabio”
- Estonian: “Abu Dhabi emiraat”
- Estonian: “Abu Dhabi”
- Fiji Hindi: “Abu Dhabi”
- Finnish: “Abu Dhabi”
- Finnish: “Abu Dhabin emiirikunta”
- Finnish: “Abu Dhabin emiraatti”
- French: “Abou Dabi”
- French: “Aboû Dabî”
- French: “Abou Dhabi”
- French: “Abu Dhabi”
- French: “Émirat d’Abou Dabi”
- Galician: “Emirato de Abu Dabi”
- Galician: “Emirato de Abu Zabi”
- Georgian: “აბუ-დაბის საამირო”
- German: “Abu Dhabi”
- German: “Abu Zaby”
- German: “AE-AZ”
- German: “Emirat Abu Dhabi”
- Greek: “Εμιράτο του Άμπου Ντάμπι”
- Gujarati: “અબુ ધાબી અમીરાત”
- Hausa: “Abu Dhabi (Masarauta)”
- Hausa: “Abu Dhabi”
- Hebrew: “אבו דאבי”
- Hindi: “अबू धाबी अमीरात”
- Indonesian: “Abu Dhabi Emirate”
- Indonesian: “Keamiran Abu Dhabi”
- Interlingue: “Emiratu Abu Dhabi”
- Italian: “Abu Dhabi”
- Italian: “Abu Ẓaby”
- Italian: “Emirato di Abu Dhabi”
- Japanese: “アブダビ”
- Japanese: “アブダビ首長国”
- Javanese: “Abu Dhabi”
- Kabyle: “Limara n Abu Ḍabi”
- Kannada: “ಅಬುಧಾಬಿ ಎಮಿರೇಟ್”
- Kashmiri: “ابوٗظہبی امارات”
- Kazakh: “Abw-Dabï”
- Kazakh: “Абу-Даби”
- Kazakh: “ابۋ-دابىي”
- Kirghiz: “Абу-Даби”
- Korean: “아부다비 토후국”
- Korean: “아부다비의 토후국”
- Kurdish: “Îmarata Abû Zebî”
- Kurdish: “Îmarata Ebû Zebî”
- Latvian: “Abū Dabī emirāts”
- Latvian: “Abū Dabī”
- Lithuanian: “Abu Dabio emyratas”
- Lithuanian: “Abu Dabis”
- Lombard: “Abu Dhabi”
- Luxembourgish: “Abu Dhabi”
- Macedonian: “Абу Даби”
- Malagasy: “Abu Dhabi (emirata)”
- Malagasy: “Abu Dhabi”
- Malay: “Abu Dhabi Emirate”
- Malay: “Amiriah Abu Dhabi”
- Malayalam: “അബുദാബി”
- Marathi: “अबु धाबी”
- Marathi: “अबू धाबी अमिरात”
- Mazanderani: “ابوظبی”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Abu Dhabi Thâu-lâng-kok”
- Mingrelian: “აბუ-დაბიშ საამირო”
- Mongolian: “Абу-Даби”
- Mongolian: “Эмирт Абу-Даби”
- Nepali: “अबु धाबी इमिरेट्स”
- Northern Frisian: “Abu Dhabi”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Emiratet Abu Dhabi”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “أبوظبي”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Emiratet Abu Dhabi”
- Norwegian: “Abu Dhabi”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Emirat d’Abu Dhabi”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Abu Dhabi”
- Oromo: “Abu Dhabi”
- Ossetian: “Абу-Даби (эмират)”
- Ossetian: “Абу-Даби”
- Panjabi: “ਅਬੂ ਧਾਬੀ”
- Persian: “ابوظبی (امارت)”
- Persian: “ابوظبی”
- Persian: “امارت ابوظبی”
- Piemontese: “Abu Dhabi”
- Polish: “Abu Zabi”
- Portuguese: “Emirado Abu Dhabi”
- Portuguese: “Emirato Abu Dhabi”
- Pushto: “ابوظبۍ (امارت)”
- Pushto: “ابوظبۍ”
- Romanian: “Abu Dhabi”
- Romanian: “Emiratul Abu Dhabi”
- Russian: “Абу-Даби эмират”
- Russian: “Абу-Даби”
- Russian: “Абу-Заби”
- Sardinian: “Abu Dhabi”
- Sardinian: “Emiradu de Abu Dhabi”
- Scots: “Abu Dhabi”
- Serbian: “Abu Dabi”
- Serbian: “Абу Даби”
- Serbian: “Емират Абу Даби”
- Serbian: “Категорија:Абу Даби (емират)”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Abu Dabi”
- Sinhala: “අබුඩාබි එමිරේට්”
- Slovak: “Abú Zabí”
- Slovenian: “Emirat Abu Dabi”
- Somali: “Abu Dhabi”
- South Azerbaijani: “ابوظبی امیرلیگی”
- Spanish: “Abu Dabi”
- Spanish: “Abu Dhabi”
- Swahili: “Abu Dhabi”
- Swedish: “Abu Dhabi”
- Swedish: “Emiratet Abu Dhabi”
- Tajik: “Имарати Абу-Дабӣ”
- Talysh: “Əbu Dabi”
- Tamil: “அபுதாபி அமீரகம்”
- Tamil: “அபுதாபி”
- Tamil: “அபூ ழபீ அமீரகம்”
- Tamil: “அபூ ழபீ”
- Tatar: “Әбу-Даби”
- Tatar: “Әбү-Дәби әмирлеге”
- Telugu: “అబు ధాబి ఎమిరేట్”
- Thai: “รัฐอาบูดาบี”
- Turkish: “Abu Dabi Emirliği”
- Turkish: “Abu Dabi”
- Ukrainian: “Абу-Дабі”
- Urdu: “ابوظہبی”
- Urdu: “امارت ابو ظہبی”
- Uzbek: “Abu-Dabi (amirlik)”
- Uzbek: “Abu-Dabi”
- Vietnamese: “Abu Dhabi”
- Volapük: “Läbu-Sabyän”
- Waray (Philippines): “Emirato han Abu Dhabi”
- Western Panjabi: “ابوظہبی (امارت)”
- Western Panjabi: “ابوظہبی”
- Wu Chinese: “阿布扎比酋长国”
- Yue Chinese: “阿布扎比酋長國”
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