United Arab Emirates:Information, Geography and History

INTRODUCTION

•  Full name: United Arab Emirates.

•  Capital City: Abu Dhabi.

•  Language: Arabic, Persian, English, Hindi and Urdu.

•  Currency: United Arab Emirates Dirham or UAE Dirham.

•  Religion: Muslim: Sunni and Shi'a, Hindu, Christian and other.

•  National Anthem: “ Arabic Emirati Tahiat Alalam ”; it begins with the words which translates in English as “ Live my country, the unity of our Emirates lives” .

•  Newspaper: 7Days, Al Bayan, Al-Khaleej, DPM News Agency, Al-reyadha wa Al-shabab, Gulf News and Khaleej Times.

•  Places to Visit: Grand Mosque, Dubai Museum in Al Fahidi Fort, H.H. Sheikh Saeed House, Heritage & Diving Village, Heritage & Diving Village, Hatta Rock Pools, Jumeirah Mosque, Godolphin Gallery.

•  Transport: Airways; Waterways/Ports:-Ajman, Fujairah, Das Island, Khawr Fakkan; Roadways.

•  Shopping: automobiles, jewellery, books, communication products, electronics; in fact anything that catches your fancy because it's all duty free.

Better known as the UAE, and once known as the Trucial Oman – after a treaty that was reached between the Sheiks of the respective states and the Britain – the United Arab Emirates is an amalgam of seven states which are sovereign in their own right. This collection of the seven states is called the Shaykhdoms. The seven states that form the conglomeration are Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Dubai, Fujairah, Ras al-Khaimah, Sharjah, and Umm al-Quwain. The United Arab Emirates is renowned for their oil reserve.

LOCATION OF UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

United Arab Emirates is located in the south west of the Asian continent which is commonly termed as the Middle East. The Persian Gulf lines its coast in the west and the Arabian Peninsula in the south east. Its immediate neighbors are the countries of Oman and Saudi Arabia.

PHYSICAL MAP OF UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

The landscape of the United Arab Emirates is made up of vast stretches of undulating desert sands. Though, modernity and technology has enabled agricultural development in the interiors of the desert-land. The coastal regions are slightly different, though even they are not arable, being mostly salt-plains.

CLIMATE OF UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

To put the description of the climatic conditions of the United Arab Emirates in one word would be to define it as desert. It has desert climate and that explains most of it. However, to be more specific, it has an arid combined with subtropical climate. Rainfall is either very little or absolutely non existent in the summers, which are dry and sweltering. The summer months fall between May and September, while winters are the months of January and February. The months in between – that is October to April – are pretty much pleasant; but the nights can be chilly. Whatever rainfall the land gets is restricted to January and February.

FLORA AND FAUNA OF UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

Given that the United Arab Emirates is primarily desert-land, the vegetation of the land is according to the terrain. So two categories of flora are to be found thriving on the land; one of these is the desert type that blossoms to life after the land receives rainfall, and the other is that which is capable of sustaining itself without much water. The second type depends on the salt in the ground, and include swam plants. So there are wild desert flowers, wild date palms, shrubs and grasses. The inventory of the fauna of the land is large, though not as diverse. There is the Jerboa, wildcat, fox, lynx, jackal, wolf, gazelle, hare, hedgehogs and mongoose. As far as avian fauna is concerned, you name it and it's on the list of the birds in the United Arab Emirates. There is some 250 species existent in the United Arab Emirates. The names of the birds which comprise the population are , harriers , kites, waders, buzzards, ospreys, eagles, terns, falcons, gulls, owls flamingos and houbara – just to name a few.

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