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Atlas of the United Arab Emirates

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United Arab Emirates

	الإمارات العربية المتحدة

العربية	^[1]الإمارات العربية المتحدة الإمارات العربية المتحدة هي دولة تقع في شرق شبه الجزيرة العربية في جنوب غرب قارة آسيا وتطل على الشاطئ الجنوبي للخليج العربي . تحدها من الجنوب والغرب المملكة العربية السعودية و من الجنوب الشرقي سلطنة عُمان. تأتي تسمية الإمارات نسبة إلى الإمارات السبع المشكلة للإتحاد و هي: أبوظبي، دبي، الشارقة، عجمان، رأس الخيمة، أم القيوين و الفجيرة. قبل قيام الاتحاد في عام 1971 كانت تعرف باسم الإمارات المتصالحة والساحل المتصالح وساحل عمان. وتعتبر من الدول الغنية بالنفط الذي يتركز معظمه في إمارة أبوظبي.
English	United Arab Emirates - United Arab Emirates TheUnited Arab Emirates is a Middle Eastern country situated in the southeast of the Arabian Peninsula in Southwest Asia on the Persian Gulf, comprising seven emirates: Abu Dhabi, Ajmān, Dubai, Fujairah, Ras al-Khaimah, Sharjah, and Umm al-Quwain. Before 1971, they were known as the Trucial States or Trucial Oman, in reference of a nineteenth-century truce between Britain and several Arab Sheikhs. It borders► Oman and► Saudi Arabia. The country is rich in oil.

Short name	United Arab Emirates
Official name	United Arab Emirates
Status	Independent country since 1971
Location	Middle East
Capital	^[2] أبو ظبي (Abu Dhabi)
Population	9,304,277 inhabitants
Area	83,600 square kilometres (32,300 sq mi)
Major languages	Arabic (official)
Major religions	Islam
More information	United Arab Emirates,Geography of the United Arab Emirates,History of the United Arab Emirates andPolitics of the United Arab Emirates
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General maps

Map of the United Arab Emirates

Emirates of the United Arab Emirates

Administrative map of the United Arab Emirates

Rub' al Khali or Empty Quarter (in German)

History maps

This section holds a short summary of the history of the area of present-day the United Arab Emirates, illustrated with maps, including historical maps of former countries and empires that included present-day the United Arab Emirates.

TheParthian Empire (250 BCE-226 CE)

Map of Parthia 100 BC

Indo-Sassanide Empire

The PersianSassanian Empire (226-650) in 602 to 629, Strokes: Under Sassanid military control.

Sassanide Empire

Expansion of theCaliphate: I: Muhammad; II: Abu Bakr; III: Omar and IV: Othman

Age of theCaliphs

Caliphate around 750

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Caliphate around 750

see also:Abbasid provinces during the caliphate of Harun al-Rashid, around 800

Satellite maps

Satellite map of the United Arab Emirates

Rub' al Khali

Notes and references

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