About United Arab Emirates

The United Arab Emirates, sometimes simply called the Emirates, is a country in Western Asia at the southeast end of the Arabian Peninsula on the Persian Gulf, bordering Oman to the east and Saudi Arabia to the south and west, as well as sharing maritime borders with Qatar to the west and Iran to the north.

• Capital: Abu Dhabi
• Currency: United Arab Emirates dirham
• Population: 9.4 million (2017) World Bank
• Points of interest: Burj Khalifa, Burj Al Arab Jumeirah
• Did you know: United Arab Emirates has the ninth-highest greenhouse gas emissions per capita (24.59 tonnes) in the world.