The United Arab Emirates has made ​​an active and influential presence on the world tourism map

The development of racing against time and hugs the fore during the two decades the United Arab Emirates has made an active and influential presence on the world tourism map, but surpassed many countries that preceded it in a world of tourism tensYears. And enjoyed the United Arab Emirates sophisticated tourist structure, and was able to devise ways to attract unprecedented encouraged tourists Artaadha. And making the United Arab Emirates wide efforts in the development of various tourist facilities to satisfy the desires of tourists, including Gorgeous beaches in the east and most splendor and virginity in the north, as well as advanced services in the field of upscale hotel and rapid technical communication and transportation is convenient and regular. And evaluate the UAE festivals annually attracts huge numbers of tourists, primarily the Dubai Shopping Festival, the largest and most popular festivals, shopping and entertainment in the Middle East, which includes hundreds of different activities, and the most important achievements since its inception in 1995 evoke the world to Dubai and taking Dubai to the world.
Basic information
Capital: Abu Dhabi Area: The area of ​​the country is about 83,600 square kilometers, and thus ranks third among the Gulf Cooperation Council for the Arab Gulf States in terms of area, after Saudi Arabia and Oman.
Population:
Two million and 262 thousand and 309 people from citizens and residents.

Natural Resources:
Petroleum and natural gas.

Currency: AED.

Opening hours:
Government sector: Saturday to Wednesday from 7.30 am to 1.30 pm - Thursday: from 7.30 am to 12 noon - private sector: from 8 am until one pm, and the fourth afternoon until seven in the evening, while shops operate seven days a week from eight in the morning until one in the afternoon and four thirty pm until ten pm. Time: Add four hours to Greenwich Mean Time. Weekend: Friday and Saturday to government departments: Friday for the private sector.

Visa:
Mandatory visa except nationals of the Gulf Cooperation Council. And granted a visa to others for a period of 30 days provided greeted upon arrival by the citizens of the UAE or by the institution.

Major cities:
Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Ras Al Khaimah, Ajman, Fujairah and Umm al-Quwain. And each emirate is named after the main city in addition to the city of Al Ain.

Airports: There are several international airports in Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah and Ras Al Khaimah, Al Ain and Fujairah.
Ports: the most famous Jebel Ali Port and Port Zayed and Port Rashid and the port of Sharjah. Climate: summer temperatures range between 35 and 40 degrees Celsius, up to 48 degrees Celsius along the shore of the Gulf, and much moisture until it reaches saturation in some areas, while the winter, so that in the range of 20 degrees Celsius.
About Geography UAE bounded Arabian Gulf to the north and Oman to the east and Saudi Arabia to the south and west while Qatar Fathdha from the northwest, stretching coast state distance 644 km from the base of the Qatar Peninsula in the west to Ras Musandam east. And most of its desert interspersed with several oases famous, the most important of those operated by the city of Al Ain and its suburbs, and is Jebel Hafeet end Koreans Buraimi Oasis and has a height of about 1220 meters, and there Hajar mountain range, which split the Musandam peninsula and stretching 80 kilometers north and south widths up to 32 km Vtakhtriq Oman to reach the eastern edge of the Arabian Peninsula. In the foothills of the northern regions of this series lies Ras Al Khaimah, and most of the coast of the state sandy regions except the Musandam peninsula that constitute the head Hajar mountain range, and is characterized by the territorial waters of the State of abundance of coral reefs which, although they constitute contraindications natural hinder navigation It is rich Bmhar Pearl's famous Gulf region and was the main source of income over the ages. And tracking the state hundreds of islands scattered about 200 islands belonging to the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, the most important Das Island and Delma famous its ancient past and the island of Umm Al Nar and the islands of Abu Musa and the Greater and Lesser Tunbs occupied by Iran. History was the first inhabitants of trade working alongside the sea, and in the seventh century AD God blessed them to enter Islam, and in the early nineteenth century and Britain signed treaties with local rulers in these areas, which has become under its protection. In 1952, Britain established the so-called seven Trucial Emirates in order to configure the union between them after that, and in the second day of December / December 1971 was officially declared the country's independence from Britain, announced the establishment of the United Arab Emirates and each emirate retained a kind of self-governance. Since then launched a train unit in the state momentum enormous, the people's work and leadership together to integrate with the spirit of the modern era in a holistic manner in all fields of life, and made the young state high rates of rapid growth are rare verification in many developing societies, or even advanced. Abu Dhabi the largest of the seven emirates with an area of ​​about 68 square kilometers, equivalent to 86% of the total area of ​​the state, and the city of Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates is an island area of ​​60 square kilometers.