United Arab Emirates
Names and codes: GeoNames, CC BY 4.0 · Boundary: Natural Earth, public domain · Refresh date not recorded · Sources and licenses
Codes and identifiers
- ISO alpha-2
- AE
- ISO alpha-3
- ARE
- ISO numeric
- 784
- FIPS 10-4
- AE
- GeoNames ID
- 290557
Key facts
- Capital
- Abu Dhabi
- Area
- 82,880 km²
- Population
- 9,630,959
- Currency
- Dirham (AED)
- Calling code
- +971
- Top-level domain
- .ae
- Official languages
- ar-AE,fa,en,hi,ur
Continent
- Name
- Asia
- Code
- AS
- In this dataset
- 51 countries
Location
- Latitude
- 23.75
- Longitude
- 54.5
- Min latitude
- 22.620945943000052
- Min longitude
- 51.569346550000034
- Max latitude
- 26.074791972000085
- Max longitude
- 56.38363691500007
Boundary
The API call behind this page
Request
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
"https://geosearch.dev/v1/countries/AE?fields=iso_code,iso3_code,name,capital,population,area_sq_km,currency_code,continent_code"Response
{
"data": {
"area_sq_km": 82880,
"capital": "Abu Dhabi",
"continent_code": "AS",
"currency_code": "AED",
"iso3_code": "ARE",
"iso_code": "AE",
"name": "United Arab Emirates",
"population": 9630959
}
}Formatted for reading. The API returns the same JSON on one line.
Other endpoints for this country
/v1/countries/AE/regions/v1/cities?country=AE/v1/postal-codes?country=AE/v1/timezones?country=AE
Name in other languages
- Arabic
- الإمارات العربية المتحدة
- Chinese
- 阿拉伯联合酋长国
- English
- United Arab Emirates
- French
- Émirats Arabes Unis
- German
- Vereinigte Arabische Emirate
- Hindi
- संयुक्त अरब अमीरात
- Italian
- Emirati Arabi Uniti
- Japanese
- アラブ首長国連邦
- Korean
- 아랍에미리트 연합
- Portuguese
- Emirados Árabes Unidos
- Russian
- ОАЭ
- Spanish
- Emiratos Árabes Unidos
- Total language variants
- 211
The API returns any of them with ?lang=.
Time zones
| IANA ID | UTC offset | DST offset |
|---|---|---|
| Asia/Dubai | UTC+04:00 | UTC+04:00 |
Postal code format
- Format
- ##### #####
- Pattern
^\d{5}-\d{5}$
First-level administrative regions
- Abu Dhabi
- Dubai
- Emirate of Sharjah
- Emirate of Ajman
- Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah
- Emirate of Fujairah
- Umm al Qaywayn
7 of 7 shown, largest first
Largest cities
| City | Population |
|---|---|
| Dubai | 3,790,000 |
| Abu Dhabi | 1,807,000 |
| Sharjah | 1,800,000 |
| Al Ain City | 846,747 |
| Ajman | 490,035 |
| Dayrah | 400,000 |
| Ras Al Khaimah | 351,943 |
| Musaffah | 243,341 |
| Jebel Ali | 210,000 |
| Business Bay | 191,000 |
Coverage in this dataset
- Cities
- 2,406
- First-level regions
- 7
- Postal codes
- 178,171
- Name languages
- 211
- Boundary polygon
- Yes
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