The United Arab Emirates
is an oil-rich desert country situated in the south-east of the
Arabian
Pensinsula in
Southwest Asia, comprised of seven
emirates:
Abu
Dhabi,
Ajman,
Dubai,
Fujairah,
Ras al-Khaimah,
Sharjah
and
Umm al-Qaiwain. Before 1971, they were known as the Trucial
States, in reference of a nineteenth-century truce between the
British and some Arab
sheikhs.
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