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United Arab Emirates - National Affairs (2010)

Amorah
22-12-2005, 01:55
الإمارات العربيّة المتّحد
Al-Imārāt al-‘Arabīyah al-Muttahidah
United Arab Emirates

Map/Flag
http://www.keralam.com/images/uae_flag.gif
http://www.autolease-uae.com/uae_map2.GIF

Timeline 2005-2010

2006: Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahayan makes the UAE even more western friendly as law and government begins to stray away from it's Islamic roots and more like a western democracy.

2008: Friendship established between Al Nahayan and Muhammed al-Quasi of the newly formed Republic of Arabia. In Dubai, the Burj Dubai skyscraper is completed in Dubai. At a little over 800 metres tall, it is the tallest man-made structure in the world.
(http://lubaszowa.tuchow.pl/galeria/albums/wiezowce/Burj_Dubai_ok_800_m_Dubaj_ZEA_zako_czenie_budowy_2008.jpg)

People
Population: 2,763,118

Ethnic Groups: Emirati 19%, other Arab and Iranian 23%, South Asian 50%, other expatriates (includes Westerners and East Asians) 8% (1982)
note: less than 20% are UAE citizens (1982)

Primary Religious Sects: Muslim 96% (Shi'a 16%), Christian, Hindu, and other 4%

Primary Languages: Arabic (Official), Persian, English, Hindi, Urdu

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