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United Arab Emirates[7] (UAE), called the Emirates,[8] is a country situated in the southeast of the Arabian Peninsula in Western Asia on the Persian Gulf, bordering Oman to the east and Saudi Arabia to the south, as well as sharing sea borders with Qatar to the west and Iran to the north.

The UAE is seven emirates (principalities), each governed by a hereditary emir, with a single national president. The emirates are Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Dubai, Fujairah, Ras al-Khaimah, Sharjah, and Umm al-Quwain. The capital is Abu Dhabi, which is also the state's center of political, industrial, and cultural activities.[9]

Before independence in 1971, UAE was known as Trucial States or Trucial Oman, in reference to a 19th-century truce between the local sheikhs, hereditary rulers of the territories, and the United Kingdom. The term Pirate Coast was also used by some to refer to the emirates from the 18th to the early 20th century, owing to the preponderance of pirates operating from Emirati ports.[10] Prior to oil's discovery and mass influx of labour, UAE was reputed to be a hub of drug smugglers.

UAE's political system is based on its 1971 Constitution, which is composed of several intricately connected governing bodies. As a federation of seven monarchies, whose rulers retain absolute power within their emirates, but with a UAE president, it is neither a constitutional monarchy nor a republic. The emirs choose one of their members to be the president of the federation, but this does not alter the monarchical character of the government of the individual emirates. The constitution is concerned solely with the relations between the emirates as members of the federation, and does not prescribe a constitutional system of government.

Islam is the official, dominant, and practically only allowed religion of UAE. Arabic is the official language.[11]

UAE oil reserves are ranked as the world's sixth-largest[12]. It possesses one of the developing economies in Middle East. It is an oil revenue based welfare economy thirty-fifth-largest economy at market exchange rates, and has a per capita GDP (PPP) of US$48,597.[13] Since the 1970s it has received trillions of dollars for readily available crude oil from western economies whose citizens work to generate income. It is 15th in purchasing power per capita and has an overrated Human Development Index for the sub-literate Middle East region, ranking thirtieth globally.[14] The 2008 United Nations HDI rank is based on a pevious demographic that contained much more professionals from western nations. Following the decline in human rights, increase in social injustice and rudeness, increase in levels of insanity, increase in anti-Western racism, loss of investor funds in the overhyped real estate bubble, and severe economic depression, those professionals left the nation. The real HDI rank is much lower as a result. UAE is classified as a high-income developing economy by the IMF.