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Abu Dhabi

Abu Dhabi (literally "Father of Gazelle") is the largest of the seven emirates that compose the United Arab Emirates. It is also a city of the same name within the Emirate that is the capital of the country, in north-central UAE. The city lies on a T-shaped island jutting into the Persian Gulf from the central western coast. An estimated 1,000,000 people lived there in 2000, with about an 80% expatriate population. The Emirate has approximately 70% of the country's entire wealth. Al Ain is Abu Dhabi's second largest urban area with a population of 348,000 and is located 150 kilometers inland.