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UAE is a rapidly diversifying society that has successfully integrated its core Islamic values into its ambitious economic agenda. The country's impressive economic performance sent the gross domestic product (GDP) rising to 29.32% in 2006 at current prices, reaching about $168.5 billion. This economic prosperity, coupled with a liberal business and social environment, ensures that people from nearly every country in the world will continue to come here to live, work and play.

UAE lies on the south-eastern tip of the Arabian Peninsula, bordered by Saudi Arabia to the south and west and the Sultanate of Oman to the southeast, while Qatar lies to the northwest. The country's total land area is about 83,600 square kilometres, where over 80% is occupied by the emirate of Abu Dhabi. UAE's population of 4.43 million as of 2006 comprises roughly 20 percent Emirati nationals with the rest accounted for mostly by Asian, African and European nationals. The emirates of Abu Dhabi and Dubai comprise over two-thirds (67%) of the country's total population. The population ratio is also significantly skewed towards the urban zones, which host 82% of the country's residents.

CLIMATE: The weather in Abu Dhabi is mildest in the months of December (average 20.3° C, with a maximum of 27° C and a minimum of 15.2° C) through March (average 22° C, max. 29° C and min. 16.5° C). January is the coolest month of the year, with an average temperature of 18.4° C (max. 24.6° C and min. 13.4° C). The thermometer starts to climb in April, rising to 26.4° C (max. 34.5° C and min. 19.5° C), and continues to climb steadily to record the emirate's hottest month in August at an average temperature of 34.9° C. The temperature begins to cool down in September (average 32.5° C) with temperatures in November dropping considerably to 24.4° C (max. 31° C and min. 18.5° C).

Meanwhile, January is the wettest month of the year, with minimum monthly rainfall of 22mm, followed by the month of March, which registers an average of 17.7mm of rainfall. The months of May through October see very little rainfall, if any.

GEOGRAPHY: Abu Dhabi's geographical coordinates are 24° 28' 0" North, 54° 22' 0" East. It is the largest of seven emirates comprising the UAE, occupying more than 80% of the country's total land mass and featuring a coastline that stretches over 700 kilometres.

Nearly 200 islands fall under the Abu Dhabi territory including Das, located 170 kilometres northwest of Abu Dhabi city, and Mumbraz and Bani Yas, which are located approximately 180 kilometres west of the capital.

COUNTRY SIZE: Abu Dhabi's land surface measures 67,340 square kilometres, which is equivalent to about 80% of the UAE's total land area. Only 30 percent of the emirate is inhabited, with the remaining vast expanses covered mainly by desert and arid land – constituting about 93% of the total land area. Land cultivation and irrigation for agriculture and forestation over the past decade has increased the size of "green" areas in the emirate to about five percent of the total land area, including parks and roadside plantations. About 1.2 percent of total land area is now used for agriculture. A small part of the land area is covered by mountains, containing several caves. The coastal area contains pockets of wetland and mangrove colonies. Abu Dhabi also has dozens of islands, mostly small and uninhabited, some of which have been designated as sanctuaries for wildlife.

POPULATION: Population in the Abu Dhabi emirate, inclusive of Al Ain, the Western region and the Islands, stood at 1,463,491 as of end 2006, comprising one third of UAE's total population. Population grew by a compounded average of 4.57% annually between 2001 and 2006, and a similar growth is expected until 2010, when the emirate's population is forecasted to reach over 1.75 million.

Presently urban residents comprise 68.5% of Abu Dhabi's total population, and annual growth in the number of urban dwellers from 2001 and 2006 – at 4.93% - has been slightly higher than the emirate's average.

In addition to the locals, the population figures include many expatriate residents that live and work in the emirate. Across the UAE, Emirati nationals comprise roughly 20% of total population, while expatriate workers' nationalities include Asians, Africans, Europeans as well as North and Latin Americans.

Men outnumber women with a ratio of 2.03 men for every woman, which is slightly lower than the national

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