Abu Dhabi
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Abu Dhabi (Arabic: أبو ظبي ʼAbū Ẓaby) is one of the emirates that make up the United Arab Emirates. It is the largest of the seven and was also the largest of the former Trucial States.
Abu Dhabi is also a city of the same name in the Emirate that is the capital of the country, in north central UAE. The city lies on a T-shaped island going into the Persian Gulf from the central western coast. An estimated 1,000,000 lived there in 2000, with about an 80% expatriate population. Al Ain is Abu Dhabi's second largest urban area with a population of 348,000 (2003 census estimate) and is located 150 kilometres inland.
