Map of United Arab Emirates

United Arab Emirates is located in Asia. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 24.0° N, 54.0° E. It shares land borders with 2 countries — Oman and Saudi Arabia — and also has its own coastline. Within Asia, a continent of 49 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean, United Arab Emirates is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

United Arab Emirates shares land frontiers with the following 2 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

United Arab Emirates covers about 83,600 km² (32,278 sq mi). That makes it the 113th-largest country in the world by area and the 33rd-largest in Asia, larger by area than 16 of the continent’s 49 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 11,294,243, the 86th-largest in the world and the 28th-largest in Asia, accounting for about 0.2% of the continent’s people. With that land area, United Arab Emirates has an average population density of about 135 people per km². Among the 49 countries of Asia it stands 28th by population and 33rd by area.

The seat of government is Abu Dhabi, and the official currency is the United Arab Emirates dirham (AED, د.إ), and the main official language is Arabic. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC+04:00.

United Arab Emirates carries the ISO country codes AE and ARE, dials on the international calling code +971 and uses the .ae, امارات. internet domain.

United Arab Emirates shares its land borders with 2 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are Saudi Arabia (capital Riyadh, about 35,300,280 people) and Oman (capital Muscat, about 5,343,630 people).

By area, United Arab Emirates is larger than 0 of these neighbours and smaller than 2 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 24.0° N, 54.0° E and opens at zoom level 6, framing United Arab Emirates within Asia. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Abu Dhabi. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

United Arab Emirates lies about 2,664 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

United Arab Emirates keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+04:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +04:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the United Arab Emirates dirham (AED, د.إ).

The official language is Arabic, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +971 and websites commonly use the .ae, امارات. internet domain.

In short, United Arab Emirates is a coastal country in Asia, sharing land borders with 2 countries. Its capital is Abu Dhabi. United Arab Emirates has a population of about 11,294,243 and covers around 83,600 km² (32,278 sq mi), ranking it 86th in the world by population and 113th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for United Arab Emirates.

The flag of United Arab Emirates features a red vertical band on its hoist side that takes up about one-fourth the width of the field and three equal horizontal bands of green, white and black adjoining the vertical band.

The flag of United Arab Emirates is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.