United Arab Emirates

The United Arab Emirates (UAE; Arabic: دولة الإمارات العربية المتحدة‎ Dawlat al-Imārāt al-'Arabīyah al-Muttaḥidah)), sometimes simply called the Emirates' (Arabic: الإمارات‎ al-Imārāt), is a federal absolute monarchy sovereign state in Western Asia at the southeast end of the Arabian Peninsula on the Persian Gulf, bordering Oman to the east and Saudi Arabia to the south, as well as a sharing borders with Iran to the north. In 2013, the UAE's population was 13 million, of which 2.3 million are Emirati citizens and 10.7 million are expatriates.