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The United Arab Emirates is a Middle Eastern country situated
in the southeast of the Arabian Peninsula in Southwest Asia on
the Persian Gulf, comprising seven emirates: Abu Dhabi, Ajman,
Dubai, Fujairah, Ras al-Khaimah, Sharjah, and Umm al-Quwain. Before
1971, they were known as the Trucial States or Trucial Oman, in
reference to a nineteenth-century truce between Britain and several
Arab Sheikhs. The name Pirate Coast has also been used in reference
to the area's emirates in the 18th to early 20th century. t borders
Oman and Saudi Arabia. The country is rich in oil and, although
it lacks other natural resources, it expects recent additional
economic diversification to draw more financial and banking firms.
The United Arab Emirates is a highly prosperous country after
it gained foreign investment funding the desert-and-coastal nation
in the 1970s. The country has a relatively high Human Development
Index, or HDI, for the Asian continent.
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