Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan · AEWhere is United Arab Emirates?
United Arab Emirates is grouped in the World Bank's Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan region. Its listed capital is Abu Dhabi. The profile's representative coordinates are 24.48° N, 54.37° E; they are orientation points, not geometric centroids or boundary claims.
How large is United Arab Emirates?
EqualAtlas calculates a consistent spherical area from the same Natural Earth boundary geometry used for the map. For United Arab Emirates, that mapped area is approximately 71,265 square kilometres, ranking #120 among 238 mapped country and territory profiles. It may differ slightly from figures published by national statistical offices because coastlines, inland water and territorial definitions vary by dataset.
People and place
United Arab Emirates had a World Bank population value of 11,513,149 in 2025. Using the displayed mapped area, that is about 161.6 people per square kilometre. Area and population answer different questions, so EqualAtlas keeps their reference methods visible rather than combining them into an unexplained ranking.
The latest imported life expectancy at birth value is 83.1 years for 2024, ranking #21 among 215 profiles with data. It is a period estimate based on prevailing mortality rates, not a prediction for an individual person.
Population and economic data: World Bank Open Data. Boundary geometry: Natural Earth via world-atlas. Data and methods are explained on the data sources page.
Countries and territories closest in mapped area
These are the three profiles whose mapped areas are nearest to United Arab Emirates under the same geometry and spherical calculation.
Sierra Leone
Georgia
Ireland