united arab emirates

Noun
  1. A federation of seven Arab emirates on the eastern Arabian peninsula;
    Achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1971;
    Rich in oil reserves (synset 109066665)
    is an instance of: asian country, asian nation - any one of the nations occupying the Asian continent
    belongs to:
    • arab league - an international organization of independent Arab states formed in 1945 to promote cultural and economic and military and political and social cooperation
    • opec, organization of petroleum-exporting countries - an organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the production and sale of petroleum
    has:
    is a part of:
    • arabia, arabian peninsula - a peninsula between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf; strategically important for its oil resources
    • gulf states - the countries in southwestern Asia that border the Persian Gulf
    • asia - the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to Europe on the west to form Eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations

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