Abu Dhabi is the capital of and the second greatest habitation in the United Arab Emirates. Abu Dhabi lies on a T-shaped offshore island jutting into the Persian Gulf from the midpoint western coast. The habitation appropriate, making up environs of 67,340 km2 (26,000 sq mi), had assessed inhabitants of 860,000 in 2007. Abu Dhabi homes valued bureaus of the central government, and is the stool for the United Arab Emirates Government and the household for the Emarati Royal Family. Abu Dhabi has propagated to be a cosmopolitan metropolis. Its quick development and urbanisation, joined concurrently with the quite high midpoint wages of its inhabitants, has altered Abu Dhabi.

Abu Dhabi is the greatest of the seven emirates that comprise the United Arab Emirates and was in addition the greater of the first Trucial States. Abu Dhabi is in addition a habitation of the matching label in the Emirate that is the capital of the nation, in north midpoint UAE. The habitation lies on a T-shaped offshore island jutting into the Persian Gulf from the midpoint western coast. An assessed 1,000,000 inhabited there in 2000, with about an 80% expatriate population. Abu Dhabi habitation is found at 24.4667° N 54.3667° E. Al Ain is Abu Dhabi's second greatest inner-city environs with an inhabitants of more than 200,000 and found 150 kilometres inland.