UAE - Abu Dhabi - New suburb - a photo on Flickriver

New housing and a mosque from the plane photographed on our approach into Abu Dhabi airport.

I had initially thought these buildings were to house migrant workers who come from countries like Nepal to help with the building boom Abu Dhabi has been experiencing but now I'm less sure as they presumably wouldn't need cars (not that there are very many in the this shot).

This is one of a limited number of shots which were previously uploaded but are being 'bumped' as I'm now uploading a lot more shots from my trip.

Click here for more photos taken from window seats of planes : www.flickr.com/photos/darrellg/albums/72157651786524706

From Wikipedia : "Abu Dhabi (Arabic: أَبُو ظَبِي‎) is the capital and the second most populous city of the United Arab Emirates (the most populous being Dubai), and also capital of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, the largest of the UAE's seven emirates. Abu Dhabi city is situated on an island off the Persian Gulf from the central western coast, while the majority of the city and Emirate reside on the mainland connected to the rest of the country. As of 2019, Abu Dhabi's urban area has an estimated population of 1.45 million people, out of 2.9 million people in the emirate of Abu Dhabi, as of 2016.

Abu Dhabi houses local and federal government offices, is the seat of the United Arab Emirates Government, the Supreme Oil Council, home to the Abu Dhabi Emiri Family and the President of the UAE, who is from this family. Abu Dhabi's rapid development and urbanisation, coupled with the massive oil and gas reserves and production, relatively high average income of its population, has transformed the city into a large and advanced metropolis. Today the city is the country's centre of political and industrial activities, and a major cultural and commercial centre, due to its position as the capital. Abu Dhabi accounts for about two-thirds of the roughly $400-billion United Arab Emirates economy."

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Taken in: الامارات / أبوظبي / أبوظبي (show map)

Taken on: March 12, 2006

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