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Abu Dhabi First settled in 1761 by tribesmen who found fresh water there, the name Abu Dhabi literally means 'place of the gazelle'. Today Abu Dhabi is the capital of the UAE. It has changed a lot in the last decades. It is a rather cosmopolitan city, with its bold urban architecture and lush gardens. It is also the seat of government for the Emirates.It is the headquarter for the president of the state, the cabinet, and most of the ministries, the Federal institutions, foreign embassies, Broadcast TV, Zayed Port, Abu Dhabi Airport and most of the oil companies, establishments and commercial markets. The Abu Dhabi Corniche, with its public parks and fountains, is a remarkable landscape of the city, The east part of th e Corniche has recently been demolished to make way, via more massive land reclamation, for a new Corniche road to ease the traffic congestion and provide more lush gardens along a new lagoon like waterfront inside the artificial Lulu Island which blocks the veiw of the sea by providing Abu Dhabi its own desert dunes of red sand. The city has grown so rapidly, there is no natural beachfront now, but nonetheless an impressive and attractive city with all modern amenities.
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