🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates 7 administrative divisions
7 first-level administrative divisions — states, provinces, regions or counties, depending on the country — and 409 cities and towns, each with latitude and longitude. Public domain, free to download, no API key.
The country
- ISO 3166-1
- AE · ARE · 784
- Capital
- Abu Dhabi
- Continent
- Asia
- Currency
- AED — United Arab Emirates dirham
- Calling code
- +971
- Internet domain
- .ae
- Divisions
- 7
- Cities and towns
- 409
Divisions
The 7 divisions of United Arab Emirates
7 of them carry an ISO 3166-2 code. Counts are cities and towns inside each division.
| Division | ISO 3166-2 | Cities and towns | Population |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ras Al Khaimah | AE-RK | 166 | 241,000 |
| Emirate of Dubai | AE-DU | 65 | 3,825,000 |
| Emirate of Fujairah | AE-FU | 61 | 256,256 |
| Emirate of Sharjah | AE-SH | 47 | 1,405,843 |
| Emirate of Abu Dhabi | AE-AZ | 33 | 2,908,173 |
| Emirate of Ajman | AE-AJ | 11 | 504,836 |
| Emirate of Umm Al Quwain | AE-UQ | 11 | 73,000 |
A further 15 places could not be matched to a
division and are listed separately in the API as
"unassigned": true.
Get it
Both files, in one request each
# every division of United Arab Emirates
curl -s https://api.placedb.org/v1/regions/AE.json
# the cities and towns of one division (id from the file above)
curl -s https://api.placedb.org/v1/cities/AE/<id>.jsonNo key, no account, no rate limit. The endpoints · try it live.