United Arab Emirates map quiz
Explore the cities of the United Arab Emirates!
Quizzes in this pack
United Arab Emirates: cities, landmarks.
| Cities | 8 questions |
| Landmarks | 8 questions |
Sample questions
- Capital of the UAE, a modern city on an island in the Persian Gulf with the striking Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque, the Louvre Abu Dhabi museum, and vast oil wealth
- Answer: Abu Dhabi
- Most populous city in the UAE, a global hub of luxury tourism and commerce with the world's tallest building Burj Khalifa, artificial Palm Islands, and extravagant shopping malls
- Answer: Dubai
- Third-largest city and cultural capital of the UAE, named UNESCO Cultural Capital of the Arab World, known for its many museums, Islamic architecture, and a strict alcohol ban
- Answer: Sharjah
- Inland oasis city near the Omani border, known as the Garden City for its palm groves and greenery, home to a UNESCO World Heritage archaeological site and the country's oldest university
- Answer: Al Ain
- Capital of the smallest emirate, a compact coastal city between Sharjah and Umm Al Quwain with a historic fort-turned-museum and a growing dhow-building heritage industry
- Answer: Ajman
Learn more
Burj Khalifa
Dubai
Burj Khalifa in Dubai has been the tallest building in the world since it opened in 2010. It holds offices, flats and a hotel, and on a clear day the top can be seen about 95 km away.
- Opened
- 2010
- Height
- 828 m
- Did you know?
- It has more than 160 floors
- Rings a bell?
- Tom Cruise climbed its glass wall himself for Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, from 2011
Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque
Abu Dhabi
The Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi, finished in 2007, is the largest mosque in the United Arab Emirates, with 82 white domes and room for over 40,000 people. Its marble walls are inlaid with flowers of coloured stone, and inside lies one of the largest hand-knotted carpets in the world.
- Opened
- 2007
- Capacity
- Over 40,000 people
Palm Jumeirah
Dubai
Palm Jumeirah is an artificial island in Dubai shaped like a palm tree, with a trunk, 16 fronds and a crescent-shaped breakwater around it. It was built from about 2001 by spraying sand dredged from the sea floor, and it added many kilometres of beach to the city.
- How many
- 16 fronds
Jebel Jais
Ras Al Khaimah
Jebel Jais in Ras Al Khaimah is the highest mountain in the United Arab Emirates, about 1,934 metres at the top, which lies over the border in Oman. A winding road climbs it, and the Jais Flight, one of the longest zip lines in the world, runs down its slopes.
- Height
- About 1,934 m
Dubai Frame
Zabeel Park, Dubai
The Dubai Frame is a building shaped like a giant golden picture frame, 150 metres tall, in Zabeel Park, opened in 2018. From the glass-floored bridge at the top you see old Dubai on one side and the skyscrapers of new Dubai on the other.
- Height
- 150 m
- Opened
- 2018
Al Ain Oasis
Al Ain, Abu Dhabi
Al Ain Oasis has about 147,000 date palms of around 100 kinds, watered by falaj, ancient channels that carry water from underground springs. Shaded paths lead through the plantation in the middle of the city of Al Ain.
- How many
- About 147,000 date palms
How it works
Pick a quiz, then find, name or choose your answer on the 3D globe. A round has 10 questions by default, or more, up to the whole quiz. Each round picks what you need most: questions due again, new ones and the places you tend to mix up. In a short round, the questions you miss are asked once more at the end. Spaced repetition then brings them back on later days until you know them.
Every round also fills your mastery badges for the continent or country, the topic and the whole world: bronze at 50%, silver at 80% and gold at 100%.
