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Ras-Al- Khaimah
Ras al-Khaimah إمارة
رأس الخيمة
Ras Alkhaima
is one of the emirates
and it covers an
area of 656 square miles
(1700 km˛). Ras Al
Khaimah is in the
northern part of the
Persian Gulf.
The emirate is ruled by
Sheikh Saqr bin Mohammad
al-Qassimi. It is in the
northern part of the UAE
bordering Oman. The
emirate has a population
of about 250,000
inhabitants.
The city has a
population of 246,167 as
of 2009.[1] It is served
by the Ras Al Khaimah
International Airport in
Al Jazirah Al Hamra also has two main
sections, Old Ras Al
Khaimah and Nakheel, on
either side of the creek
which flows through Ras
Al Khaimah.
Population
Exact population figures
are difficult to come
by, but a government
census in 2005
calculated that the
total population of the
UAE was 4.3m. Many
suspect that the actual
figure is closer to 5m
due to the large numbers
of expatriate workers
residing in the UAE,
some of which may have
been unaccounted for in
the census. RAK is
estimated to have a
total population of
250,000. While UAE
citizens officially make
up less than 20% of the
population in the UAE,
this figure is higher in
RAK. Emiratis are
thought to make up at
least 50% of the
emirate’s population.
The official language of
the UAE is Arabic,
although English is
widely used in business
circles. A significant
portion of the
expatriate population
also speaks
Hindi,Urdu,Bengali,Persian
and other languages of
the subcontinent.
Economy
As the emirate will
never be a major oil
producer, RAK has
instead had to
concentrate on
developing its
industrial sector. It
opened the UAE's first
cement company in the
early 1970s and is now
the UAE's largest
producer of cement. In
the 1980s, the emirate
formed RAK Ceramics,
which has become the
world's largest ceramics
producer, and Julphar,
the Persian Gulf
region's first
pharmaceuticals company.
Education
Schools: A large number
of Government-run
schools--primary,
elementary and higher
secondary--are scattered
all over Ras Al Khaimah
with Arabic as their
main medium of
instruction. Among other
Arabic-medium schools
are those that are run
by private managements.
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