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Fujairah Emirate, the seventh in the union of U.A.E, is known as the bride of the Emirates, located to the East Coast of the Gulf of Oman. Al Fujairah was named after a small stream in the Emirate. It is characterized by its mountains that have different colors, fertile valleys full of natural water springs and coastal belt with its clean golden sands extending to more than 90 kilometers. |
The physical features of the emirate are characterized by the jagged Hajar Mountains, which border the fertile coastal plain where most of the settlement has taken place.
A visit to Fujairah is a discovery of a completely new world, different in its nature from the other Emirates. The visitor will see a chain of lofty mountains with different colors, green valleys and gulfs with clean waters. The Hajar mountain range that divides the UAE in two, from Ras Al Khaimah to Al Ain has kept Fujairah separated from the rest of the country.
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The historic town of Dibba al-Fujairah, at the northern end of the emirate, is an important centre for both agriculture and fishing, while the village of Bidiya has a unique four-domed mosque that is the oldest in the country. |
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The Fujairah port is an important port for container liners and for the world's largest livestock shipping companies, which have set up their main holding station for sheep and cattle for the entire Arabian Peninsula here. The port has been built and seems to be attracting an increasing amount of business from ships, which prefer to unload here rather than sail into the Gulf. The new airport has further improved the capacity for cargo traffic.
