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Manama is a township in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), one of two exclaves of the emirate of Ajman (the other is Masfout). Its land area is mainly given over to agricultural usage. It is known to stamp collectors as a number of editions of colourful stamps were issued from there in the late 1960s.
As well as the city of Ajman, the emirate encompasses two landlocked exclaves, Manama and Masfout. Manama is located 73 kilometers to the capital's east, covering an area of 26 km 2. Manama is in the plains at the foothills of the Hajjar Mountains some 60 km east of Ajman city.
Masfout Fort, overlooking the town of Masfout, Ajman, UAE. Masfout was traditionally home to the Na'im tribe, who were originally in the main settled in Buraimi. [8] They found themselves under threat in 1905 when the Bedouin Bani Qitab built a fort at Wadi Hatta and started to harass caravans passing through the pass to the Omani Batina coast.
Tourist attractions in the emirate are growing rapidly. They include the Ajman Beach, Ajman Museum situated at Ajman Fort, the Red Fort and the museum in the inland enclave of Manama. City Centre Ajman, the Emirate’s biggest mall, is a big attraction as well for its unique architectural experience and variety of shops and confectionaries ...
Ajman International Airport (Arabic: مطار عجمان الدولي) is an upcoming airport which is currently a construction project in Ajman, the smallest emirate of the United Arab Emirates. [1] Ajman is surrounded on its landlocked north, south and eastern borders by Sharjah. The airport is being constructed in the eastern district of ...
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Dubai, the most populous city in the United Arab Emirates Map of the United Arab Emirates. The table below shows a list of every city in the UAE with a population of at least 10,000, listed in descending order. The capitals are shown in bold. The population numbers are of the cities, and not the emirates, often with the same name.
Although the current twin cities of Manama and Muharraq appear to have been founded simultaneously in the 1800s, [2] Muharraq took prominence due to its defensive location and was thus the capital of Bahrain until 1923. Manama became the mercantile capital and was the gateway to the main Bahrain Island. [3]