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Abu Dhabi was a Geography and places good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There may be suggestions below for improving the article. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

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Date	Process	Result
December 29, 2012	Good article nominee	Not listed
August 10, 2016	Peer review	Reviewed

Current status: Former good article nominee

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Etymology

Abu Dhabi means Father of Gazelle in Arabic Bompanigcc (talk) 19:16, 2 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Population size

The population numbers in the article are wrong. The info box states a population of 3,789,860 but that's the population of the entire Abu Dhabi emirate (the article is about the city). The second paragraph then states "Abu Dhabi's urban area had an estimated population of 2.5 million,[6] out of 3.8 million in the emirate of Abu Dhabi." But that's not quite the correct number either because the 2.5 million refer to the region Abu Dhabi city lies in. There are three such regions in the Abu Dhabi emirate.

I found a source that only talks about the city which has it at an estimated 1,593,284 people. [1]. Not sure how accurate this number is, but it seems more appropriate than the 2.5 and 3.8 million used in the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 14.201.112.251 (talk) 05:23, 3 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]