Ghuwaifat

Ghuwaifat ٱلْغُوَيْفَات (in Arabic)
Ghuwaifat Location of Ghuwaifat in the UAE
Coordinates: 24°04′38″N 51°45′47″E
Country	United Arab Emirates
Emirate	Abu Dhabi
Municipal region	Al Gharbia
Government
• Type	Absolute monarchy
• Emir	Mohammad bin Zayed Al Nahyan
• Ruler's Representative of the Western Region of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi	Hamdan bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan
Time zone	UTC+4 (UAE Standard Time)

Ghuwaifat (Arabic: ٱلْغُوَيْفَات) is a small town in the far west of the emirate of Abu Dhabi. The place forms a border crossing to Saudi Arabia on the transit road to Qatar.

Ghuwaifat belongs to the urban area of Sila, which extends in the west to the border with Saudi Arabia.[1]

An x-ray facility that transilluminates a complete truck at once was installed there a few years ago. Abu Dhabi Airport Duty Free also opened a small shop in 2004. In 2007, 2,900,000 people crossed the border at Ghuwaifat.[2]

References

1. "GIS at Western Region Municipality" (PDF). Town Planning Division, Western Region Municipality. p. 9. Archived from the original (PDF; 5,0 MB) on 2013-12-14.
2. Khaleej Times, 5. October 2008

See also

• Madinat Zayed