''As-Silaʿ'' ( ar, ٱلـسِّـلَـع) is a city in the Western Region of the

Emirate of Abu Dhabi The Emirate of Abu Dhabi (, , or ; ar, إِمَارَةْ أَبُوظَبِي , ) is one of seven emirates that constitute the United Arab Emirates (UAE). It is by far the largest emirate, accounting for 87% of the nation's total land area o ...

, the

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. It is west of Abu Dhabi and west of

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, mainly consisting of Emirati town houses.

Description

The city has been undergoing construction over the past years. A new hospital, a school, a police station and shops have been built. The area of Sila stretches west to the border with

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and encompasses the border town of

Ghuwaifat Ghuwaifat ( ar, 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 i ...

and measures . The

census A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating information about the members of a given population. This term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common censuses in ...

of 2005 recorded a population of 7,900 in Sila.)

Archaeology

There are archaeological remains over 7,000 years old at Sila.SilaAbu Dhabi Islands Archaeological Survey
UAE.

References

Archaeological sites in the United Arab Emirates Populated places in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi Western Region, Abu Dhabi {{UnitedArabEmirates-geo-stub