Know Sharjah in 40 seconds

Know your emirate in 40 seconds: Here are some amazing facts about the UAE's emirate of Sharjah

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00:00Know your emirate in 40 seconds It's known as the cultural capital of the

00:05UAE but here are some cool facts you probably didn't know about Sharjah.

00:09It's the only emirate that shares its borders with all the other six emirates.

00:13The first airport in the GCC region was built in Sharjah in 1932.

00:18Sharjah set up UAE's first school in 1907, first library in 1933 and first municipality

00:24in 1927.

00:26The first evidence of human life in the UAE was discovered on Jebel Faya in Sharjah.

00:31It dates back to around 85,000 BC.

00:34The Sharjah International Book Fair, which started in 1982, is the fourth largest book

00:38fair in the world.