Short answers, pulled from the story.
Abu Dhabi means "Father of Gazelle," from the Arabic "Abu" for father and "Dhabi" for gazelle. A popular story holds that a hunting party in 1761 was pursuing a gazelle when it found fresh water near the coast, giving the settlement its name.
Abu Dhabi joined with five other emirates to form the United Arab Emirates on the 2nd of December 1971. The union established a federal government and appointed Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan as the first President of the UAE.
The Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, headquartered in the city, is estimated to manage approximately one trillion US dollars in assets. That makes it the world's third-largest sovereign wealth fund, after Norway's Government Pension Fund Global and China's CIC.
Oil was discovered offshore in the Umm Shaif field in 1958, using the marine drilling platform ADMA Enterprise, at a depth of about 8755 feet. An onshore discovery followed in 1959 at the Murban No.3 well.
The Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque is large enough to hold approximately 41,000 people. Construction began on the 5th of November 1996, involved more than 3,000 workers and 38 contracting companies, and the internal prayer halls opened in December 2007.
In 2023, Abu Dhabi's urban area had an estimated population of 2.5 million, out of 3.8 million in the wider emirate. Around 80 percent of the population are expatriates.
Abu Dhabi accounts for about two-thirds of the roughly 503 billion dollar UAE economy. The emirate owns 95 percent of the country's oil and 92 percent of its gas, and holds 9 percent of the world's proven oil reserves.