Mangrove Village
A gated waterfront community of four- and five-bedroom villas on the Abu Dhabi mainland, in the district once known as Officers City.
Abu Dhabi Gate City is a waterfront residential community on the mainland, near Mussafah Bridge. The district was known as Officers City until the Municipality of Abu Dhabi City gave it its present name, a reference to its place at one of the key entrances to the island. Mangrove Village is its gated waterfront development, with villas of four and five bedrooms, and the setting is residential and quiet, a neighbourhood by the water rather than a district of towers.
The Mussafah Bridge, a six-lane crossing of about 480 metres, was built between 1976 and 1978 and links the island of Abu Dhabi with the mainland. The airport, Zayed International Airport since 9 February 2024, takes its name from Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the founding father of the UAE.
Mussafah, the district beside the bridge, is an industrial area with its own port, and it has a residential quarter, Musaffah Shabiya, with apartments and villas. Mohamed bin Zayed City is next to it.
The Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque, inaugurated in December 2007, stands in Abu Dhabi itself. The Louvre Abu Dhabi, which opened in 2017 on Saadiyat Island, and the Zayed National Museum, which opened on 3 December 2025 in the same cultural district, are among the capital's cultural landmarks.
Yas Island, in the same emirate, offers Ferrari World, which opened in 2010, Warner Bros. World Abu Dhabi, which opened in July 2018, SeaWorld Abu Dhabi, opened in May 2023, and Etihad Arena, opened in 2021, with Yas Mall for shopping and restaurants. The Yas Marina Circuit hosts the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
For golf there is Yas Links, an 18-hole championship course designed by Kyle Phillips with a separate nine-hole par 3 course, and the Abu Dhabi Golf Club, a 27-hole course designed by Peter Harradine, which opened in 2000.
The Cambridge High School, a British curriculum school founded in 1988 and run by GEMS Education, is in Shabiya, Abu Dhabi. Emirates Future International Academy, a co-educational school, is in Mussafah. Families compare schools by curriculum and by the journey each day, and your advisor can prepare a shortlist for the area.
Our residence here is a fully furnished five-bedroom villa with a large garden, in Mangrove Village.
Each residence offered here is handled personally by your advisor, with private viewings by appointment.
Photographs: Sa7er90 (CC BY-SA 4.0), Rifat Yakan (CC BY-SA 4.0).
