UAE areas

Area and community autocomplete for the UAE — Dubai Marina, JLT, JVC and friends. Free with any key.

GET /v1/areas/ae/suggest?q= answers the question every UAE product rebuilds: "turn what the user typed into a real area name." Handles the names people actually use — jlt → Jumeirah Lake Towers, jvc → Jumeirah Village Circle, marina → Dubai Marina — across Dubai (comprehensive), Abu Dhabi and Sharjah (major areas).

curl -s "https://api.gopura.net/v1/areas/ae/suggest?q=jlt" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $GOPURA_API_KEY"

{
  "object": "list",
  "region": "ae",
  "data": [
    { "name": "Jumeirah Lake Towers", "emirate": "Dubai", "match": "alias", "matched_alias": "JLT" }
  ]
}

q (required): what the user typed, 1–100 chars. Matching is exact → alias → prefix → substring, diacritic- and case-insensitive.
limit: 1–25, default 10.
match tells you how it hit; matched_alias shows which nickname fired.

Free with any API key (your key's rate limits apply) — it's reference data, served in-memory in well under a millisecond. Community names are curated with enrichment from Dubai's open data programme (Law 26/2015); report gaps and we'll add them.