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Merge from Al Hayrah
editWikipedia listed Al Heera as Al Hayrah (in settlements of Sharjah), which is a miss-spelling of the place name as it is physically signed by the Municipality on the street and area signs. As usual, a transliteration from Arabic, it can be spelled a million ways (Also Al Hira, Al Hirah etc) but the municipality street signs should be something of a giveaway - and they're Al Heera.
In fact, you'll see from the sign on the police station in the photo, it's the Al Heera Police Station...
A number of false search results have been generated by bots and other sites depending on Wikipedia's original spelling of the place name as a settlement of Sharjah, resulting in the online promulgation of a virtual place name that has no grounding in the real world place name. A little like London being Loondun in Wikipedia.
It wouldn't matter at all, but I happen to live here and it has a small but nevertheless fascinating footnote to add to the history of the UAE.
Another source would be Google maps: https://www.google.ae/maps/place/Al+Heera+Suburb+-+Sharjah/@25.3832993,55.4255264,14z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x3e5f59ec4c776e89:0x2bbcc6b02ad5ad52?hl=en