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The Persian Gulf borders the western coast of the emirate. Dubai is positioned at 25.2697°N 55.3095°E and covers an area of 1,588 sq mi (4,110 km 2 ), which represents a significant expansion beyond its initial 1,500 sq mi (3,900 km 2) designation due to land reclamation from the sea. [citation needed] Dubai lies directly within the Arabian ...
Port Jebel Ali is the world's largest human-made harbour, the biggest port in the Middle East, [256] and the 7th-busiest port in the world. [154] One of the more traditional methods of getting across Bur Dubai to Deira is by abras , small boats that ferry passengers across the Dubai Creek , between abra stations in Bastakiya and Baniyas Road ...
Middle East map of Köppen climate classification. The Middle East (term originally coined in English [see § Terminology][ note 1]) is a geopolitical region encompassing the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, and Iraq. The term came into widespread usage as a replacement of the term Near East (as opposed to the Far East ...
Dubai is the top tourism destination in the Middle East. [179] According to the annual MasterCard Global Destination Cities Index, Dubai is the fifth most popular tourism destination in the world. [237] Dubai holds up to 66% share of the UAE's tourism economy, with Abu Dhabi having 16% and Sharjah 10%. Dubai welcomed 10 million tourists in 2013.
The World Islands ( Arabic: جزر العالم; Juzur al-Ālam) are an archipelago of small artificial islands constructed in the shape of a world map, located in the waters of the Persian Gulf, off the coast of Dubai, United Arab Emirates. [ 1] The World Islands are composed mainly of sand dredged from Dubai's shallow coastal waters and are ...
The United Arab Emirates is situated in the Middle East and West Asia, bordering the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf, between Oman and Saudi Arabia; it is at a strategic location along the northern approaches to the Strait of Hormuz, a vital transit point for world crude oil. [ 2] The UAE lies between 22°50′ and 26° north latitude and ...
The Middle East–North Africa region comprises 20 countries and territories with an estimated Muslim population of 315 million or about 23% of the world's Muslim population. [47] The term "MENA" is often defined in part in relation to majority-Muslim countries located in the region, although several nations in the region are not Muslim ...
UTC+4. ISO 3166 code. AE-DU. Religion. Islam (the official state religion of the UAE) The Emirate of Dubai ( Arabic: إمارة دبيّ, romanized : ʾImārat Dubayy) is one of the seven emirates of the United Arab Emirates. [ 5] It is the most populous emirate of the UAE. The capital of the emirate is the eponymous city, Dubai .