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A City Mayors survey ranked Dubai 44th among the world's best financial cities in 2007, [186] while another report by City Mayors indicated that Dubai was the world's 27th richest city in 2012, in terms of purchasing power parity (PPP). [187]
Federated state: Location: United Arab Emirates: Number: ... Dubai: 4,114 1,590 Fujairah ... Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...
Dubai Metro is the Arabian peninsula's first rapid transit system and was the world's longest driverless metro network until 2016. A 1,200 km (750 mi) country-wide railway is under construction which will connect all the major cities and ports. [269] The Dubai Metro is the first urban train network in the Arabian Peninsula. [270]
Dubai, the most populous city in the United Arab Emirates Map of the United Arab Emirates. The table below shows a list of every city in the UAE with a population of at least 10,000, listed in descending order.
Official English country name: The United Arab Emirates Historic endonym: Maganite (ancient); Trucial Coaster (medieval) Common endonym (s): United Arab Emirates, Trucial Coast, Emirates, Federation of the Trucial Coast, United Arab Emirates of the Trucial Coast, Imārāti Arabia, Imārātes or UAE
The dominant customary international law standard of statehood is the declarative theory of statehood, which was codified by the Montevideo Convention of 1933. The Convention defines the state as a person of international law if it "possess[es] the following qualifications: (a) a permanent population; (b) a defined territory; (c) government; and (d) a capacity to enter into relations with the ...
Currently in the world, there are two emirates that are independent states (Kuwait and Qatar), one state ruled by an unrecognised emirate (Afghanistan), and a state that consists of a federation of seven emirates (the United Arab Emirates).
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 ...