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Boomtown on the Arabian Gulf

Within a very short time, Dubai developed from a sleepy harbour town into a modern world city. Higher, bigger, more luxurious, the sky seems to be the limit here. At 830 m, Burdsch Chalifa tops the list of the tallest buildings.

 

www.dubai.ae

Country

United Arab Emirates

Language

Arabic

altitude

5m

area

4,000 km²

population

1,816,000

currency

Dirham

time zone

UTC+4

dialling code

+971

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