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Dubai

Dubai

About Dubai

Dubai is the most populous city in the United Arab Emirates and the capital of the Emirate of Dubai. It is on a creek on the southeastern coast of the Persian Gulf. As of 2025, its population stands at 4 million, 92% of whom are expatriates. The wider urban area includes Sharjah and has a population of 5 million people as of 2023, while the Dubai–Sharjah–Ajman metropolitan area has a population of 6 million people.

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At the World's Fair in Dubai each country made its own building shaped with Uzbekistani or Azerbaijani design, and now they are turning the whole place into flats.

from No Such Thing As Rivets On A Tombstone · read transcript

More facts about Dubai

  1. Greenland exports ice to Dubai, for the ice cubes in their cocktails.

    No Such Thing As Gutter Ice · listen

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Coordinates: 25.2047, 55.2708

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