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Dubai

Dubai is a cosmopolitan metropolis and global city on the . The city is one of the ten most popular tourist destinations in the world.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Dubai International Airport and Jumeirah.

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is the largest hub in the Middle East and the home base of Dubai's government-owned flag carrier Emirates and likewise government-owned low-cost airline FlyDubai.

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Within you'll find most of the tourist attractions that modern Dubai has to offer. Nonetheless the majority of its territory consists of residential and commercial areas.

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is the southern district of Dubai, south of and bordering the emirate of to the south.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Hatta and Deira.

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is a town that is an exclave of the Emirate of Dubai in the , located in the foothills of the Hajar Mountains. It is about an hour from Dubai.

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is the area of Dubai north of Dubai Creek and south of the border. It is the traditional commercial center of Dubai and the Creek and its dhows were the historic mode of transport.

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is in essence downtown Dubai. It stretches from the southern side of Dubai Creek to 2nd of December St or D 73 Rd, formerly Al Dhiyafa Rd. It has experienced the most development in the past decade. is to the south, and to the north, across the creek.

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Emirates Road is an area of suburban Dubai lying inland from the coast. It is home to a reconstructed heritage village, a theme park, and several sports facilities. The E 611 road, also known as Emirates Road, runs through the area.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Al Fahidi Historical Neighbourhood and Spice Souk.

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is a historic district in Dubai, .

Marketplace
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Dubai or the Old Souk is a traditional market in Dubai, . The is located in , in eastern Dubai, and is adjacent to the Dubai Gold Souk.

Mosque
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The is a in Dubai, , . It is located between the textile souk and the close to a small stream in the area.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Muteena and Al Mankhool.

Suburb
Al is a locality in Dubai, . It is located in . Al is bordered in the north by , in the south by , in the west by and in the east by .

Suburb
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is a locality in Dubai, . Located in western Dubai, in the area of , is largely a residential area.

Suburb
is a neighbourhood in Dubai, , located in . The locality is largely residential and is bordered by the localities of on the east, in the south and on the west.

Dubai

Latitude
25.2687° or 25° 16′ 7″ north
Longitude
55.3066° or 55° 18′ 24″ east
Population
3,400,000
Elevation
24 metres (79 feet)
IATA airport code
DXB
United Nations Location Code
AE DXB
Open location code
7HQQ7894+FJ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 13258099521
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
292223
Wiki­data ID
Q612
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Dubai” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Dubai”
  • Afrikaans: “Doebai”
  • Albanian: “Dubai”
  • Amharic: “ዱባይ”
  • Arabic: “إمارة دبي”
  • Arabic: “دبي”
  • Aragonese: “Dubai”
  • Armenian: “Դուբայ”
  • Arpitan: “Doubayi”
  • Assamese: “ডুবাই”
  • Asturian: “Dubái”
  • Avaric: “Дубай”
  • Azerbaijani: “Dubay”
  • Balinese: “Dubai”
  • Bashkir: “Дубай”
  • Basque: “Dubai”
  • Batak Mandailing: “Dubai”
  • Belarusian: “Дубай”
  • Bengali: “দুবাই শহর”
  • Bengali: “দুবাই”
  • Bhojpuri: “दुबइ”
  • Bhojpuri: “दुबई”
  • Bhojpuri: “दुबाई”
  • Bosnian: “Dubai”
  • Breton: “Dubai”
  • Bulgarian: “Дубай”
  • Burmese: “ဒူဘိုင်းမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Dubai”
  • Cebuano: “Dubai”
  • Central Bikol: “Dubai”
  • Central Kanuri: “Dubai”
  • Central Kurdish: “دوبەی”
  • Chechen: “Дубай”
  • Chinese: “Dubai”
  • Chinese: “杜拜”
  • Chinese: “迪拜”
  • Church Slavic: “Доубаи”
  • Chuvash: “Дубай”
  • Cornish: “Dubai”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Dubay”
  • Croatian: “Dubai”
  • Czech: “Dubaj”
  • Dagbani: “Dubai”
  • Danish: “Dubai”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Dubai”
  • Dotyali: “दुबई”
  • Dutch: “Dubai”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “دبى”
  • Esperanto: “Dubajo”
  • Esperanto: “Dubajurbo”
  • Estonian: “Dubai emiraat”
  • Estonian: “Dubai”
  • Extremaduran: “Dubai”
  • Extremaduran: “Dubái”
  • Faroese: “Dubai”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Dubai”
  • Finnish: “Dubai”
  • French: “Doubaï”
  • French: “Dubaï”
  • Galician: “Dubai”
  • Georgian: “დუბაი”
  • German: “Dubai-Stadt”
  • German: “Dubai”
  • German: “Gemeinde Dubai”
  • German: “Stadt Dubai”
  • Gilaki: “دبئي”
  • Gilaki: “دۊبی”
  • Greek: “Ντουμπάι”
  • Guarani: “Nduvái”
  • Gujarati: “દુબઇ”
  • Gujarati: “દુબઈ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Dubai”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Thu-pai”
  • Hausa: “Dubai (birni)”
  • Hausa: “Dubai”
  • Hawaiian: “Dubai”
  • Hebrew: “דובאי”
  • Hindi: “दुबई”
  • Hungarian: “Dubai”
  • Hungarian: “Dubaj”
  • Icelandic: “Dúbæ”
  • Icelandic: “Dúbaí”
  • Ido: “Dubai”
  • Iloko: “Dubai”
  • Indonesian: “Dubai”
  • Interlingue: “Dubai”
  • Irish: “Dubai”
  • Italian: “Dubai”
  • Japanese: “ドバイ”
  • Japanese: “ドバイ市”
  • Javanese: “Dubai”
  • Kabyle: “Dubay”
  • Kalaallisut: “Dubai”
  • Kannada: “ದುಬೈ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Dubai”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Dubay”
  • Kashmiri: “دُبایؠ”
  • Kashmiri: “دُبَے”
  • Kazakh: “Дубай”
  • Khmer: “ឌូបៃ”
  • Kikuyu: “Dubai”
  • Kirghiz: “Дубай”
  • Komering: “Dubai”
  • Korean: “두바이”
  • Kurdish: “Dubai”
  • Kurdish: “Dubey”
  • Lao: “ດູໄບ”
  • Latin: “Dubai”
  • Latvian: “Dubaija”
  • Latvian: “Dubaja”
  • Lezghian: “Дубай”
  • Ligurian: “Dubai”
  • Limburgan: “Dubai (stad)”
  • Limburgan: “Dubai”
  • Literary Chinese: “迪拜”
  • Lithuanian: “Dubaj”
  • Lithuanian: “Dubajus”
  • Lithuanian: “Dubayy”
  • Lombard: “Dubai”
  • Low German: “Doebai”
  • Low German: “Dubai”
  • Luxembourgish: “Dubai”
  • Macedonian: “Дубаи”
  • Macedonian: “Дубај”
  • Madurese: “Dubai”
  • Maithili: “दुबई”
  • Malagasy: “Dubai”
  • Malay: “Dubai”
  • Malay: “دبي”
  • Malayalam: “ദുബായ്”
  • Maltese: “Dubai”
  • Maltese: “Dubaj”
  • Manipuri: “ꯗꯨꯕꯥꯢ”
  • Manx: “Dubai”
  • Maori: “Tūpai”
  • Marathi: “दुबई”
  • Mazanderani: “دوبی”
  • Mesopotamian Arabic: “دبي”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Dubai”
  • Mingrelian: “დუბაი”
  • Moksha: “Дубай”
  • Mongolian: “Дубай хот”
  • Mongolian: “Дубай”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “دبي”
  • Nepali: “दुबई”
  • Northern Frisian: “Dubai-Stääd”
  • Northern Sami: “Dubai”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Dubai”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dubai”
  • Norwegian: “Dubai”
  • Novial: “Dubai”
  • Nyanja: “Dubai”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Dubai”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Dubai”
  • Ossetian: “Дубай”
  • Panjabi: “ਦੁਬਈ”
  • Papiamento: “Dubai”
  • Persian: “دبی”
  • Persian: “شهر دبی”
  • Piemontese: “Dubai”
  • Polish: “Dubaj”
  • Portuguese: “cidade de Dubai”
  • Portuguese: “Dubai (cidade)”
  • Portuguese: “Dubai”
  • Pushto: “دوبۍ”
  • Quechua: “Dubai”
  • Quechua: “Thupayi”
  • Romanian: “Dubai”
  • Russia Buriat: “Дубай”
  • Russian: “Дубаи”
  • Russian: “Дубай (город)”
  • Russian: “Дубай”
  • Rusyn: “Дубай”
  • Samogitian: “Dobajos”
  • Santali: “ᱫᱩᱵᱟᱭ”
  • Sardinian: “Dubai”
  • Scots: “Dubai”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Dubai”
  • Serbian: “Дубаи”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Dubai”
  • Sicilian: “Dubai”
  • Silesian: “Dubaj”
  • Sindhi: “دبئي”
  • Sinhala: “ඩුබායි”
  • Slovak: “Dubaj”
  • Slovenian: “Dubaj”
  • Somali: “Dubay”
  • South Azerbaijani: “دوبئی”
  • South Azerbaijani: “دوبی”
  • Spanish: “Dubai”
  • Spanish: “Dubái”
  • Swahili: “Dubai”
  • Swedish: “Dubai”
  • Swiss German: “Dubai”
  • Sylheti: “ꠒꠥꠛꠣꠁ ꠘꠉꠞ”
  • Sylheti: “ꠖꠥꠛꠣꠁ ꠘꠉꠞ”
  • Sylheti: “ꠖꠥꠛꠣꠁ”
  • Tachawit: “Dubay”
  • Tagalog: “Dubai”
  • Tajik: “Дубай (шаҳр)”
  • Tajik: “Дубай”
  • Talysh: “Dubaj šəhər”
  • Tamil: “துபாய்”
  • Tamil: “துபை”
  • Tatar: “Дөбәй”
  • Telugu: “దుబాయ్”
  • Thai: “ดูไบ”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Dubai”
  • Turkish: “Dubai”
  • Turkmen: “Dubaý”
  • Uighur: “دۇبائى”
  • Uighur: “دۇبەي”
  • Ukrainian: “Дубай”
  • Urdu: “دبئی”
  • Urdu: “دوبئی”
  • Uzbek: “Dubay”
  • Venetian: “Dubai”
  • Veps: “Dubai”
  • Vietnamese: “Dubai”
  • Vlax Romani: “Dubai”
  • Volapük: “Dubayy”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Dubai”
  • Welsh: “Dubai”
  • Western Frisian: “Dubai”
  • Western Frisian: “Dûbai”
  • Western Panjabi: “دبئی”
  • Western Panjabi: “دوبئی”
  • Wu Chinese: “迪拜”
  • Yakut: “Дубай”
  • Yiddish: “דוביי”
  • Yoruba: “Dubai”
  • Yue Chinese: “杜拜”
  • “Dobajos”
  • “Dubai”
  • “ma tomo Tapaja”
  • “दुबई”

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