Dubai
Dubai is a cosmopolitan metropolis and global city on the Arabian Peninsula. The city is one of the ten most popular tourist destinations in the world.Photo: junie alaan, CC BY 2.0.
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Popular Destinations
Dubai International Airport
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Dubai International Airport 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.
Jumeirah
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Within Jumeirah you'll find most of the tourist attractions that modern Dubai has to offer.
Jebel Ali
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Jebel Ali is the southern district of Dubai, south of Jumeirah and bordering the emirate of Abu Dhabi to the south.
Destinations
Deira
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Deira is the area of Dubai north of Dubai Creek and south of the Sharjah border.
Hatta
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Hatta is a town that is an exclave of the Emirate of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, located in the foothills of the Hajar Mountains.
Bur Dubai
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Bur Dubai 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.
Suburbs and Hatta
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Emirates Road is an area of suburban Dubai lying inland from the coast.
Photo: Chronus, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Deira Gold Souk
Marketplace
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Dubai Gold Souk or Gold Souk, is a traditional market in Dubai, UAE.
Spice Souk
Marketplace
Dubai Spice Souk or the Old Souk is a traditional market in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Deira Clocktower
Photo: Iwona Rege, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Deira Clocktower, originally referred to as the Dubai Clock Tower, is a roundabout in Deira, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Localities in the Area
Dubai
- Type: City with 3,400,000 residents
- Description: most populous city in the United Arab Emirates and the capital of the Emirate of Dubai
- Neighbors: Sharjah
- Categories: administrative division, big city, million city, global city, metropolis, largest city and locality
- Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
25.2687° or 25° 16' 7" northLongitude
55.3066° or 55° 18' 24" eastPopulation
3,400,000Elevation
24 metres (79 feet)IATA airport code
DXBUnited Nations Location Code
AE DXBOpen Location Code
7HQQ7894+FJOpenStreetMap ID
node 31248510OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
292223Wikidata ID
Q612Dubai Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Dubay
- Achinese: Dubai
- Afar: Dubai
- Afrikaans: Doebai
- Akan: Dubai
- Albanian: Dubai
- Amharic: ዱባይ
- Arabic: Dubai
- Arabic: دبي
- Arabic: دبيّ
- Aragonese: Dubai
- Armenian: Դուբայ
- Armenian: Դուբայի Էմիրություն
- Arpitan: Doubayi
- Assamese: ডুবাই
- Asturian: Dubái
- Avaric: Дубай
- Azerbaijani: Dubay
- Bashkir: Дубай
- Basque: Dubai
- Belarusian: Дубай
- Belarusian: Эмірат Дубай
- Bengali: দুবাই
- Bengali: দুবাই শহর
- Bhojpuri: दुबइ
- Bhojpuri: दुबई
- Bhojpuri: दुबाई
- Bosnian: Dubai
- Breton: Dubai
- Bulgarian: Дубай
- Burmese: ဒူဘိုင်းမြို့
- Catalan: Dubai
- Cebuano: Dubai
- Central Bikol: 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
- English: Dubai (city)
- English: Dubai City
- English: Dubai city
- English: Dubayy
- Esperanto: Dubajo
- Esperanto: Dubajurbo
- Estonian: Dubai
- Estonian: Dubai emiraat
- Extremaduran: Dubai
- Faroese: Dubai
- Finnish: Dubai
- French: Doubaï
- French: Dubaï
- Galician: Dubai
- Georgian: დუბაი
- German: Dubai
- German: Dubai-Stadt
- Greek: Ντουμπάι
- Guarani: Nduvái
- Gujarati: દુબઇ
- Gujarati: દુબઈ
- Hakka Chinese: Thu-pai
- Hausa: Dubai (birni)
- Hausa: Dubai
- Hebrew: דובאי
- Hindi: दुबई
- Hungarian: Dubai
- Hungarian: Dubaj
- Icelandic: Dúbaí
- Icelandic: Dúbæ
- 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
- Kashmiri: دُبایؠ
- Kazakh: Дубай
- Khmer: ឌូបៃ
- Kikuyu: Dubai
- Kirghiz: Дубай
- Korean: 두바이
- Kurdish: Dubai
- Kurdish: Dubey
- Lao: Dubai
- Lao: ດູໄບ
- Latin: Dubai
- Latvian: Dubaija
- Latvian: Dubaja
- Lezghian: Дубай
- Ligurian: Dubai
- Limburgan: Dubai (stad)
- Literary Chinese: 迪拜
- Lithuanian: Dubajus
- Lombard: Dubai
- Low German: Doebai
- Low German: Dubai
- Luxembourgish: Dubai
- Macedonian: Дубаи
- Macedonian: Дубај
- Maithili: दुबई
- Malay: Dubai
- Malayalam: ദുബായ്
- Maltese: Dubai
- Maltese: Dubaj
- Manipuri: ꯗꯨꯕꯥꯢ
- Maori: Tūpai
- Marathi: दुबई
- Mazanderani: دوبی
- Min Nan Chinese: Dubai
- Mingrelian: დუბაი
- Mongolian: Дубай
- Mongolian: Дубай хот
- Mongolian: ꯗꯨꯕꯥꯢ
- Moroccan Arabic: دبي
- Nepali: दुबई
- Northern Frisian: Dubai-Stääd
- Northern Sami: Dubai
- Norwegian: Dubai
- Norwegian Bokmål: Dubai
- Norwegian Nynorsk: 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: Dubai
- Portuguese: Dubai (cidade)
- Portuguese: cidade de Dubai
- Pushto: دوبۍ
- 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
- Tachawit: Dubay
- Tagalog: Dubai
- Tajik: Дубай (шаҳр)
- Tajik: Дубай
- 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
- Dabei
- Dibai
- Dibay
- Fort Dabei
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Dubai. Photo: Jan Michael Pfeiffer, CC BY-SA 2.0.