Top 06 Things you Might Didn't know about Dubai

Dubai is a city and emirates in the United Arab Emirates known for luxury shopping , ultramodern architecture and a lively nightlife scene. Burj Khalifa an 830m tall tower dominate the skyscraper filled skyline. At its foot lies Dubai Fountain, with planes and lights arranged to music. On artificial islands just offshore simply seaward is Atlantis, The Palm, a hotel with water and marine-creature parks. Let’s talk about interesting facts about Dubai.

 

Amazing man made Palm Jumeriah island

 

Dubai is famous for its soaring skyline and that’s not the only feat engineering to capture the world’s imagination. Built from reclaimed island in a series of artificial archipelagos, Palm Jumeriah is shaped like a palm tree when viewed from above. This artificial islands located in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. The unique island is home to some of Dubai’s top luxury resorts, including Atlantis, The Palm. Five Palm Jumeirah hotel. The developer of palm of Palm Jumeriah was Nakheel, a real estate company now owned by the government of Dubai. According to information from NASA, Palm Jumeriah was also sinking a rate of fiver millimeters per year. Most interesting thing is this Jumeriah palm tree island can see from earth. This photograph of Palm Jumeriah taken by NASA commander Leroy Chiao from aboard the International Space Station in 2005.

 

Home to 24% of the world’s cranes

Dubai has more active tower cranes than any other city in the world. The actual count in Dubai. In Dubai They have 30,000 construction cranes, which are 25% of cranes worldwide are operating in Dubai.  

 

Dubai has been awarded more than 130 gunnies world records

       

In Dubai everything is bigger and better. From the world’s tallest building(830 m Burj Khalifa) to the world’s largest shopping mall by total area. Dubai is a city that loves to think of challenges and figure out ways to meet or surpass them. They have 130 Gunnies world records.

 

There are no rivers in UAE

  

  

Dubai has no natural river bodies or desert gardens; in any case, Dubai has a characteristic channel, Dubai Creek, which has been dug to make it profound enough for enormous vessels to go through. Dubai additionally has numerous canyons and waterholes, which spot the foundation of the Western Al Hajar mountains.

 

Abu Dhabi's Capital Gate building inclines more than the Leaning Tower of Pisa

 

Capital Gate, otherwise called the Leaning Tower of Abu Dhabi, is a high rise in Abu Dhabi that is more than 160 meters (520 ft) tall, 35 stories high, with north of 16,000 square meters (170,000 sq ft) of usable office space. Capital Gate is quite possibly of the tallest structure in the city and was intended to lean 18° west. The structure is claimed and was created by the Abu Dhabi National Exhibitions Company. The pinnacle is the point of convergence of Capital Center. This Abu Dhabi’s Gate building leans more than the leaning Tower of Pisa.

 

 

The Arabian Oryx is the national animal of the UAE

 

With long lance like horns, sharp and differentiating markings laid, the Arabian Oryx, is one of four types of impala that lives in unforgiving desert climate and is local to the Arabian Peninsula. This Arabian Oryx is national animal of Jordan, Oman, United Arabi Emirates, Bahrain, and Qatar. By 1972, there were no Arabian oryx left in the wild, however because of preservation and reproducing endeavors, by 1980 some of those in imprisonment were delivered once again into the wild and in 2011 the species went from 'jeopardized' to 'helpless'.