Dubai.
It’s not just a city, it’s a dream, it’s a luxury life, it’s a life goal and so more for many people around the globe. You may know a lot about this city but still there are some facts about Dubai which will definitely blow your mind. Every city has some secrets and fascinating facts and so Dubai. This post will reveal some of those amazing information that many people crave to know. May be you will get some answers of the questions that hit you mind on daily basis. So, let’s move to those fascinating facts of Dubai…
#1. Pools of oil:
The amount of oil Dubai produces every single day is equal to 4.5 Olympic swimming pools. Just image 4.5 Olympic pools are combined together and all of them are filled with oil.
#2. Wasted space of gold:
Burj Al Arab is one of the most expensive and only 7 star hotel of the world. Around 1,790 square meters of 24-carat gold leafs was used to decorate the interior of this hotel. Most amazingly, 39% space of this hotel is empty (kind of wasted), which makes it much more special in terms of luxury.
#3. Refused by Disney land:
Dubai city was refused by Disney land to build an amusement park in the city. After this incident the authority of Dubai decided to build it’s own amusement park which will be twice bigger than the biggest Disney land of USA. This project may cost around 64.3 billion dollars (yah, you read it right) and this will be the biggest family entertainment park of the world.
#4. Can be seen from 95km away:
Burj Khalifa is the tallest building of this world right now. It’s so tall that you can see this building from 95km away which if pretty fascinating.
#5. Crime rate is almost 0%:
Dubai has a crime rate of almost 0% due to it’s very strict law and high moral based culture. You can literally wake around the city at night alone and feel safe.
#6. No income tax:
Dubai has 0% income tax and yah it’s 100% true. This is probably the biggest attraction why Dubai gets so much foreign investment and business start ups. So, if you want to be a personal income tax free rich man then Dubai must be the perfect destination for you.
#7. So much cranes:
Dubai is mostly popular for it’s real estate boom and for this reason almost 20% cranes of the whole world operates in Dubai alone. Just assume how much construction works are going on in this city every single day!
#8. Largest shopping mall:
The Dubai mall is the largest shopping center in the whole world that has around 1,200 stores including world’s almost all the top brands. Not only that, it has the largest indoor aquarium and indoor snow park as well.
#9. 18 months and 48 metro stations:
The whole construction of Dubai’s metro station was completed within 18 months which was started in 2009. The whole metro station includes 48 stations and yah all those stations was built within only 18 months.
#10. Highest growth rate:
Dubai is considered as one of the cities of highest population growth rate. Currently it has 2.25 million residence people and expecting to have around 3.4 million people within 2020 which is a growth rate of 7% per year.
#11. Largest artificial island:
Dubai has the largest man-made island in the world which is known as Palm Jumeirah. This island is around 5.4km in length and consists of most luxurious villas of the world as well as one of the top hotels named Atlantis.
#12. Tallest residential building:
Besides having Burj Khalifa and Burj Al Arab, Dubai has the tallest residential building in the world which is named Princess Tower. This building has 101 floors and measures around 414 meters tall.
#13. Home of gold:
Dubai is also known as the city of gold. It has the largest gold souk which consists of 300 retail shops only to trade golds and jewelries.
#14. Only few resident people:
Although Dubai city is home to many people around the world but it has very few local people in this city. Around 85% of whole population of Dubai consist of emigrants from other countries like India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Philippine, Sri Lanka and so more. Only rest of the 15% people actually belong to Dubai.
#15. Home of super cars:
Dubai is also the home of super and luxury cars. According to the latest statistic at least one super car is being sold every single day in this city of few million people.
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