Dubai is known worldwide ... In the cartography section is a map of the Arabian Peninsula from 1662 by Dutch mapmaker Joan Blaeu, one of the first to show geographical features such as mountains ...

Dubai Creek - a natural seawater port - was widened to increase trade and the Dubai World Trade Centre was completed in 1979. More recently, Dubai has turned its attention to tourism. A network of ...

but in the world. Despite Dubai's built-up area having increased 170-fold since the sixties, the city's developers are showing no signs of slowing down. An ultra-thin skyscraper called The Muraba ...