Where is Dubai?

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This is the question most foreigners ask themselves before traveling to this amazing city. Well, so that you know Dubai is not even a city it is an emirate and it is part of the U.A.E. - United Arab Emirates a federation of 7 emirates including Abu-Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman, Ras-Al-Khaimah, Fujeirah, Umm-al-Quwein. Dubai is the second largest and Abu-Dhabi is officially the capital of the federation.

You can say Dubai is located in the Middle East, however that really depends on how you define the Middle East. As for me Dubai is part of the U.A.E. and the U.A.E. is part of G.C.C. (like commonwealth countries, super-rich Arabic countries formed their own version of commonwealth an called it G.C.C. - Gulf Cooperation Council).

See above picture: red highlighted region of the map is Dubai.