Dubai is a city in
the United Arab Emirates, located within the emirate of the same name. The
emirate of Dubai is located on the southeast coast of the Persian Gulf on the
Arabian Peninsula and is one of the seven emirates that make up the country. It
has the largest population in the UAE and the second-largest land territory by
area after Abu Dhabi.
Dubai and Abu Dhabi, the national capital, are the only two
emirates to have veto power over critical matters of national importance in the
country's legislature. The city of Dubai is located on the emirate's northern
coastline and heads up the Dubai-Sharjah-Ajman metropolitan area. Dubai is
nowadays often misperceived as a country or city-state and, in some cases, the
UAE as a whole has been described as 'Dubai'.
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