12 Facts About Dubai That Make It Stand Out From The Rest Of The World

By Editorial Staff in Facts On 31st January 2017

Dubai is located on the southeast coast of the Persian Gulf. This city is known for its luxury life and ultra-modern lifestyle with tourist attraction gaining places like world’s tallest building Burj Khalifa, Burj Al Arab stands on an artificial island and hot water beaches. This amazing city also has the biggest flower garden and the largest aquarium in the world. All these things seem amazing, but let’s take a look at some strange facts about Dubai.

#1 The locals constitute less than 20% of the population there.

Can you believe that locals contribute less than 20% of the total population in Dubai? Yes, it's true. Dubai is something of a melting pot of cultures and peoples from across the world, but can you believe all people live there with peace and extraordinarily low crime rate with violent crimes almost unheard. But this makes local feels like strangers in their own country.

#2 As opposed to 1 skyscraper in 1991, Dubai now has over 400.

In 1991 Dubai has only 1 skyscraper the World Trade Center of Dubai, but now Sheikh Zayed Road in Dubai is transformed into a Skyscraper Avenue, with both sides lined with tall buildings, one of which is Burj Khalifa world’s tallest building.

#3 In Dubai, if you lose, you gain: the government pays its citizens 2 grams of gold for every kg of body weight they lose!

What an amazing idea to encourage people to lose weight. Government awards its citizens 2g of gold for every single kg they lose. Children of ages 2-14 are given 2g of gold for every kg they lost. All this project costs $762340 for Dubai government, all this to encourage people to lose weight.

#4 In Dubai, you can get pizza delivered to your door by pushing a fridge magnet.

Get bored with giving the pizza order in the old style by dialing restaurant number don’t worry Dubai has a solution for it. In Dubai, pizza companies developed pizza shaped fridge magnet that has a direct link with restaurant via Bluetooth. All one has to do is tap it to be connected to the pizzeria online via Bluetooth, and place one’s order.

#5 Dubai is building an entertainment complex which will cost about 150,000 times the 2012 revenue of the Susan G. Komen Foundation.

Dubai land, as it will be dubbed, is a project of cost about the US $64.3 billion. To give you some perspective, the total revenue of the Susan G. Komen foundation in 2012 was $428,897.

#6 The Dubai police fleet includes a Lamborghini, a Ferrari, and a Bentley to allow them to catch speeding drivers who can outrun other cars.

Dubai metro police introduce Lamborghini and Ferrari in their fleet to catch speeding drivers to reduce road deaths and accidents.

#7 License plates in Dubai are a symbol of prestige and status.

In Dubai, everything is to symbolize your status even car number plates too. In Dubai license plates show the status of the owner, as a result, a large number of people going in for fancy number plates that signify something to them; the higher the number of digits, the cheaper the license plate.

#8 ATMs in Dubai dispense gold bars.

Dubai has an ATM that pays between 24-carat gold – believe it or not, it’s true. It can be in bars, coins, or wearable Jewelry. All that the customer needs to do is make their selection and pay via cash or credit card, and the machine – dubbed Gold to Go – spits out whatever it is that you want. Located in the Dubai Mall, the machine has become quite the sensation, so much so, that it needs to be replenished twice a week.

#9 About one-third of Dubai’s GDP comes from its airport, which contributes around $22 billion to its GDP.

Oil only constitutes 2% of Dubai’s GDP, contrary to popular belief the main revenue in Dubai comes from transportation, commerce, trading, financial services, retail, and tourism. It does not seem real that Dubai airport contributes 27% of GDP and 21% of total employment in Dubai. It employs over 90,000 people and supports over 400,000 jobs. Its total contribution to the economy is over US$26. 7 billion.

#10 Dubai is building a 50,000,000 square foot climate-controlled indoor city from scratch.

The Mall of the World will be a giant, 50 million sq ft urban center is a climate and temperature-controlled environment that has taken inspiration from London’s Oxford Street to New York’s Broadway, all of which will be indoors, covered by massive domes. This ambitious project will allow 20,000 hotel rooms, parking space for over 50,000 vehicles, and house the world’s largest shopping mall, and is being developed in a bid to increase the tourist thoroughfare in Dubai.

#11 There are thousands of luxury cars left abandoned in Dubai.

Can you believe that people left abandoned their luxury cars costs millions of dollars, but unfortunately this is happening in Dubai? The BBC reported that a Ferrari Enzo worth more than $1 million was found abandoned in a parking lot of a Dubai airport. One of the main reasons for all of this is speculated to be the Sharia law, that states that if you fall behind on your car payments, you go to prison, and these abandoned cars were possibly the property of citizens who preferred fleeing the country over staying back and counting prison bars.

#12 Although illegal, keeping exotic animals as pets is something of a fashion statement in Dubai.

Yes, some wild animals are really scary, not to mention incredibly dangerous, but do Dubai buyers care? Not really. In Dubai, buyers have always shown interest in owning wild pets such as tigers and cheetahs, all of which are, incidentally, illegal. Owing to the increased interest among people, unfortunately, these animals are easily available over the internet, after being smuggled from their natural habitats.

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