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Dubai is different in several respects from the other emirates. Although small in land size—about 4 percent of the UAE with 3,885 square kilometers—it has roughly one third of the population. The capital, Dubai city, is located on a deepwater creek that divides the old city, Bur Dubai, from the northern, more modern section of Dera. Dubai’s inland town of Hatta is a tourist haven roughly 100 km southeast of Dubai city on the road to Fujaira and Oman.
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© 2007 Andrea B. Rugh
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Rugh, A.B. (2007). The Maktums (Al Bu Falasa) and the Development of Dubai. In: The Political Culture of Leadership in the United Arab Emirates. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230603493_6
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