The not so mysterious Dubai and Abu Dhabi

Being the two most populous cities in United Arab Emirates (UAE), we hear about these booming cities in the media almost everyday.

With Dubai boosting its continuous effort to break new records, the most populated city in UAE now house the world’s tallest building, the world’s first seven star hotel, the world’s biggest shopping mall, the world’s largest manmade port. No wonder it is also calling itself world’s fastest growing world business hub. Furthermore, Dubai being in the free trade zone has attracted many Foreign investors and the its boomtown atmosphere has enticed more than 180 nationalities to come call Dubai home. As of 2003, 88% of Dubai’s population is made up of expatriate.

Abu Dhabi, the capital of UAE, though 2nd in population, the city is everything but lack-lustre of its sister city. In this cosmopolitan city we see bold urban architecture and lush gardens. It is also the seat of government for the Emirates. It is the headquarter for the president of the state, the cabinet, and most of the ministries, the Federal institutions, foreign embassies, Broadcast TV, Zayed Port, Abu Dhabi Airport and most of the oil companies(Abu Dhabi is more well endowed with oil then Dubai), establishments and commercial markets.