Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Dubai is a sovereign state known as an emirate in the UAE. A city within the emirate is also named Dubai. The emirate is located south of the Persian Gulf on the Arabian Peninsula and has the largest population with the second-largest land territory by area of all the emirates, after Abu Dhabi. Dubai and Abu Dhabi are the only two emirates to have veto power over critical matters of national importance in the country's legislature. Dubai City is located on the emirate's northern coastline.
Source: Wikipedia- 07.04.2012

From Simone- Hexentrio.