Population

I am from LA and for the guy that said Dubai is about the size of Los Angeles, he is dead wrong. Dubai is extremely tiny. It is about 1/100th of Los Angeles. For me to drive from the beginning to the end (zone-wise) from Los Angeles takes 4 hours (no traffic) and with traffic it could be 7 hours. LA is massive.

I do not believe there are 1.3 million people in Dubai. Dubai is probaly the size of Los Angeles and Los Angeles has 3 million people. Dubai has a lot of buildings for the little bit of people they have. There is probably 5 million people

90% of Dubai population is expatriate majority of whom are the contructions workers. Yes, almost all the "low income" workers are from the sub-continent, but there are significant/equal/more number of professionals from there aswell. It's amazing how a website can make such blatantly false statement without realising both it's implications and checking facts.

I believe it was the late king of Saudi Arabia, King Faisal, who once spoke in an interview of 78 rapes per hour that occur in the States. Kaylee perhaps needs to travel outside his / her domain to understand that the middle east should not be summed up in a nutshell of women being indoors, while men go scavenging for attacking females, as your Fox News tends to portray. Dubai currently is considered not only the most modern city in the middle east, but compared to the fashion of Milan and Paris, film industry of Europe, friendlier working environment than America, and higher tolerance for a cosmoplitan society than anywhere in the west. It is unfortunate that to date, people in the west -- at least those that believe anything their media feeds them and have not travelled outside their country -- have backward notions about the rest of the world. I suggest to Kaylee to please consider expanding his / her literature and mediums of knowledge.

No wonder sex trafficking and rapes occur on a daily basis. They need some women.

I do not believe that only 1.3 million people live in Dubai. How many tourists or visitors are here at any one time. I live in Miami and am very familiar with Los Angeles , Vegas, New York and travel patterns in other cities like Buenos Aires and London. There are millions of people here at least 4 -6 million. I believe that the population amounts just like the summer temps reported here are manipulated. It is never reported to be over 50C as it means construction must stop and many days its over and the report reads 49. It would be interesting to know the truth. I can definitely without a doubt tell you that there is at least 4 million people plus in this area as I write you. I am not stupid but it amazing how many people say that there is a million people here . I mean come on. Boston and San Francisco have around that amount and they are tiny blobs compared to this.

As you can see from the statistics Dubai is very much a male society. The distortion is caused by the huge number of construction workers (read Indian males) currently in Dubai.