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Dubai was one of the Geography and places good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
March 27, 2006	Good article nominee	Not listed
May 31, 2006	Good article nominee	Not listed
April 23, 2010	Good article nominee	Listed
April 26, 2010	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
May 7, 2010	Good article reassessment	Kept
November 25, 2016	Peer review	Reviewed
January 8, 2017	Good article reassessment	Delisted
Current status: Delisted good article

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Participate in the deletion discussion at the nomination page. —Community Tech bot (talk) 17:21, 24 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Area

What territory is the area figure describing in the infobox, and what territory is the listed populations for? I'm not sure this has ever been explicitly stated anywhere in the article. The infobox gives one figure; the Demographics section gives an area of 497.1 square miles...what is all of this, and how do we standardize it so we don't have different figures for different definitions clashing with one another? Criticalthinker (talk) 06:40, 18 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Etymology

Dubai comes from Arabic دبي (Dubayy), originally 'lizard' Fourniture 7 (talk) 00:14, 18 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]