The Man-Made Archipelago The World in Dubai is an image of the globe with all its continents and largest islands lying 4 kilometers from the coast. To create such a model of the Earth, it was required to pour about 300 plots of land in the waters of the Persian Gulf! (The continents, by the way, also consist of separate islets). Not surprisingly, the project turned out to be extremely expensive and was implemented quite a long time, from 2003 to 2008. By the end of the main work on the construction of the land of the archipelago, part of it was already sold out.

However, no one can settle in the hotel on the island of Mir. Unless the builders who build hotels, shopping and entertainment centers and everything else necessary for life, recreation and commerce. The opening of some such complexes is planned from 2014.

Sale of islands of the archipelago is also incomplete, although environmentalists even started to sound the alarm that the land is submerged. There is no reliable information about the results of the examination, but construction on the islands continues at full speed. For now tourists are admiring the World with water