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The major part of the Dubai emirate consists of rolling sand dunes lapping the foothills of the arid Hajar mountains in the east

The international trade which flowed from Dubai?s cosmopolitan contracts was the basis of rapidly increasing prosperity. This gave the city an early start in development before the beginning of oil production in the late 1960s. Like the other towns along the coast, Dubai had been severely affected by the decline of the pearling industry,