World islands located in the United Arab Emirates, 4 km from the coastline of Dubai - an artificial archipelago, which consists of 300 islands. Today, World Islands are the most unusual point on the globe.

The initiator of the archipelago was made by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. In 1998, when Dubai built a world-famous hotel Burj Al Arab, the tourism industry in the country began to evolve rapidly. Due to the high intensity of development, over time, the entire 67-kilometer coastline was almost completely occupied. This led to the fact that for the further development of tourism in Dubai is no more space. And then the local authorities, it was decided to erect seven new artificial islands. But after a while it became clear that selling such huge areas of land is practically impossible. So we decided to split the large island in the huge number of small, each of them has found a buyer.

During the construction of the archipelago to use the latest Norwegian and Japanese technology. 300 artificial islands have been created in the form of the seven continents of the earth, which consequently gave the name of the archipelago The World, it is the world. And each customer the opportunity to buy their own England, France or some of the American states.

Artificial archipelago with a total area of ​​55 sq. km is the largest in the world. Dimensions of islands range from 14 to 83 sq. M. m. divided between a wide straits 50-100 m. From the mainland island connected by International sea and air. Drinking water and electricity are also coming from the mainland. To protect the local flora and fauna around the islands were placed colonies of coral reefs. From large waves and other climatic disasters Archipelago protects a specially built step breakwater.