The archipelago of "The World" Bashny.Net

Along the coast of the United Arab Emirates has another artificial archipelago, which consists of three hundred small islands and when viewed from above is very similar to all of us familiar map of the world.

The archipelago is located about four kilometers from the coast of Dubai. The basis of the islands of sand. In total, for the creation of the islands it took about 321 million cubic meters of sand and about 31 million tons of rock. The total size of the archipelago - six kilometers wide and more than nine kilometers long. To prevent damage, the archipelago is surrounded by a breakwater. The approximate distance between the islands - about one hundred meters. Most of them have names of existing states. The project has been frozen for more than two years.