1/4th Of The World’s Cranes Are Located Here

Cranes stand beside new high rise buildings under construction in the King Abdullah financial district of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Monday, April 9, 2012. Saudi Arabia’s gross domestic product expanded 6.64 percent in the fourth quarter from a year ago, the kingdom’s statistics agency said. Photographer: Waseem Obaidi/Bloomberg

There is so much construction that goes on in the city of Dubai that one-fourth of the cranes in the world are located here, ever since the construction boom started in the city in 2006.