Dubai is in Saudi Arabia.
Dubai ( [ duːˈbaɪ ] ; دبي , Gulf pronunciation : [ dʊˈbɑj ] ) is the largest and most populous city in the United Arab Emirates ( UAE ) . Saudi Arabia ( [ saʊ - ] ) , officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ( KSA ) , is an Arab sovereign state in Western Asia constituting the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula . The United Arab Emirates ( [ juːˌnaɪtᵻd_ˌærəb_ˈɛmɪrᵻts ] دولة الإمارات العربية المتحدة ) , sometimes simply called the Emirates or the UAE , is a federal absolute monarchy in Western Asia at the southeast end of the Arabian Peninsula on the Persian Gulf , bordering Oman to the east and Saudi Arabia to the south , as well as sharing maritime borders with Qatar to the west and Iran to the north .