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In Dubai, organizers successfully pulled off a fireworks display so epic that it set a new world record: an estimated 500,000 pyrotechnics were set off from 400 different locations along 60 miles of coastline at midnight. The blazing event was attended by thousands of people as well as being live-streamed on YouTube and Dubai Medias website. Viewers enjoyed a six-minute display that lit up various Dubai landmarks — including the Palm Jumeirah, a man-made island in the shape of a palm tree, and The World, an archipelago of islands designed to create the shape of a global map. The spectacles final salvo of fireworks created an artificial sunrise along the seafront, with the highest fireworks reaching more than one kilometer in height, reads a description from Guinness World Records, whose adjudicators confirmed the world record. Dubais attempt [had] enough fireworks launched within the first minute of the display alone to surpass the previous record. That earlier benchmark, set by Kuwait in 2011, saw a relatively pithy 77,000 fireworks light up the sky.