Dubai, United Arab Emirates - February 2008; Dubai Creek is a saltwater streatc of water located in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. As part of the new Dubai canal, it extends through to the Persian Gulf. The creek separates the city from Deira to the north and Bur Dubai to the south. It is where trading posts were first established in Dubai in the 1900s, and remains a cosmopolitan, busy trading hub to this day. If you walk around, you will see peopled from all around the world, but particularly the Middle East, East Africa and South Asia.