Dubai Sets A World Record With The World's Largest Fireworks Display On New Year's Eve

It's another feather in Dubai's hat: The city has broken the record for the largest fireworks display of all time this New Year's Eve.

The pyrotechnic feat included more than 500,000 fireworks and took six minutes to complete. It started 20 seconds before midnight local time, and covered 61.6 miles of the city's waterfront, encompassing landmarks like the Palm Jumeirah, the World Islands, Burj Khalifa skyscraper and Burj Al Arab, the city's most luxurious hotel, according to Guinness World Records.

The New Year's 2014 display outshone the record set in 2012 to mark Kuwait's golden jubilee, in which more than 77,000 fireworks were launched.

The set was designed by famed U.S. fireworks firm Fireworks by Grucci, and used 100 computers to synchronize the display, according to GWR. It took more than 200 technicians to design the six-minute spectacle.