Palm Deira now bigger than Jumeirah

Nakheel says that it has now reclaimed over a quarter of the land required for Palm Deira, the biggest of its three Palm island projects in Dubai. It means the unfinished palm is now bigger than Palm Jumeirah, the most developed of the three. The developer said phase one of land reclamation is 80% completed, having used 300 million cubic metres of sand. Once completed, the island will be 42 million square metres, which it says it around half the size of Paris, France.