Dubai Fireworks 2014: New Year's Eve Celebration Sets New Record (Video)

Dubai welcomed 2014 with a record-breaking fireworks display during its New Year's Eve celebration.

Dubai Fireworks 2014 (Photo courtesy of Dubai Downtown)

Guinness World Records confirmed Wednesday that Dubai easily broke the record for the world's largest fireworks display, which was set by Kuwait during its golden jubilee anniversary which set off 77,282 firework.

Dubai used over 500,000 fireworks during the 6-minute display on New Year's Eve, which was synchronized to Arabic pop music. Enough fireworks were launched to surpass the previous record within the first minute of the show alone.

Ten months in planning, the spectacle covered a distance of over 95 kilometers of the city’s seafront. Its final salvo of fireworks created an artificial 'sunrise' along the seafront, with the highest fireworks reaching more than one kilometer in height.

Check out the highlights of Dubai's fireworks display below: