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Salmiya

Salmiya is an area in in . Salmiya is administratively divided into 12 blocks. The blocks located closer to the interior of the district tend to be mostly residential, while those located beside the Persian Gulf coastline have a great deal of commercial and up-scale residential real estate.
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  • Type: Suburb with 310,000 residents
  • Description: city in Hawalli Governorate, Kuwait
  • Also known as: “Ad Dumna”, “Ad Dumnah”, “Al Salmiya”, “As Salimiyah”, “As-Sālimiyah”, “Dimnah”, “Salimiyah”, “Salmiyah”, and “Salmiyyeh”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Thamir Stadium and New English School.

Stadium
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is a multi-purpose stadium in Al Salmiya, . It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Al Salmiya Club. The stadium holds 16,105 people.

School
The , founded in 1969 by Tareq Rajab, is a co-educational British curriculum, English medium, in , Kuwait, which caters for children between the ages of 3½ and 19.

Restaurant
Johnny Carino's is a -based chain of Italian food casual dining restaurants. Headquartered in , the concept is owned by Fired Up, Inc, which was founded in 1997 by partners and former Brinker International executives Norman Abdallah and Creed Ford III. is situated 4½ km northwest of Salmiya.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hawalli and Jabriya.

Hawally is the capital of the Governorate, a district in the State of , about 6 km south of . Hawally is a large suburb and the commercial center for most computer-related goods in Kuwait.

Suburb
Photo: Ahmednh, CC BY-SA 2.5.
is in an area in in . It is a large, mainly residential area that borders , Hawalli, Salmiya and Bayan. On 31 December 2007, 's population was estimated to be 66,056. is situated 4 km southwest of Salmiya.

Suburb
is a residential area located in the in , . It is located west of and east of Qurtuba. It has six residential blocks and is considered home to about 35,366 persons. is situated 6 km west of Salmiya.

Salmiya

Latitude
29.3328° or 29° 19′ 58″ north
Longitude
48.0685° or 48° 4′ 7″ east
Population
310,000
Elevation
11 metres (36 feet)
United Nations Location Codes
KW SAL and KW SMY
Open location code
7HXC83M9+49
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4603691893
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
285704
Wiki­data ID
Q3505782
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Urdu—“Salmiya” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “السالمية”
  • Arabic: “اَلسَّالِمِيَّة”
  • Arabic: “السالميه”
  • Arabic: “سالمية”
  • Asturian: “Salmiya”
  • Cebuano: “As Sālimīyah”
  • Esperanto: “Salmija”
  • French: “Salmiya”
  • German: “Salmiya”
  • Hausa: “Salmiya”
  • Japanese: “サルミア”
  • Korean: “살미야”
  • Lithuanian: “Salmija”
  • Malayalam: “സാൽമിയ”
  • Mazanderani: “السالمیه”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Salmiya”
  • Norwegian: “Salmiya”
  • Persian: “السالمیه”
  • Persian: “سالمیه”
  • Polish: “As-Salimija”
  • Polish: “As-Salimijja”
  • Russian: “Сальмия”
  • Russian: “Эс-Салимия”
  • Swedish: “al-Salimiyya”
  • Swedish: “Al-Salimiyya”
  • Swedish: “as-Salimiyya”
  • Ukrainian: “Сальмія”
  • Urdu: “سالمیہ (شہر)”
  • Urdu: “سالمیہ”

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