Salwa
Salwa is an area in Hawalli Governorate in Kuwait City, Kuwait, bordering Rumaithiya to the north, Bayan and Mishref to the west, Messila to the south and the Persian Gulf to the east.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Suburb with 40,900 residents
- Description: Area of Kuwait
- Also known as: “Salwa, Kuwait”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Embassy of the United States of America and New English School.
Embassy of the United States of America
Government office
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Embassy of the United States in Kuwait City is the diplomatic mission of the United States of America in Kuwait. Embassy of the United States of America is situated 3 km west of Salwa.
New English School
School
The New English School, founded in 1969 by Tareq Rajab, is a co-educational British curriculum, English medium, private school in Jabriya, Kuwait, which caters for children between the ages of 3½ and 19. New English School is situated 3½ km northwest of Salwa.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Salmiya and Jabriya.
Salmiya
Suburb
Photo: Steve & Jem Copley, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Salmiya is an area in Hawalli Governorate in Kuwait. 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. Salmiya is situated 4 km north of Salwa.
Jabriya
Suburb
Photo: Ahmednh, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Jabriya is in an area in Hawalli Governorate in Kuwait. It is a large, mainly residential area that borders Surra, Hawalli, Salmiya and Bayan. On 31 December 2007, Jabriya's population was estimated to be 66,056. Jabriya is situated 5 km northwest of Salwa.
Maidan Hawalli
Suburb
Maidan Hawally Is one of the blocks of Salmiya in Hawalli Governorate, Kuwait. The population of this block is 200,000. The district is also close to Hawally. The District is full of Mosques. Maidan Hawalli is situated 6 km northwest of Salwa.
Salwa
- Categories: areas of Kuwait and locality
- Location: Hawalli, Kuwait, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
29.29626° or 29° 17′ 47″ northLongitude
48.07809° or 48° 4′ 41″ eastPopulation
40,900Elevation
15 metres (49 feet)Open location code
7HXC73WH+G6OpenStreetMap ID
node 4603691890OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
387958Wikidata ID
Q1179881
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Salwa” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سلوى (الكويت)”
- Arabic: “سلوى”
- Arabic: “سَلْوَى”
- Cebuano: “Salwá”
- Mazanderani: “سلوی”
- Persian: “سلوی”
- Russian: “Сальва”
- Swedish: “Salwa”
- Urdu: “سلوی، کویت”
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