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Kuwait

Kuwait is a monarchy situated at the Persian Gulf, nestled between and . Historically, Kuwait was a strategic trade port between Mesopotamia, India, and Persia. Like many of its neighbours, Kuwait is endowed with oil and gas wealth.
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is the capital of Kuwait. is a bustling metropolis of high-rise office buildings, luxury hotels, wide boulevards and well-tended parks and gardens.

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, also referred to as Al , is the capital of Al Governorate, Kuwait. It is home to the historic Kuwaiti Red Fort, the site of the 1920 Battle of .

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

Kuwait

  • Type: Country with 3,400,000 residents
  • Description: sovereign state in Western Asia
  • Also known as: “Al Kuwait”, “Al Kuwayt”, “Al Kuweit”, “Dawlat al Kuwayt”, “Dawlat al-Kuwait”, “Dowlat al Kuwait”, “KUW”, “kw”, “Shaikhdom of Kuwait”, “Sheikhdom of Kuwait”, “State of Kuwait”, and “دولة الكويت”
  • Languages: Arabic and English
  • Neighbors: , , and
  • Categories: sovereign state and locality
  • Location: ,
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Latitude of center
29.315° or 29° 18′ 54″ north
Longitude of center
47.69° or 47° 41′ 24″ east
Population
3,400,000
Area
17,820 km² (6,880 miles²)
Elevation
79 metres (259 feet)
Capital
Currency
Dinar (KWD)
Phone code
.kw
Internet domain
965
Open­Street­Map ID
node 424313936
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­country
Geo­Names ID
285570
Wiki­data ID
Q817
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Kuwait” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Кувеит Аҳәынҭқарра”
  • Abkhazian: “Кувеит”
  • Achinese: “Kuwait”
  • Adyghe: “Кувейт”
  • Afrikaans: “Koeweit”
  • Akan: “Kuwete”
  • Albanian: “Kuvajt”
  • Albanian: “Kuvajti”
  • Amharic: “ኩዌት”
  • Amharic: “ክዌት”
  • Amis: “Kuwait”
  • Angika: “कुवैत”
  • Arabic: “الكويت”
  • Arabic: “دَوْلَة اَلْكُوَيْت”
  • Aragonese: “Kuwait”
  • Armenian: “Քուվեյթ”
  • Arpitan: “Koveyit”
  • Arpitan: “Kovèyit”
  • Assamese: “কুৱেইট”
  • Asturian: “Kuwait”
  • Atayal: “Kuwait”
  • Avaric: “Кувайт”
  • Awadhi: “कुवेत”
  • Azerbaijani: “Küveyt”
  • Balinese: “Kuwait”
  • Bambara: “Kowɛti”
  • Bashkir: “Күвейт”
  • Basque: “Kuwait”
  • Bavarian: “Kuwait”
  • Belarusian: “Кувейт”
  • Belarusian: “Кувэйт”
  • Bengali: “কুয়েত”
  • Betawi: “Kuwét”
  • Bhojpuri: “कुवैत”
  • Bishnupriya: “কুয়েত”
  • Bislama: “Kuwait”
  • Bosnian: “Kuvajt”
  • Breton: “Koweit”
  • Buginese: “Kuwaiq”
  • Buginese: “ᨀᨘᨓᨕᨗ”
  • Bulgarian: “Кувейт”
  • Burmese: “ကူဝိတ်”
  • Burmese: “ကူဝိတ်နိုင်ငံ”
  • Catalan: “Kuwait”
  • Cebuano: “Kuwait”
  • Central Bikol: “Kuwait”
  • Central Kanuri: “Kuwait”
  • Central Kurdish: “کووەیت”
  • Chavacano: “Kuwait”
  • Chechen: “Кувайт”
  • Chechen: “Кувейт”
  • Chinese: “Kēwēitè”
  • Chinese: “Kuwait”
  • Chinese: “科威特”
  • Chuvash: “Кувейт”
  • Cornish: “Koweyt”
  • Cornish: “Kuweyt”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Küveyt”
  • Croatian: “Kuvajt”
  • Czech: “Kuvajt”
  • Dagbani: “Kuwait”
  • Danish: “Kuwait”
  • Dhivehi: “ކުވެއިތު”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Kuweyt”
  • Dotyali: “कुवेत”
  • Dutch: “Koeweit”
  • Dutch: “KW”
  • Dutch: “KWT”
  • Dutch: “Staat Koeweit”
  • Dzongkha: “ཀུ་ཝེཊ་”
  • Dzongkha: “ཀུ་ཝེཊ”
  • Eastern Mari: “Кувейт”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “الكويت”
  • Esperanto: “Kuvajto”
  • Esperanto: “KW”
  • Esperanto: “Ŝtato Kuvajto”
  • Estonian: “Kuveidi Riik”
  • Estonian: “Kuveit”
  • Ewe: “Kuwait nutome”
  • Extremaduran: “Kuwait”
  • Faroese: “Kuvait”
  • Faroese: “Kuveit”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Kuwait”
  • Finnish: “Kuwait”
  • Finnish: “Kuwaitin valtio”
  • French: “Koweit”
  • French: “Koweït”
  • French: “Kuwait”
  • French: “KW”
  • French: “l’État du Koweït”
  • Fulah: “Kuwayti”
  • Fulah: “Kuweyti”
  • Gagauz: “Kuveyt”
  • Galician: “Kuwait”
  • Ganda: “Kuweti”
  • Georgian: “კუვეიტი”
  • Georgian: “ქუვეითი”
  • German: “Kuwait”
  • German: “Kuweit”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Kuwait”
  • Gilaki: “کؤویت”
  • Goan Konkani: “Kuwait”
  • Goan Konkani: “कुवेत”
  • Greek: “Κουβέιτ”
  • Guarani: “Kuáite”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Kowèyt”
  • Gujarati: “કુવૈત”
  • Haitian: “Kowet”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Kuwait”
  • Hausa: “Kuwait”
  • Hausa: “Kuwaiti”
  • Hausa: “Kwiyat”
  • Hawaiian: “Kuete”
  • Hebrew: “כוויית”
  • Hebrew: “כווית”
  • Hindi: “कुवैत”
  • Hungarian: “Kuvait”
  • Hungarian: “Kuvaiti Állam”
  • Hungarian: “Kuwait”
  • Iban: “Kuwait”
  • Icelandic: “Kúveit”
  • Ido: “Kuwait”
  • Igbo: “Kuwait”
  • Iloko: “Kuwait”
  • Inari Sami: “Kuwait staatâ”
  • Inari Sami: “Kuwait”
  • Indonesian: “Kuwait”
  • Interlingua: “Kuwait”
  • Interlingue: “Kuwait”
  • Irish: “Cuáit”
  • Italian: “Kuwait”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Kuwiet”
  • Japanese: “クウェート”
  • Japanese: “クウェート国”
  • Japanese: “クウェイト”
  • Javanese: “Kuwait”
  • Kabardian: “Кувейт”
  • Kabiyè: “Kowɛtɩ”
  • Kabyle: “Lekwit”
  • Kadazan Dusun: “Kuwait”
  • Kalaallisut: “Kuwait”
  • Kalmyk: “Кувейтин Нутг”
  • Kannada: “ಕುವೈತ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Kuvayt”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Kuveyt”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Кувейт”
  • Kashmiri: “کُویت”
  • Kashubian: “Kùwejt”
  • Kazakh: “Кувейт елі”
  • Kazakh: “Кувейт”
  • Khmer: “កូវ៉ែត”
  • Khmer: “គុយវ៉ែត”
  • Kikuyu: “Kuwait”
  • Kikuyu: “Kuwaiti”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Koweti”
  • Kirghiz: “Кувейт”
  • Komering: “Kuwait”
  • Komi: “Кувейт”
  • Kongo: “Kuwait”
  • Korean: “쿠웨이트”
  • Kurdish: “Kuweyt”
  • Kurdish: “کوەیت”
  • Ladin: “Cueit”
  • Ladin: “KW”
  • Ladino: “Kuwait”
  • Lao: “ກູເວດ”
  • Lao: “ປະເທດຄູເວດ”
  • Latin: “Cuvaitum”
  • Latvian: “Kuveita”
  • Lezghian: “Кувейт”
  • Ligurian: “Kuwait”
  • Limburgan: “Koeweit”
  • Lingala: “Koweit”
  • Lingala: “Koweti”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Cuait”
  • Literary Chinese: “科威特”
  • Lithuanian: “Kuveitas”
  • Livvi: “Kuveit”
  • Lojban: “ku,uait”
  • Lombard: “Kuwait”
  • Low German: “Kuwait”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Kuwait”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Koweti”
  • Luxembourgish: “Kuwait”
  • Macedonian: “Кувајт”
  • Madurese: “Kuwait”
  • Maithili: “कुवैत”
  • Malagasy: “Kôeity”
  • Malagasy: “Koety”
  • Malagasy: “Kôety”
  • Malay: “Kuwait”
  • Malay: “کويت”
  • Malayalam: “കുവൈറ്റ്”
  • Malayalam: “കുവൈറ്റ്‌”
  • Maltese: “il-Kuwajt”
  • Maltese: “Kuwajt”
  • Maltese: “l-Istat tal-Kuwajt”
  • Manipuri: “ꯀꯨꯋꯩꯠ”
  • Manx: “y Choowait”
  • Manx: “Yn Choowait”
  • Maori: “Kūweiti”
  • Marathi: “कुवेत”
  • Marathi: “कुवैत”
  • Mazanderani: “کوویت”
  • Mazanderani: “کویت”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Kuwait”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kuwait”
  • Minangkabau: “Kuwait”
  • Mingrelian: “ქუვეითი”
  • Moksha: “Кувэйт”
  • Mongolian: “Кувейт”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “لكويت”
  • Nauru: “Kuwait”
  • Navajo: “Tábąąh Bineʼ Naʼadziʼii Hahoodzo”
  • Nepali: “कुवेत”
  • Newari: “कुवेत”
  • North Ndebele: “Khuweiti”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kuwait”
  • Northern Luri: “ولات کویت”
  • Northern Sami: “Kuwait stáhta”
  • Northern Sami: “Kuwait”
  • Northern Sami: “Kuwaita stáhta”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kuwait”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Staten Kuwait”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kuwait”
  • Norwegian: “Kuwait”
  • Novial: “Kuwayt”
  • Obolo: “Kùwêt”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Kowait”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܟܘܘܝܬ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Cuwait”
  • Oriya: “କୁଏତ”
  • Oriya: “କୁଏତ୍”
  • Oromo: “Kuweet”
  • Ossetian: “Кувейт”
  • Pali: “कुवैत”
  • Pampanga: “Kuwait”
  • Panjabi: “ਕੁਵੈਤ”
  • Papiamento: “Kuwait”
  • Persian: “کویت”
  • Piemontese: “Kuwait”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Kyuuwait”
  • Polish: “Kuwejt”
  • Portuguese: “Covaite”
  • Portuguese: “Cuvaite”
  • Portuguese: “Estado do Kuwait”
  • Portuguese: “Koweit”
  • Portuguese: “Kuaite”
  • Portuguese: “Kuwait”
  • Portuguese: “Kuweit”
  • Pushto: “کويت”
  • Pushto: “کویټ”
  • Pushto: “کوېټ”
  • Quechua: “Kuwait”
  • Rakhine: “ကူဝိတ်နိုင်ငံ”
  • Romanian: “Kuweit”
  • Romansh: “Kuwait”
  • Rundi: “Koweti”
  • Russia Buriat: “Кувейт”
  • Russian: “Государство Кувейт”
  • Russian: “Кувейт”
  • Rusyn: “Кувейт”
  • Sakizaya: “Kuwait”
  • Samogitian: “Kovėits”
  • Sango: “Köwêti”
  • Sanskrit: “कुवैत”
  • Santali: “ᱠᱩᱣᱮᱛ”
  • Santali: “ᱠᱩᱭᱮᱛ”
  • Saraiki: “کویت”
  • Sardinian: “Kuwait”
  • Scots: “Kuwait”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Cubhait”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Cuibhèit”
  • Serbian: “Kuvajt”
  • Serbian: “Кувајт”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kuvajt”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းၶူႇဝဵတ်ႈ”
  • Shona: “Kuwait”
  • Sicilian: “Kuwait”
  • Silesian: “Kuwejt”
  • Sindhi: “ڪويت”
  • Sinhala: “කුවේටය”
  • Sinhala: “කුවේට් රාජ්‍යය”
  • Skolt Sami: “Kuwaait riikk”
  • Skolt Sami: “Kuwaait valdia”
  • Skolt Sami: “Kuwaitt”
  • Slovak: “Kuvajt”
  • Slovak: “Kuvajtský štát”
  • Slovenian: “Kuvajt”
  • Somali: “Kuwayt”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کووئیت”
  • Spanish: “Estado de Kuwait”
  • Spanish: “Kuwait”
  • Sundanese: “Kuwait”
  • Swahili: “Kuwait”
  • Swahili: “Kuwaiti”
  • Swati: “IKhuwathi”
  • Swedish: “Kuwait”
  • Swedish: “Staten Kuwait”
  • Swiss German: “Kuwait”
  • Sylheti: “ꠇꠥꠄꠔ”
  • Sylheti: “ꠇꠥꠅꠦꠔ”
  • Tagalog: “Kuwait”
  • Tajik: “Кувайт”
  • Tajik: “Қувайт”
  • Talysh: “Kuvejt”
  • Talysh: “Kuveyt”
  • Tamil: “குவேட்”
  • Tamil: “குவைத்”
  • Tamil: “குவைத்து”
  • Taroko: “Kuwait”
  • Tatar: “Күвәйт”
  • Telugu: “కువైట్”
  • Tetum: “Kuwait”
  • Thai: “คูเวต”
  • Thai: “ประเทศคูเวต”
  • Tibetan: “ཀུ་ཝེད་རྒྱལ་ཁབ།”
  • Tibetan: “ཁུ་ཝི་ཐི།”
  • Tigrinya: “ክዌት”
  • Tok Pisin: “Kuwait”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Kueiti”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Kuwait”
  • Tulu: “ಕುವೈತ್”
  • Tumbuka: “Kuwait”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “الكويت”
  • Turkish: “Kuveyt”
  • Turkmen: “Kuweýt”
  • Udmurt: “Кувейт”
  • Uighur: “كۇۋەيت”
  • Ukrainian: “Кувейт”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Kuwait”
  • Urdu: “کویت”
  • Uzbek: “Kuvayt”
  • Uzbek: “Quvayt”
  • Venetian: “Kuait”
  • Venetian: “Kuwait”
  • Veps: “Kuveit”
  • Vietnamese: “Cô-oét”
  • Vietnamese: “Kuwait”
  • Vietnamese: “Nhà nước Kuwait”
  • Vlax Romani: “Kuwait”
  • Volapük: “Kovätän”
  • Võro: “Kuveit”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kuwait”
  • Welsh: “Ciwait”
  • Welsh: “Cowait”
  • Welsh: “Coweit”
  • Welsh: “Kuwait”
  • Western Armenian: “Քուէյթ”
  • Western Balochi: “کویت”
  • Western Frisian: “Koeweit”
  • Western Frisian: “Kûweit”
  • Western Panjabi: “کویت”
  • Wolof: “Kowet”
  • Wu Chinese: “科威特”
  • Yakut: “Кувейт”
  • Yiddish: “קואווייט”
  • Yoruba: “Kuwaiti”
  • Yoruba: “Kùwéìtì”
  • Yoruba: “Kuweti”
  • Yue Chinese: “科威特”
  • Zeeuws: “Koeweit”
  • Zhuang: “Kuwait”
  • Zulu: “i-Kuwait”
  • “Cuhuait”
  • “Kovėits”
  • “Kowait”
  • “Kowait Tlahtohkayotl”
  • “Kuveit”
  • “KUW”
  • “KW”
  • “KWT”
  • “ma Kuwasi”
  • “कुवैत”

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