Middle East
Kuwait
Capital Governorate

Kuwait City

Kuwait City is the capital of . Kuwait City is a bustling metropolis of high-rise office buildings, luxury hotels, wide boulevards and well-tended parks and gardens.
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  • Type: City with 637,000 residents
  • Description: capital of Kuwait
  • Also known as: “Al Kuwait”, “al-Kuwait”, “Kuwait”, “Kuwayt”, and “Madīnat al Kuwayt”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Kuwait National Museum and Seif Palace.

Museum
Photo: Kuwaitsoccer, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is the national museum of , located in Kuwait City. It was established in 1983 and designed by architect Michel Ecochard.

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is a palace in Kuwait City, . Located opposite the Grand Mosque, one of 's best-known features is the watch tower, covered in blue tiles and with a roof plated in pure gold.

Hospital
The is a located in the Kuwait City and it serves an estimated 400,000 patients per year.

Kuwait City

Latitude
29.3797° or 29° 22′ 47″ north
Longitude
47.9734° or 47° 58′ 24″ east
Population
637,000
Elevation
11 metres (36 feet)
IATA airport code
KWI
United Nations Location Code
KW KWI
Open location code
7HX99XHF+V9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 544060405
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
285787
Wiki­data ID
Q35178
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Kuwait City” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Al-Kuwait”
  • Adyghe: “Эль-Кувейт”
  • Afrikaans: “Koeweit”
  • Afrikaans: “Kuwait”
  • Afrikaans: “Kuweit”
  • Albanian: “Kuvajti”
  • Amharic: “ኩዌት ከተማ”
  • Arabic: “الكويت العاصمة”
  • Arabic: “الكويت”
  • Arabic: “اَلْكُوَيْت”
  • Arabic: “كويت”
  • Arabic: “مدينة الكويت”
  • Arabic: “مدينه الكويت”
  • Aragonese: “Ciudat de Kuwait”
  • Armenian: “Ալ-Քուվեյթ”
  • Armenian: “Էլ Քուվեյթ”
  • Armenian: “Էլ-Քուվեյթ”
  • Armenian: “Քուվեյթ”
  • Arpitan: “Koveyit”
  • Asturian: “Ciudá de Kuwait”
  • Awadhi: “कुवैत नगर”
  • Azerbaijani: “Əl-Küveyt”
  • Azerbaijani: “Küveyt”
  • Balinese: “Kota Kuwait”
  • Bashkir: “Әл-Күвәйт”
  • Basque: “Kuwait Hiria”
  • Basque: “Kuwait”
  • Belarusian: “Кувейт”
  • Belarusian: “Кувэйт”
  • Belarusian: “Эль-Кувейт”
  • Bengali: “কুয়েত শহর”
  • Bengali: “কুয়েত সিটি”
  • Bosnian: “Kuvajt”
  • Breton: “Kêr Goweit”
  • Breton: “Kêr-Goweit”
  • Breton: “Koweit”
  • Bulgarian: “Кувейт”
  • Burmese: “ကူဝိတ်မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Al Kuwait”
  • Catalan: “Al-Kuwait”
  • Catalan: “Ciutat de Kuwait”
  • Catalan: “Kuwait”
  • Cebuano: “Kuwait City”
  • Central Bikol: “Syudad nin Kuwait”
  • Central Kurdish: “شاری کووەیت”
  • Chechen: “Кувейт”
  • Chinese: “Kuwait Chhī”
  • Chinese: “科威特城”
  • Chinese: “科威特市”
  • Croatian: “Al Kuwait”
  • Croatian: “Al Kuwayt”
  • Croatian: “Kuvajt”
  • Croatian: “Kuwait”
  • Czech: “Kuvajt”
  • Czech: “Kuwait City”
  • Danish: “Kuwait City”
  • Danish: “Kuwait”
  • Dotyali: “कुवेत सिटी”
  • Dutch: “Koeweit-stad”
  • Dutch: “Koeweit”
  • Dutch: “Kuwait City”
  • Eastern Mari: “Кувейт”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مدينه الكويت”
  • Esperanto: “Kuvaito”
  • Esperanto: “Kuvajt-urbo”
  • Esperanto: “Kuvajto”
  • Esperanto: “Kuvajturbo”
  • Estonian: “Al-Kuwayt”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Kuwait City”
  • Finnish: “Kuwait City”
  • Finnish: “Kuwait”
  • French: “Koweit City”
  • French: “Koweït City”
  • French: “Koweit”
  • French: “Koweït”
  • French: “Kuwait City”
  • French: “Ville de Koweït”
  • Galician: “Al Kuwait”
  • Galician: “Al-Kuwait”
  • Galician: “Cidade de Kuwait”
  • Galician: “Kuwait”
  • Galician: “Madīnat al-Kūwait”
  • Galician: “مدينة الكويت”
  • Georgian: “ელ-ქუვეითი”
  • Georgian: “ქუვეითი”
  • German: “Kuwai-Stadt”
  • German: “Kuwait City”
  • German: “Kuwait-Stadt”
  • German: “Kuwait”
  • German: “Kuweit-Stadt”
  • German: “Kuweit”
  • Greek: “Κουβέιτ”
  • Greek: “Πόλη του Κουβέιτ”
  • Guarani: “Táva Kuáite”
  • Gujarati: “કુવૈત શહેર”
  • Gujarati: “કુવૈત”
  • Haitian: “Kowèt”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Kuwait Sṳ”
  • Hausa: “Kuwaiti (birni)”
  • Hausa: “Kuwaiti”
  • Hebrew: “העיר כווית”
  • Hebrew: “כווית סיטי”
  • Hebrew: “כווית”
  • Hindi: “कुवैत नगर”
  • Hindi: “कुवैत सिटी”
  • Hungarian: “Kuvaitváros”
  • Icelandic: “Kúveitborg”
  • Ido: “Kuwait-Urbo”
  • Iloko: “Siudad ti Kuwait”
  • Indonesian: “Kota Kuwait”
  • Indonesian: “Kuwait City”
  • Indonesian: “Kuwait”
  • Interlingue: “Kuwait (Cité)”
  • Interlingue: “Kuwait”
  • Irish: “Cathair Chuáit”
  • Italian: “Al Kuwait”
  • Italian: “Al-Kuwait”
  • Italian: “Città del Kuwait”
  • Italian: “Madinat al-Kuwait”
  • Japanese: “クウェートシティ”
  • Japanese: “クウェート市”
  • Japanese: “クウェイト市”
  • Javanese: “Kuwait City”
  • Kabyle: “Lekwit”
  • Kalaallisut: “Kuwait Illoqarfik”
  • Kannada: “ಕುವೈತ್ ನಗರ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Al-Kuveyt”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Al-Quwayt”
  • Kazakh: “Кувейт”
  • Kazakh: “Эль-Кувейт”
  • Kirghiz: “Кувейт”
  • Kirghiz: “Эл-Кувейт”
  • Komering: “Kota Kuwait”
  • Kongo: “Mbanza ya Kuwait”
  • Korean: “쿠웨이트 시”
  • Korean: “쿠웨이트 시티”
  • Korean: “쿠웨이트”
  • Korean: “쿠웨이트시티”
  • Latin: “Cuvaitum”
  • Latvian: “Kuveita”
  • Ligurian: “Çitæ do Kuwait”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Cuait”
  • Lithuanian: “Al Kuveitas”
  • Lithuanian: “Kuveitas”
  • Livvi: “El-Kuveit”
  • Lombard: “Cità del Kuwait”
  • Lombard: “Kuwait City”
  • Lombard: “Sità del Kuwait”
  • Luxembourgish: “Kuwait”
  • Macedonian: “Кувајт”
  • Maithili: “कुवैत सिटी”
  • Malagasy: “Kuwait City”
  • Malay: “Bandar Kuwait”
  • Malay: “Bandaraya Kuwait”
  • Malay: “Kota Kuwait”
  • Malay: “Kuwait City”
  • Malayalam: “കുവൈറ്റ് സിറ്റി”
  • Maltese: “Belt tal-Kuwajt”
  • Marathi: “कुवेत शहर”
  • Marathi: “कुवेत सिटी”
  • Marathi: “कुवैत शहर”
  • Mazanderani: “الکویت”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Kuwait Chê”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kuwait Chhī”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kuwait-chhī”
  • Minangkabau: “Kota Kuwait”
  • Mingrelian: “ელ-ქუვეითი”
  • Moksha: “Кувэйт”
  • Moksha: “Эль-Кувэйт”
  • Mongolian: “Кувейт хот”
  • Mongolian: “Кувейт”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “لكويت”
  • Nepali: “कुवेत सहर”
  • Nepali: “कुवैत सिटी”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kuwait Steed”
  • Northern Luri: “کویت”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kuwait by”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kuwait City”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kuwait”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kuwait by”
  • Norwegian: “Kuwait by”
  • Norwegian: “Kuwait”
  • Novial: “Kuwayt Urbe”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Kowait”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܟܘܘܝܬ”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܟܘܝܬ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Cywaithæfen”
  • Ossetian: “Кувейт”
  • Ossetian: “Эль-Кувейт”
  • Panjabi: “ਕੁਵੈਤ ਸ਼ਹਿਰ”
  • Papiamento: “Kuwait City”
  • Persian: “الکویت (شهر)”
  • Persian: “شهر کویت”
  • Persian: “کویت”
  • Persian: “کویت‌شهر”
  • Piemontese: “Sità dël Kuwait”
  • Polish: “Kuwejt”
  • Portuguese: “Al Kuwait”
  • Portuguese: “al-Kuwait”
  • Portuguese: “Cidade do Kuwait”
  • Portuguese: “Couaite”
  • Portuguese: “Cuaite”
  • Portuguese: “Kuwait”
  • Portuguese: “Quaite”
  • Romanian: “Kuwait City”
  • Romanian: “Kuweit”
  • Romanian: “Orașul Kuweit”
  • Russia Buriat: “Эль-Кувейт”
  • Russian: “Кувейт”
  • Russian: “Эль-Кувейт”
  • Samogitian: “Kovėits”
  • Santali: “ᱠᱩᱣᱮᱛ ᱥᱚᱦᱚᱨ”
  • Sardinian: “Al Kuwait”
  • Scots: “Kuwait Ceety”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Cubhait”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Kuwait City”
  • Serbian: “Kuvajt”
  • Serbian: “Град Кувајт”
  • Serbian: “Кувајт Сити”
  • Serbian: “Кувајт”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kuvajt”
  • Shona: “Kuwait City”
  • Silesian: “Kuwejt (mjasto)”
  • Silesian: “Kuwejt”
  • Sindhi: “ڪويت شهر”
  • Sinhala: “කුවේට් නගරය”
  • Slovak: “Kuvajt”
  • Slovak: “Kuwait City”
  • Slovenian: “Kuvajt”
  • Somali: “Magaalada Kuwayt”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کووئیت”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کویت”
  • Spanish: “Al Kuwait”
  • Spanish: “Al-Kuwait”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad de Kuwait”
  • Spanish: “Kuwait City”
  • Spanish: “Kuwait”
  • Swahili: “Jiji la Kuwait”
  • Swahili: “Kuwait City”
  • Swedish: “Kuwait City”
  • Swedish: “Kuwait Stad (huvudstaden i Kuwait)”
  • Swedish: “Kuwait Stad”
  • Swedish: “Kuwait”
  • Swedish: “Madinat al-Kuwayt”
  • Swedish: “Madīnat al-Kuwayt”
  • Swedish: “مدينة الكويت”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod Kuwait”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Kuwait”
  • Tajik: “Ал-Кувейт”
  • Tajik: “Кувайт”
  • Talysh: “Əl Kuvejt”
  • Talysh: “Əl Kuveyt”
  • Tamil: “குவைட் நகரம்”
  • Tamil: “குவைத் நகரம்”
  • Telugu: “కువైట్ నగరం”
  • Telugu: “కువైట్”
  • Thai: “Kuwait City”
  • Thai: “กรุงคูเวตซิตี”
  • Thai: “คูเวต ซิตี”
  • Thai: “คูเวตซิตี”
  • Tibetan: “ཁུ་ཝི་ཐི།”
  • Tumbuka: “Kuwait City”
  • Turkish: “Kuveyt City”
  • Turkish: “Kuveyt Şehri”
  • Turkish: “Kuveyt”
  • Turkmen: “Al-Kuweýt”
  • Turkmen: “El Kuweýt”
  • Udmurt: “Эль-Кувейт”
  • Uighur: “كۇۋەيت شەھىرى”
  • Ukrainian: “Ель-Кувейт”
  • Ukrainian: “Кувейт”
  • Urdu: “کویت سٹی”
  • Urdu: “کویت شہر”
  • Urdu: “کویت کا دارالحکومت”
  • Uzbek: “Al-Quvayt”
  • Venetian: “Al Kuwait”
  • Veps: “El‘ Kuveit”
  • Veps: “El’ Kuveit”
  • Vietnamese: “Thành phố Kuwait”
  • Volapük: “Kuväyt”
  • Võro: “Al-Kuwayt”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kuwait City”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Syudad han Kuwait”
  • Welsh: “Dinas Coweit”
  • Welsh: “Dinas Kuwait”
  • Western Armenian: “Մայրաքաղաք Քուէյթ”
  • Western Frisian: “Koeweit”
  • Western Panjabi: “کویت شہر”
  • Wu Chinese: “科威特城”
  • Yoruba: “Ìlú Kuwaiti”
  • Yoruba: “Kuwait City”
  • Yue Chinese: “科威特城”
  • Zulu: “i-Kuwait City”
  • “Al-Kuwayt”
  • “Āltepētl Cuhuait”
  • “Kovėits”

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