Kuwait Country Info - Asia

Description and Basic Information

Kuwait with its capital Kuwait City is located in Asia (Middle East, bordering the Persian Gulf). It covers some 17,821 square kilometres (slightly smaller than New Jersey) with 2,596,000 citizens. Arabic and English are the the languages commonly used by the people in Kuwait. It is charing borders with Saudi Arabia and Iraq.

Kuwaitis a country in the Middle East. It is located at the head of the Arabian Gulf, with Iraq to the north and west, and Saudi Arabia to the southwest.Kuwait City is a bustling metropolis of high-rise office buildings, luxury hotels, wide boulevards and well-tended parks and gardens. Its seaport is used by oil tankers, cargo ships and many pleasure craft. Its most dominant landmarks are the Kuwait Towers. Kuwait City is not, however, an attractive city to visit as much of the architecture and its general feel is one of sand blown, dustiness.

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About Kuwait

The landscape features flat to slightly undulating desert plain. The average density of population is about 145 per km². The climate in Kuwait can be described as dry desert with intensely hot summers, short, cool winters. Potential threats by nature are sudden cloudbursts are common from October to April and bring heavy rain, which can damage roads and houses or sandstorms and dust storms occur throughout the year but are most common between March and August.

To reach someone in Kuwait dial +965 prior to a number. There are 553,500 installed telephones. And there are 3,876,000 registered mobile phones. The cellular networks operate on frequencies of 900, 1800 Mhz. Websites typically end with the top level domain ".kw". If you want to bring electric appliances (e.g. battery charger), keep in mind the local 240V - 50Hz. The following list are the 6 regions/states in Kuwait we know off.

Demographic Statistics

In the year 2010, the total Kuwaiti population grew at a rate of 3.5% (or by 97,620 citizens). With 6,387 deaths and 60,357 babies born, the natural increase rate lies at 1.94%. 43,650 persons more in total immigrated to the country than emmigrated.

An overview of age distribution in Kuwait: Each pair of bars represents a single age group (male/female). Each group is spanning 5 years. E.g. 0 to 5 years, 5 to 10 etc. and group "0 to 5" being at the left end and "100 +" at the right end of the chart.

Based on content from wikitravel.org. The original article can be found here based on the work of these users.
Geographic information is based on the data provided by geonames.org, CIA factsbook and Unesco.