Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Kuwait, [a] officially the State of Kuwait, [b] is a country in West Asia. It is situated in the northern edge of the Arabian Peninsula at the tip of the Persian Gulf , bordering Iraq to the north and Saudi Arabia to the south . [ 14 ]
The location of Kuwait An enlargeable map of the State of Kuwait. Kuwait is a sovereign emirate located on the coast of the Persian Gulf in Southwest Asia and the Middle East. [1] Kuwait is bordered by Saudi Arabia to the south and Iraq to the north and west. The name of Kuwait is a diminutive of an Arabic word meaning "fortress built near water."
Kuwait was the first country in the world to use desalination to supply water for large-scale domestic use. The history of desalination in Kuwait dates back to 1951 when the first distillation plant was commissioned. [28] Kuwait's fresh water resources are limited to groundwater, desalinated seawater, and treated wastewater effluents. [28]
Like most other Arab states of the Persian Gulf, Kuwait is an emirate; the emir is the head of state and the ruling Al Sabah family dominates the country's political system. Kuwait's official state religion is Islam, specifically the Maliki school of Sunni Islam. Kuwait is a high-income economy, backed by the world's sixth largest oil reserves.
The economy of Kuwait is a wealthy petroleum-based economy. [15] Kuwait is one of the richest countries in the world. [16] [17] [18] The Kuwaiti dinar is the highest-valued unit of currency in the world. [citation needed] According to the World Bank, Kuwait is the fifth richest country in the world by gross national income per capita. [19]
[160] [161] [162] Kuwait was first Middle East country to diversify its revenue away from oil exports, [163] establishing the Kuwait Investment Authority as the world's first sovereign wealth fund. From the 1970s onward, Kuwait scored highest of all Arab countries on the Human Development Index , [ 162 ] and Kuwait University , founded in 1966 ...
India’s Ambassador to Kuwait, Adarsh Swaika visited several of the injured in hospital and the site of the fire. Kuwaiti security forces gather at the building that was engulfed by fire in ...
Expatriates account for around 60% of Kuwait's total population, with Kuwaitis constituting 38%-42% of the total population. The government and some Kuwaiti citizens consider the proportion of expatriates (which has been relatively stable since the mid-1970s) to be a problem, and in 2016 the number of deportations increased.