One of the hottest inhabited places on Earth, with recorded temperatures above 53 ยฐC.
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Kuwait
State of Kuwait ยท ุงููููุช
Asia
ยท Western Asia
0Population
17.82Kkmยฒ of land
$32KGDP / person
Kuwait CityCapital
- ISO codes
- KW ยท KWT
- Density
- 236 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- Arabic
- Currency
- Kuwaiti dinar (KWD)
- Dial code
- +965
- Internet domain
- .kw
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 29.4140ยฐ N, 47.3140ยฐ E
- Demonym
- Kuwaiti
- UN region
- Western Asia
- Economy
- Developing region
- Income group
- High income: nonOECD
- Total GDP
- $134.63B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 2
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By the numbers
How Kuwait stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
131st
of 242 ยท 0.05% of world population
Land area
157th
of 242 ยท 0.01% of world land
GDP per person
50th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
55th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Kuwait
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 4,207,083 people, the 131st largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly one in 1,825 of everyone alive.
Covers 17,818 kmยฒ, making it the 157th largest country here - about 6.9 times the size of Luxembourg.
Population density is about 236 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Kuwait City, at 29.37ยฐ N, 47.98ยฐ E, with a metropolitan population of about 2,063,000.
Shares land borders with 2 countries: Iraq and Saudi Arabia.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, Asia/Kuwait.
The currency is the Kuwaiti dinar (KWD, symbol ุฏ.ู).
The official language is Arabic.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Asia/Kuwait
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UTC+03:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
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Kuwait City
Al Kuwayt
29.3717ยฐ N, 47.9764ยฐ E
2.06M
Land neighbours
2 countries share a border with Kuwait.