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/kʊˈweɪt/
‘arabic’ –> الكويت al-Kuwait,
‘gulf arabic pronunciation’ –> [ɪl‿ɪkweːt] or [lɪkweːt]
*officially the state of kuwait*
(‘arabic’ –> دولة الكويت Dawlat al-Kuwait)
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(‘kuwait’ is a country in ‘western asia’)
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(situated in the northern edge of ‘eastern arabia’ at the tip of the ‘persian gulf’, it shares borders with ‘iraq’ + ‘saudi arabia’)
(as of 2016, ‘kuwait’ has a population of 4.5 million people)
(1.3 million are ‘kuwaitis’ / ‘3.2 million’ are ‘expatriates’)
(‘expatriates’ account for 70% of the population)
(‘oil reserves’ were discovered in ‘commercial quantities’ in ‘1938’)
(from ‘1946’ to ‘1982’, the country underwent ‘large-scale modernization’)
(in the ‘1980s’, ‘kuwait’ experienced a period of ‘geo-political instability’ + an ‘economic crisis’ following the ‘stock market crash’)
(in ‘1990’, ‘kuwait’ was ‘invaded’ (+ later ‘annexed’) by saddam’s ‘iraq’)
(the ‘iraqi occupation’ of ‘kuwait’ came to an end in ‘1991’ after ‘military intervention’ by a ‘military coalition’ led by the ‘united states’)
(‘kuwait’ is a major ‘non-NATO ally’ of the ‘united states’)
(it is also a major ally of ‘ASEAN’, while maintaining a strong relationship with ‘china’)
(‘kuwait’ is a ‘constitutional sovereign state’ with a ‘semi-democratic political system’)
(‘kuwait’ has a ‘high-income economy’ backed by the world’s 6th largest oil reserves)
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*the kuwaiti ‘dinar’ is the highest valued currency in the world*
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(according to the ‘world bank’, the country has the 4th-highest per capita income)
(the ‘constitution’ was promulgated in ‘1962’)
(‘kuwait’ is home to the largest opera house in the ‘middle east’)
(the ‘kuwait national cultural district’ is a member of the ‘global cultural districts network’)
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👈👈👈☜*back to “MODERN NATIONS OF THE MIDDLE EAST”* ☞ 👉👉👉
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*🌈✨ *TABLE OF CONTENTS* ✨🌷*
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🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥*we won the war* 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥