*kuwait*

Location of Kuwait (green)
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OFFICIAL WEBSITE*

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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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