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MiddleEast Middle East GCC Gulf Arabian Kuwait AlKuwait Q8 The State of Kuwait (i/kuːˈweɪt/; Arabic: دولة الكويت
Dawlat al-Kuwayt) is a sovereign Arab nation situated in the north-east of the Arabian Peninsula in Western Asia. It is bordered by Saudi Arabia to the south at Khafji
and Iraq to the north at Basra. It lies on the north-western shore of the Persian Gulf. The name Kuwait is derived from the Arabic akwat
the plural of kout
meaning fortress built near water.[5] The Emirate covers an area of 17
820 square kilometers (6
880 sq mi) and has a population of about 3.6 million.[2] Historically
the region was the site of Characene
a major Parthian port for trade between India and Mesopotamia. The Bani Utbah Tribe were the first permanent Arab settlers in the region and laid the foundation of the modern emirate. By the 19th century
Kuwait came under the influence of the Ottoman Empire
and after World War I
it emerged as an independent sheikhdom under the protection of the British Empire. Kuwait's large oil fields were discovered in the late 1930s. After Kuwait gained independence from the United Kingdom in 1961
the nation's oil industry saw unprecedented economic growth. In 1990
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