{"id":370594,"date":"2026-08-29T14:45:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T09:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=370594"},"modified":"2026-08-29T14:45:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T09:15:33","slug":"key-facts-about-kuwait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/key-facts-about-kuwait\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Facts About Kuwait"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content-box-green\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>News:<\/strong> The inaugural meeting of the India-Kuwait Joint Defence Committee (JDC) was held in New Delhi.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"red-h2-box\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Key Facts About Kuwait<\/h2>\n<figure style=\"width: 380px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQIzU0sXNFF1EN_QfxCtGjovNRk8ueOnEjkRCFJJluTSw&amp;s=10\" alt=\"Kuwait \" width=\"380\" height=\"314\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Britannica<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Location: Kuwait<\/strong> is a country in <strong>Western Asia.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is situated in the<strong> northern edge of Eastern Arabia at the tip of the Persian Gulf. <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Boundaries:<\/strong> It shares borders with<strong> Iraq, the <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/persian-gulf\/\">Persian Gulf<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/key-facts-about-saudi-arabia\/\">Saudi Arabia<\/a>.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Capital:<\/strong><strong> Kuwait City<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Key Features:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Islands:<\/strong> It has several islands like <strong>Al-Warbah, Bubiyan, and Failakah Islands.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Escarpment: <\/strong>The<strong>\u00a0<span id=\"ref484450\"><\/span>Al-Zawr Escarpment<\/strong>\u00a0borders the northwestern shore of Kuwait Bay.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bay: Kuwait Bay <\/strong>is a <strong>deep harbour on the Persian Gulf<\/strong>.\n<ul>\n<li>It covers nearly<strong> 50% of the country&#8217;s shoreline<\/strong> and shelters the <strong>port of Kuwait.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Desert:<\/strong> Most parts of Kuwait are covered by the<strong> Arabian Desert. It<\/strong>\u00a0is an<strong> entirely flat and dry barren desert of sandy plains<\/strong> broken by occasional shallow depressions and low hills.\n<ul>\n<li>The<strong> land (desert) begins to rise slightly in the southwest,<\/strong> along the border with Saudi Arabia.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Marshland: <\/strong>In coastal areas,<strong> large patches of salty marshland have developed. <\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Desert basins:<\/strong> Throughout the northern, western, and central sections of Kuwait, there are <strong>desert basins,<\/strong> which fill with water after winter rains.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lakes and rivers:<\/strong> There are <strong>no perennial lakes or rivers<\/strong>. Instead, there are <strong>wadis or transient watercourses<\/strong> that end in inland basins.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Highest Point:<\/strong> The country&#8217;s highest point is an <strong>unnamed hill that peaks at 1,003 ft. (306 m).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Major ports: <\/strong>The three main ports in Kuwait are<strong> Shuwaikh port, Doha port and Shuaiba port.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: The inaugural meeting of the India-Kuwait Joint Defence Committee (JDC) was held in New Delhi. Key Facts About Kuwait Location: Kuwait is a country in Western Asia. It is situated in the northern edge of Eastern Arabia at the tip of the Persian Gulf. Boundaries: It shares borders with Iraq, the Persian Gulf and&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/key-facts-about-kuwait\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Key Facts About Kuwait<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10366,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,164,12039,11211],"tags":[11872,12085],"class_list":["post-370594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","category-knolls","category-places-in-news","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-news-on-air","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}