Kuwait, officially the
State of Kuwait
i// (
Arabic:
دولة الكويت
Dawlat
al-Kuwayt ), is an
Arab
country in
Western Asia.
Situated in the northeastern edge of the
Arabian peninsula
at the tip of the
Persian
Gulf, it shares borders with
Iraq to the
north and
Saudi Arabia to
the south. The name "Kuwait" is the diminutive of
Arabic كوت kūt, meaning "fortress".
[5] The country covers
an area of 17,820 square kilometers (6,880 square miles) and according to CIA
has a population of 2.6 million as of 2012.
[1]
More at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuwait
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