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14,708. Sharq (Arabic: شرق, romanized: Šarq) is a historic waterfront district of Kuwait City. It is Kuwait City's oldest neighborhood although most pre-oil buildings were demolished in the 1960s and 1970s. It is now a modern business area and contains many buildings, skyscrapers and malls such as the Souq Sharq and Arraya Tower.
Areas are much less commonly called by other names such as districts or towns. However they are commonly known inside the English-speaking community in Kuwait as, and are officially translated as, areas. [1][2][3] The Arabic word for area, Mintaqah, can mean both mean area and region. [4][5] Areas are further subdivided into blocks, each of ...
Sharq, Kuwait City, Kuwait. Address. 29.3891382°N 47.9805091°E. Opening date. 30 September 1998 [citation needed] Total retail floor area. 55,567 m 2 (598,120 sq ft) The Souk Sharq is a major shopping center in Kuwait City, Kuwait. The center began as a traditional souq but as the city has undergone investment it has expanded into a ...
It was named after Sheikh Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, 10th ruler of Kuwait. Al-Asimah Governorate: KW-KU 1962 568,567 175 It houses most of Kuwait's financial and business centres such as the Kuwait Stock Exchange. Farwaniya Governorate: KW-FA 1988 1,169,312 204 It is the most populated governorate. Hawalli Governorate: KW-HA 1962 939,792 85
The tower is located across from the Al Shaheed Park, the building area is 4,293.6 m 2 (46,216 sq ft). [6] The form of Al Tijaria Tower (also known as the Kuwait Trade Center) is inspired by a spiral or helix. The body of the tower “twists” by 80 degrees as it climbs from the ground level to the top-most occupied floor.
The postal code refers to the post office at which the receiver's P. O. Box is located. Kiribati: KI – no codes - Korea, North: KP – no codes - Korea, South: 2015-08-01 KR: NNNNN Previously NNN-NNN (1988~2015), NNN or NNN-NN (1970~1988) Kosovo: XK: NNNNN A separate postal code for Kosovo was introduced by the UNMIK postal administration in ...
Al Hamra Tower. The Al Hamra Tower is a skyscraper in Kuwait City, Kuwait. It is the tallest building in Kuwait. Construction of the skyscraper started in 2005. [2] It was completed in 2011. [2] Designed by architectural firms Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and Ramshir and Callison, it is the tallest curved concrete skyscraper in the world, and the ...
ISO 3166-2:KW is the entry for Kuwait in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1 . Currently for Kuwait, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for 6 ...