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Kuwait International Airport 29°13′36″N 047°58′48″E / 29.22667°N 47.98000°E / 29.22667; 47.98000 ( Kuwait International Military airports
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.
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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.
Farwaniya (Arabic: الفروانية, Gulf Arabic: /ɪlfərwaːniːjə/) is an area of Farwaniya Governorate, located within the agglomeration of Kuwait City, Kuwait.The Ghazali Expressway passes to the west of the district and the road leading to Kuwait International Airport to the east, both roads in a north–south direction.
On 12 December 1983, the airport was one of the targets of the 1983 Kuwait bombings. On 2 August 1990, British Airways Flight 149 carrying 349 passengers landed at Kuwait International Airport just four hours after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, leading to the capture of the passengers and crew. The Boeing 747-100 aircraft was looted by the ...
Salmiya (Arabic: السالمية, romanized: As-Sālmīya(h)) is an area in Hawalli Governorate in Kuwait.. Salmiya is administratively divided into 12 blocks. The blocks located closer to the interior of the district tend to be mostly residential, while those located beside the Persian Gulf coastline have a great deal of commercial and up-scale residential real estate.
As of 2016, Kuwait has a population of 4.2 million people; 1.3 million are Kuwaitis and 2.9 million are expatriates. [1] Oil reserves were discovered in 1938. From 1946 to 1982, the country underwent large-scale modernization.