Kuwait
Names and codes: GeoNames, CC BY 4.0 · Boundary: Natural Earth, public domain · Refresh date not recorded · Sources and licenses
Codes and identifiers
- ISO alpha-2
- KW
- ISO alpha-3
- KWT
- ISO numeric
- 414
- FIPS 10-4
- KU
- GeoNames ID
- 285570
Key facts
- Capital
- Kuwait City
- Area
- 17,820 km²
- Population
- 4,137,309
- Currency
- Dinar (KWD)
- Calling code
- +965
- Top-level domain
- .kw
- Official languages
- ar-KW,en
Continent
- Name
- Asia
- Code
- AS
- In this dataset
- 51 countries
Location
- Latitude
- 29.5
- Longitude
- 47.75
- Min latitude
- 28.53350494400003
- Min longitude
- 46.53243575000005
- Max latitude
- 30.09821563700008
- Max longitude
- 48.432781227000135
Boundary
The API call behind this page
Request
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
"https://geosearch.dev/v1/countries/KW?fields=iso_code,iso3_code,name,capital,population,area_sq_km,currency_code,continent_code"Response
{
"data": {
"area_sq_km": 17820,
"capital": "Kuwait City",
"continent_code": "AS",
"currency_code": "KWD",
"iso3_code": "KWT",
"iso_code": "KW",
"name": "Kuwait",
"population": 4137309
}
}Formatted for reading. The API returns the same JSON on one line.
Other endpoints for this country
/v1/countries/KW/regions/v1/cities?country=KW/v1/postal-codes?country=KW/v1/timezones?country=KW
Name in other languages
- Arabic
- الكويت
- Chinese
- 科威特
- English
- Kuwait
- French
- Koweït
- German
- Kuwait
- Hindi
- कुवैत
- Italian
- Kuwait
- Japanese
- クウェート
- Korean
- 쿠웨이트
- Portuguese
- Kuwait
- Russian
- Кувейт
- Spanish
- Kuwait
- Total language variants
- 141
The API returns any of them with ?lang=.
Time zones
| IANA ID | UTC offset | DST offset |
|---|---|---|
| Asia/Kuwait | UTC+03:00 | UTC+03:00 |
Postal code format
- Format
- #####
- Pattern
^(\d{5})$
First-level administrative regions
- Muḩāfaz̧at al Farwānīyah
- Muḩāfaz̧at Ḩawallī
- Al Asimah Governorate
- Muḩāfaz̧at al Aḩmadī
- Muḩāfaz̧at al Jahrā’
- Muḩāfaz̧at Mubārak al Kabīr
6 of 6 shown, largest first
Largest cities
| City | Population |
|---|---|
| Al Aḩmadī | 637,411 |
| Ḩawallī | 164,212 |
| As Sālimīyah | 147,649 |
| Şabāḩ as Sālim | 139,163 |
| Al Farwānīyah | 86,525 |
| Al Faḩāḩīl | 68,290 |
| Kuwait City | 60,064 |
| Ar Rumaythīyah | 58,135 |
| Ar Riqqah | 52,068 |
| Salwá | 40,945 |
Coverage in this dataset
- Cities
- 127
- First-level regions
- 6
- Postal codes
- 0
- Name languages
- 141
- Boundary polygon
- Yes
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