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Fun fact 1 about Kuwait City

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Kuwait City was a small fishing village in the early to mid 1700s.

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Kuwait City

Kuwait

Country
Kuwait
Population
2.4M
Coordinates
29.37, 47.98
134th most populous city in the world

Kuwait City is the capital and largest city of Kuwait. Located at the heart of the country on the south shore of Kuwait Bay on the Persian Gulf, it is the political, cultural and economic primate city of the emirate, being home to the headquarters of most Kuwaiti corporations and the entirety of its banking system.

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