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Kuwait (nation) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 29 30 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 29.5000 decimal degrees |
| Long: 047 45 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 47.7500 decimal degrees |
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Note: Important oil-producing state on a wedge of desert territory between Iraq and Saudi Arabia; had important civilization by 3rd millennium BCE; was colonized by Greece, passed to Seleucids, then Romans; today ruled by descendants of dynasty founded in 18th century; official language is Arabic, though English is also widely spoken. |
Names: |
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| Al Kuwayt (preferred,C,V,Arabic (transliterated)-P,U,N)
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| Dawlat al Kuwayt (C,V,O,Arabic (transliterated),U,N)
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| Kuwayt, Dawlat al (C,V,Arabic (transliterated),U,N)
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| Al-Kuwayt (C,V,Arabic (transliterated),U,N)
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| Kuwayt (C,V,Somali)
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| Kuwayt (Arabic (transliterated),U,N)
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| Dawlat al-Kuwayt (C,V,Arabic (transliterated),U,N)
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| Kuwait, Dawlat al- (C,V)
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| Dowlat al Kuwait (C,V,Arabic (transliterated),U,N)
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| Al Kuwait (C,V)
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| Al Kuweit (C,V)
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| Kuwait (C,O,English-P,U,N)
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| Kuwait (Tagalog)
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| Kuwait (Vietnamese)
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| Kuwait (Ilocano)
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| Kuwait (Indonesian)
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| Kuwait (Magyar (Hungarian))
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| Kuwait (Danish)
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| Kuwait (Norwegian (Nynorsk))
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| Kuwait (Finnish)
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| Kuwait (Swedish)
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| Kuwait (Portuguese)
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| Kuwait (Spanish-P,U,N)
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| Kuwait (Catalan)
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| Kuwait (Basque)
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| Kuwait (Aragonese)
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| Kuwait (Asturian)
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| Kuwait (German)
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| Kuwait (Low German)
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| Kuwait (Galician)
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| Kuwait (Italian)
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| Kuwait (Greenlandic)
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| Kuwait (Norwegian (Bokmål))
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| Kuwait (Romansh)
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| Kuwait (Upper Sorbian)
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| Kuwait (Malay (macrolanguage))
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| Kuwait (Norwegian)
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| Kuwait (Pampanga)
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| Kuwait (Northern Sami)
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| Kuwait (Shona)
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| Kuwait (Swahili (generic))
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| Kuwait (Ido)
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| Kuwait (Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association))
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| State of Kuwait (C,O,English,U,N)
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| Koweït (C,O,French-P,U,N)
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| État du Koweït (C,O,French,U,N)
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| Estado de Kuwait (C,O,Spanish,U,N)
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| Koeweit (C,O,Dutch-P,U,N)
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| Koeweit (Afrikaans)
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| Koeweit (Limburgan)
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| Koweit (C,O,English,U,N)
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| Koweit (Breton)
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| Kuweit (C,O,English,U,N)
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| Kuweit (Romanian)
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| ا ىًوتً (C,V,Arabic-P,U)
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| دولة ا ىًوتً (C,V,O,Arabic,U)
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| Кувейт (C,O,Bulgarian)
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| Кувейт (Russian-P,U)
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| Кувейт (Ukrainian)
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| Кувейт (Belarusian)
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| Государство Кувейт (C,O,Russian,U)
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| 科威特 (C,O,Chinese-P,U)
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| 科威特国 (C,O,Chinese,U)
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| KWT (C,O,ISO3L)
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| KW (C,O,ISO2L)
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| ISO414 (C,O,ISO3N)
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| KU (C,O,FIPS)
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| Shaikhdom of Kuwait (C,V)
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| Kuwaiti (C,O,English,U,A)
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| Kuwaiti (Kikuyu)
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| Kuwaiti (Swahili (generic))
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| Ciwait (C,U,Welsh)
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| Cô-oét (C,U,Vietnamese)
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| Coweit (C,U,Welsh)
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| Cuáit (C,U,Irish Gaelic)
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| Cubhait (C,U,Scots Gaelic)
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| Cuvaitum (C,U,Latin)
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| Dawlat al-Kuwait (C,U)
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| i-Kuwait (C,U,Zulu)
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| Khuweiti (C,U,North Ndebele)
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| Kôeity (C,U,Malagasy)
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| Kovätän (C,U,Volapük)
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| Koveyit (C,U,Arpitan)
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| Kowait (C,U,Occitan)
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| Kowet (C,U,Haitian (Haitian Creole))
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| Koweti (C,U,Rundi)
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| Koweti (Lingala)
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| Koweti (Luba-Katanga)
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| Köwêti (C,U,Sangho)
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| Koweyt (C,U,Cornish)
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| Kowɛti (C,U,Bambara)
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| Kueiti (C,U,Tonga (Tonga Islands))
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| Kuvait (C,U,Magyar (Hungarian))
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| Kuvait (Faroese)
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| Kuvajt (C,U,Croatian)
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| Kuvajt (Bosnian)
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| Kuvajt (Slovak)
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| Kuvajt (Slovene)
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| Kuvajt (Albanian)
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| Kuvajt (Czech)
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| Kuvajti (C,U,Albanian)
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| Kuvajto (C,U,Esperanto)
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| Kúveit (C,U,Icelandic)
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| Kuveit (C,U,Estonian)
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| Kuveita (C,U,Latvian)
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| Kuveitas (C,U,Lithuanian)
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| Kuveyt (C,U,Azerbaijani)
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| Kuveyt (Turkish)
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| Kuwait - الكويت (C,U,Galician)
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| Kuwait nutome (C,U,Ewe)
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| Kuwajt (C,U,Maltese)
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| Kûweit (C,U,Western Frisian)
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| Kuwejt (C,U,Polish)
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| Kuwete (C,U,Akan)
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| Kuweti (C,U,Ganda (Ugandan language))
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| Kuweyt (C,U,Kurdish)
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| Kuweyti (C,U,Fulah)
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| Kwiyat (C,U,Hausa)
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| Orílẹ́ède Kuweti (C,U,Yoruba)
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| Quvayt (C,U,Uzbek)
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| کویت (C,U,Urdu)
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| کویت (Persian-Farsi)
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| ክዌት (C,U,Tigrinya)
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| ክዌት (Amharic)
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| კუვეიტი (C,U,Georgian)
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| कुवैत (C,U,Marathi)
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| कुवैत (Sanskrit)
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| कुवैत (Hindi)
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| குவைத்து (C,U,Tamil)
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| 쿠웨이트 (C,U,Korean)
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| คูเวต (C,U,Thai)
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| クウェート (C,U,Japanese)
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| الكويت (C,U,Arabic)
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| ኩዌት (C,U,Amharic)
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| ܟܘܘܝܬ (C,U,Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE))
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| کویټ (C,U,Pashto)
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| Κουβέιτ (C,U,Greek)
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| כווית (C,U,Hebrew )
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| Қувайт (C,U,Tajik)
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| ประเทศคูเวต (C,U,Thai)
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| ქუვეითი (C,U,Georgian)
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| כוויית (C,U,Hebrew )
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| Кувајт (C,U,Serbian)
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| Кувајт (Macedonian)
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| دَوْلَة اَلْكُوَيْت (C,U,Arabic)
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| Քուվեյթ (C,U,Armenian)
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| ཀུ་ཝེཊ (C,U,Dzongkha)
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| គុយវ៉ែត (C,U,Khmer)
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| كۇۋەيت (C,U,Uyghur)
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| ຄູເວດ (C,U,Lao)
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| ಕುವೈತ್ (C,U,Kannada)
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| කුවේටය (C,U,Sinhala)
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| కువైట్ (C,U,Telugu)
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| କୁଏତ୍ (C,U,Odia)
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| কুয়েত (C,U,Bengali)
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| कुवेत (C,U,Marathi)
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| कुवेत (Nepali)
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| કુવૈત (C,U,Gujarati)
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| ကူဝိတ် (C,U,Burmese)
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| കുവൈറ്റ് (C,U,Malayalam)
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| کوەیت (C,U,Kurdish)
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| ཀུ་ཝེད་རྒྱལ་ཁབ། (C,U,Tibetan)
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| Kuwait, Shaikhdom of (H,O)
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| Kuwait, Sheikhdom of (H,O)
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| Sheikhdom of Kuwait (H,V)
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Asia (continent) (P) |
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Place Types: |
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| nation (preferred, C) |
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originally under British protection, since 1914; as independent of Britain, since June, 1961 |
| primary political unit (C) |
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| independent sovereign nation (C) |
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| independent political entity (C) |
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Related geographic places: |
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| capital is .... |
Kuwait City .......... (inhabited place) |
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(World, Asia, Kuwait, Al ‘Āşimah) [1082419] |
| member of .... |
Arab League .......... (organization) |
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(World) [7000153] |
| member of .... |
United Nations .......... (organization) |
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(World) [7029605] |
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joined organization in 1963 |
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