Kuwait Travel Guide

Kuwait, a small country in the Middle East, is an ideal destination for a relaxed holiday in the Arabian Peninsula. Surrounded by the Persian Gulf on the southeast, it shares border with Saudi Arabia on the southwest and Iraq on the north and west. A vast majority of natives of Kuwait are descendents of the Al-Anisa and the Al-Utub tribes, who migrated here from central Arabia. It came under the influence of the Ottoman Empire and subsequently the British after the World War I. It became a fully independent country in 1961. In 1990, Iraq made an unsuccessful attempt to annex Kuwait, causing much destruction to its economy and infrastructure. Kuwait, whose economy once depended upon...

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