Koweït
Koweït is a country of the
Middle East, located in the east of the Arabique peninsula and giving on
the Arabo-Persique gulf.
Koweït is a primarily desert country. The
temperature can reach nearly 50 °C during the dry season, and precipitations
are very weak.
Koweïtiens represent only one third of the
population, made up essentially of immigrant workers, in particular Asian
(Indians and Pakistani).
Koweït is one of the richest countries of the world. The hydrocarbons
constitute the only natural resources of the country, but they are abundant: the crude oil reserves allow a one approximately 150 years duration
exploitation. Industry koweïtienne rests mainly on the extraction and the
refining of oil. However, at the time of the first war of
the Gulf (started in 1991 after the
invasion of the country by Iraq, in August 1990), of the hundreds of oil well
were destroyed.
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Koweït
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Population
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2,51 million inhabitants in 2007
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Capital
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Koweït (agglomeration, 1 222 374 inhabitants in 2003)
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Surface
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17 818 km²
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Official
language
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Arabic
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Currency
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dinar koweïtien
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TO GO FURTHER
? the Middle East
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