Map of Kuwait

Kuwait is located in Asia. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 29.5° N, 45.8° E. It shares land borders with 2 countries — Iraq and Saudi Arabia — and also has its own coastline. Within Asia, a continent of 49 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean, Kuwait is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Kuwait shares land frontiers with the following 2 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Kuwait covers about 17,818 km² (6,880 sq mi). That makes it the 153rd-largest country in the world by area and the 40th-largest in Asia, larger by area than 9 of the continent’s 49 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 4,881,254, the 127th-largest in the world and the 39th-largest in Asia, accounting for about 0.1% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Kuwait has an average population density of about 274 people per km². Among the 49 countries of Asia it stands 39th by population and 40th by area.

The seat of government is Kuwait City, and the official currency is the Kuwaiti dinar (KWD, د.ك), and the main official language is Arabic. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC+03:00.

Kuwait carries the ISO country codes KW and KWT, dials on the international calling code +965 and uses the .kw internet domain.

Kuwait shares its land borders with 2 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are Iraq (capital Baghdad, about 46,118,793 people) and Saudi Arabia (capital Riyadh, about 35,300,280 people).

By area, Kuwait is larger than 0 of these neighbours and smaller than 2 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 29.5° N, 45.8° E and opens at zoom level 7, framing Kuwait within Asia. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Kuwait City. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Kuwait lies about 3,274 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

Kuwait keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+03:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +03:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Kuwaiti dinar (KWD, د.ك).

The official language is Arabic, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +965 and websites commonly use the .kw internet domain.

In short, Kuwait is a coastal country in Asia, sharing land borders with 2 countries. Its capital is Kuwait City. Kuwait has a population of about 4,881,254 and covers around 17,818 km² (6,880 sq mi), ranking it 127th in the world by population and 153rd by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Kuwait.

The flag of Kuwait is composed of three equal horizontal bands of green, white and red, with a black trapezium superimposed on the hoist side of the field. This trapezium has its base on the hoist end and spans about one-fourth the width of the field.

The flag of Kuwait is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.