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The State of Kuwait (Arabic: دولة الكويت‎) is a sovereign emirate on the coast of the Persian Gulf, enclose by Saudi Arabia to the south and Iraq to the north and west. The name is a diminutive of an Arabic word meaning "fortress built near water." It has a population of 3.1 million and an area of 17,818 km². Kuwait is a constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary system of government and Kuwait City serves as its political and economic capital.

Trivia about kuwait

  • When Iraq invaded this neighbor, its emir, Sheik Jabir Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, fled to Saudi Arabia
  • This Persian Gulf nation gets its name from kut, an Arabic word for "fort"
  • As the leader of this nation, Middle Eastern emir Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah welcomed the U.S. invasion of Iraq
  • The Gulf War was triggered by the occupation of this country
  • This country is the invadee in the 1990 headline seen here
  • (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map of Iraq on the monitor.) Though Iraq already had 18 perfectly good provinces, Saddam wanted a 19th, and on August 28, 1990, declared this was it, leading to war
  • The neighbors of this country include Saudi Arabia & oh-oh, Iraq
  • One of the smallest PECs is this country that was invaded in 1990 for its oil
  • In 1990 Iraq invaded & tried to absorb this much smaller country it called its "19th province"
  • In the '50s Arafat worked in an engineering firm in this country, the invasion of which triggered the Gulf War
  • The majority of the 2 million people in this nation on the Arabian coast are Sunni Muslims
  • Ironically, during Iraq's war with Iran in the 1980s, this small country on its southern border provided loans & support
  • It's the country Iraqi nationalists call Iraq's 19th province
  • (I'm Julie Chen of The Early Show on CBS.) In March 2003 I reported from this country from which the U.S. & British ground attack on Iraq was launched
  • The U.S. launched Operation Desert Shield soon after Iraq's August 2, 1990 invasion of this country
  • Black smoke rises from oil fires in this country in a photo taken from space in 1991
  • After Saddam Hussein invaded this country, the U.S. attacked Iraq
  • In 1991 retreating Iraqi troops looted this country & set fire to hundreds of its oil wells
  • The Persian Gulf War of 1991 was fought mainly in Iraq & this oil-rich nation next door
  • The name of this small oil-rich state at the head of the Persian Gulf means "little fort"
  • It's the foreign capital city occupied by Iraqi forces in 1990
  • In 1961, this country was granted independence, & Iraq argued it had been separated illegitimately
  • (Kelly reports one last time.) This teakwood gate was presented to George H.W. Bush by the emir of this country in appreciation for helping the country reclaim its freedom

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