Kuwait

Facts

What the numbers say about Kuwait

• Russia, the largest place listed, is 972× the size of Kuwait.
• Kuwait ranks 129th of 237 by population but only 157th of 239 by area: it holds more people than its size suggests.
• At 255 people per km², Kuwait is the 26th most densely populated of the 185 places over 1,000 km²; the median is 72 per km².
• On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 29°N is drawn about 1.3× too large in area, so Kuwait looks bigger there than it is.
• Laid out flat, Kuwait's main territory stretches about 174 km north to south and 185 km east to west.
• Wikidata's official figure of 17,800 km² agrees with our measured area of 17,500 km², to within 2%.

How Kuwait measures up

Kuwait holds 0.1% of the land area and 0.1% of the people of the 51 countries listed for Asia. In Western Asia it is the 13th largest of 19.

Where Kuwait sits

• Kuwait's centre lies at 29.3°N, 47.6°E, in the northern and eastern hemispheres, about 3,260 km from the equator.
• Its main territory spans 29°N to 30°N, about 170 km from its southern edge to its northern.

If Kuwait had other densities

• At Bangladesh's density of 1,252 people per km², Kuwait would have 21.9 million people. It has 4.5 million.
• At Canada's density of 3.7 people per km², Kuwait would have 65,000 people. It has 4.5 million.
• At the median density of the places listed, 72 per km², it would have 1.3 million.

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