Travel & technology
Electric power
- Plug shape
- Voltage
- 240V, 50Hz
Phone dialing
- Code to call Kuwait
- +965
What every visitor should know about Kuwait:
- Money
- The currency is the Kuwaiti dinar (KWD). 1 KWD is worth about US$3.50, or €2.47.
- Crime
- CrimeSafe Travel Score™: 5 out of 5 (Very safe)
- Capital
- Kuwait
- Tap water
- Safe in cities, but bottled water is advisable in rural areas.
Kuwait facts and figures:
People
- Population
- 2,691,158
- Language
- Arabic (official), English widely spoken
- Ethnicity
- Kuwaiti 45%, other Arab 35%, South Asian 9%, Iranian 4%, other 7%
Economy
- GDP
- US$60,800 (per capita)