Key facts
- Country
- Kuwait
- Governorate
- Ahmadi Governorate
- Total
- 60 km (23 sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+3 ( AST )
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- suburb
- Country
- Kuwait
- Located in
- Al Ahmadi Governorate
- Population
- 30991
- Area
- 21.7
- Elevation
- 109
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
- Capital of
- Al Ahmadi Governorate
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- native label
- الأحمدي
- twinned administrative body
- Sétif
- Commons category
- Al Ahmadi, Kuwait
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Encyclopedic overview
Al Ahmadi (Arabic: الأحمدي) is the second largest city in Kuwait after the capital Kuwait City, and the capital of Al Ahmadi Governorate. It was founded in 1946 with the discovery of oil there. It contains the headquarters for the Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) and Kuwait Oil Company (KOC), with many of its refineries located there.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Al Ahmadi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.