Key facts
- Etymology
- < Ancient Greek φυλάκιο(ν) fylakio(n) "outpost"
- Location
- Persian Gulf
- Length
- 14 km (8.7 mi)
- Width
- 6.5 km (4.04 mi)
- Highest point
- Rās Sibīcha
- Governorate
- Capital
- Population
- 147 (2011)
- Time zone
- Arabia Standard Time ( UTC+3 )
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- island
- Official name
- جزيرة فيلكا
- Country
- Kuwait
- Located in
- Capital Governorate
- Population
- 5832
- Area
- 43
- Elevation
- 10
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
- Body of water
- Persian Gulf
- Image
- Failaka Island 2.JPG
- Width
- 5.0
- Length
- 13.8
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- Commons category
- Failaka Island
- native label
- فيلكا
- heritage designation
- Tentative World Heritage Site
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Encyclopedic overview
Failaka Island (Arabic: فيلكا Faylakah / Fēlaka; Kuwaiti Arabic:فيلچه /fe:lɪt͡ʃə/) is a Kuwaiti Island in the Persian Gulf. The island is 20 km off the coast of Kuwait City in the Persian Gulf.
Failaka Island is located 50 km southeast of the spot where the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers empty into the Persian Gulf. For thousands of years, the island has been a strategic prize to control the lucrative trade that passed up and down the Persian Gulf. Failaka Island has been a strategic location since the rise of the Sumerian city-state of Ur. Due to its strategic location, Failaka Island has been continuously inhabited since antiquity. Up until the Gulf War, it was the longest continuously inhabited place in Kuwait.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Failaka Island” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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