Kuwait Governorates

Kuwait is a small country at the head of the Persian Gulf, and almost everyone in it lives in a few miles of coast around Kuwait City. Its six governorates (muhafazat) are the units its government, its census and its addresses are organised around, and they cover the country without a gap.

The quiz: Name to place, on the map
Grouped by: The Kuwait City area, and the north and south
In the game: 6 governorates

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What you are looking at

The governorates of today, named in their usual English spelling. Four of them are small and packed along the coast of Kuwait Bay: Al Asimah, the capital governorate, with Hawalli, Al Farwaniya and Mubarak Al-Kabeer around it. The other two take up almost all the land. Al Jahra is the large northern and western governorate, which also holds the islands of Bubiyan and Warba, and Al Ahmadi fills the south down to the Saudi border.

The groups are not an official classification. They are the cluster of small governorates around the capital and the two large ones beyond it, a way to learn the map a piece at a time.

How to place one

Start with the bay. Kuwait City sits on the south shore of Kuwait Bay, and Al Asimah is the governorate that holds it.
Look at what surrounds it. Hawalli lies to the south east along the coast, Al Farwaniya inland to the south, and Mubarak Al-Kabeer between Hawalli and the sea.
Go beyond the city. Al Jahra is everything to the north and west, and Al Ahmadi everything to the south.