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   Note: This section last updated 14th March 2021

   1,234.45

(where . indicates the decimal separator and , the thousands separator)

   ۱٫۲۳۴٬۴۵

(where ٬ indicates the decimal separator and ٫ the thousands separator)

   Note: This section last updated 6th May 2021

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The national language is Standard Arabic . About 500 000 people speak Gulf Spoken Arabic . There are 3 537 speakers of Mehri .

Kuwaiti company types include:

   Joint Liability Partnership
   Joint Stock Company (also known as a Kuwaiti Private Shareholding Company (KSC))
   Joint Venture
   Limited Liability Company (WLL)
   Mixed Liability Partnership

   Comprehensive tables of these strings can be acquired – see http:www.grcdi.nl/addresses.htm 

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Kuwaiti streets are usually numbered rather than named, so addresses consist of street numbers, area numbers, block numbers and villa/house numbers. The postal code is also often found written after the settlement name. The suburb name is often included after the city name, as in the above examples.

   A table containing information about the relevant position of elements within address blocks can be acquired 

Postal codes consist of a block of 5 digits. The first indicates the sector, the second the zone and the last three the post office box, large user or delivery address.

   Metadata containing postal code formatting rules, exceptions and regular expressions can be acquired 

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   Note: This section last updated 26th November 2015

Refer to Exonyms in Kuwait for full lists of place names in Kuwait in other languages.

   Alternate place name forms/postal code tables can be acquired at http://www.grcdi.nl/settlements.htm 

   Other language place name data can be acquired at http://www.grcdi.nl/otherlanguageplace.htm 

Kuwait has 6 governorates (muhafazat, singular - muhafazah). They are:

    Al Ahmadi 
    Al ’Asimah 
    Al Farwaniyah 
    Al Jahra’ 
    Hawalli 
    Mubarak al Kabir 

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   Note: This section last updated 17th October 2021

Kuwaiti telephone numbers have no area codes. Geographic subscriber numbers have between 7 and 8 digits. Mobile numbers have 8 digits and commence with 41, 5, 6 or 9.

   Tables of telephone number information/formats can be acquired – see http://www.grcdi.nl/telephone.htm