Administrative Division of Kuwait: Governorates and Neighborhood Districts

Contents: Governorates and Neighborhood Districts

The population of the governorates and neighborhood districts of Kuwait.

Name	Native	Status	Population estimate 1990-06-30	Population estimate 1995-06-30	Population estimate 2000-06-30	Population estimate 2005-06-30	Population estimate 2010-06-30	Population estimate 2012-06-30
Al-Aḥmadī [Al Ahmadi]	الاحمدي	Governorate	338,162	320,327	360,210	520,443	682,582	742,011	o
Abū al-Ḥaṣāniyah [Abu Hasaniya]	ابو الحصانيه	District	...	...	...	120	242	511
Abū Ḥulayfah [Abu Halifa]	ابوحليفه	District	23,594	22,400	23,473	31,279	40,254	42,287	o
Al-Aḥmadī - Gharb al-Aḥmadī [West Ahmadi City]	غرب الاحمدي	District	280	1,128	1,238	1,173	1,703	1,891	o
Al-Aḥmadī - Janūb al-Aḥmadī [South Ahmadi City]	جنوب الاحمدي	District	9,680	7,134	6,928	7,492	8,032	8,098	o
Al-Aḥmadī - Shamāl al-Aḥmadī [North Ahmadi City]	شمال الاحمدي	District	4,898	3,676	3,431	3,135	3,641	3,692	o
Al-Aḥmadī - Sharq al-Aḥmadī [East Ahmadi City]	شرق الاحمدي	District	15,246	11,403	13,109	14,362	15,590	16,193	o
Al-Aḥmadī - Wusṭ al-Aḥmadī [Central Ahmadi City]	وسط الاحمدي	District	2,415	1,135	1,174	1,673	2,116	1,930	o
Al-E'qīlah [Eqaila]	العقيله	District	5,931	597	518	866	5,110	6,514
Al-Finṭās [Funtas]	الفنطاس	District	16,045	14,724	18,989	28,287	35,243	37,066	o
Al-Fuḥayḥīl [Fahaheel]	الفحيحيل	District	58,684	51,876	56,323	71,454	86,466	90,145	o
Ali Ṣabāḥ al-Sālem [Ali Sabah al Salem]	علي صباح السالم	District	...	...	...	26,249	45,613	48,685
Al-Janūbiyah	الجنوبيه الجواخير	District	...	1	63	77	41	43
Al-Mahbūlah [Mahboula]	المهبوله	District	8,720	9,291	11,430	34,657	59,468	78,846	o
Al-Manqaf [Mangaf]	المنقف	District	24,231	27,127	34,525	61,749	92,949	105,675	o
Al-Maqwa' [Magwa]	المقوع	District	70	2	0	2	0	1
Al-Wafrah [Wafra]	الوفره	District	6,927	854	166	118	108	104	o
Al-Wafrah al-Jadīdah [New Wafra]	الوفره الجديده	District	...	...	5	432	1,174	1,480
Ar-Riqqah [Reqa]	الرقه	District	37,599	39,616	41,238	48,469	52,713	52,613	o
Ash-Shua'ībah	الشعيبه	District	1,893	1,865	1,471	1,293	2,004	1,571
Ash-Shua'ībah aṣ-Ṣinā'iyah [Shuaiba Industrial Area]	الشعيبه الصناعيه (غ)	District	...	...	1,271	4,701	17,461	21,584
Aṣ-Ṣabāḥīyah [Sabahiya]	الصباحيه	District	70,037	61,954	67,562	74,249	81,889	82,035	o
Aẓ-Ẓahar [Daher]	الظهر	District	23,332	26,095	29,019	35,680	39,991	40,714
Az-Zūr [Al Zour]	الزور	District	6,156	2,780	3,288	3,410	3,918	3,796
Bir Maḥāfẓah al-Aḥmadī	بر محافظة الاحمدي	District	99	41	76	92	57	58
Ḍāḥiyah Jāber al-'Alī [West Funtas]	ضاحية جابر العلي	District	9,727	22,112	25,933	37,473	43,923	45,697	o
Fahad al-Āḥmad [Fahad Al Ahmad]	فهد الاحمد	District	...	...	...	1,845	9,467	14,370
Hadiyah [Hadiya]	هديه	District	5,540	6,919	11,582	17,808	21,679	23,131	o
Janūb aṣ-Ṣabāḥīyah [South Sabahiya]	جنوب الصباحيه	District	3	3	7	5	4	5
Mazār' al-Wafrah [Wafra Agricultural]	مزارع الوفرة	District	4,329	4,817	5,956	8,364	8,838	10,026
Mīnā' 'Abdāllah [Mina Abdullah]	ميناء عبدالله	District	1,504	1,995	846	2,689	1,867	1,950
Rajim Khashmān	رجم خشمان	District	...	...	...	13	14	25
Shālīhāt aḍ-Ḍabā'iyah	شاليهات الضباعيه	District	...	...	...	31	22	18
Shālīhāt al-Julaiya'ah [Julaia]	شاليهات الجليعه	District	...	...	...	759	420	289
Shālīhāt al-Khīrān	شاليهات الخيران	District	219	273	266	355	488	884
Shālīhāt an-Nuwaīṣīb	شاليهات النويصيب	District	516	397	275	5	4	3
Shālīhāt az-Zūr	شاليهات الزور	District	...	...	...	...	...	5
Shālīhāt Bnaīder [Bnaider]	شاليهات بنيدر	District	...	...	...	9	4	13
Shālīhāt Mīnā' 'Abdāllah [Shalehat Mina Abdullah]	شاليهات ميناء عبدالله	District	...	...	...	13	13	15
Wārah	واره	District	487	112	48	55	56	48
Al-Farwānīyah [Farwaniyah]	الفروانية	Governorate	374,008	376,991	438,913	802,151	935,900	1,003,003	o
Abdāllah Mubārak aṣ-Ṣabāḥ [Abdullah Al Mubarak Al Sabah]	عبدالله مبارك الصباح	District	...	...	...	1,672	35,311	41,220	o
Al-Andalus [Andalus]	الاندلس	District	17,365	20,052	27,471	37,989	45,241	46,939
Al-'Ārḍiyah [Ardiya]	العارضيه	District	11,358	38,208	41,398	50,694	56,847	58,323	o
Al-'Ārḍiyah 4 [Ardiya 4]	العارضيه (4)	District	159	276	305	310	...	4	o
Al-'Ārḍiyah 6 [Ardiya 6]	العارضيه (6)	District	921	567	513	613	569	535	o
Al-'Ārḍiyah al-Ḥerfiyah [Ardiya Al Herafia]	العارضيه الحرفيه	District	...	...	...	...	...	...	o
Al-Farwānīyah [Farwaniya]	الفروانيه	District	84,221	67,261	83,778	124,475	193,958	216,517	o
Al-Firdaws [Firdous]	الفردوس	District	47,422	47,275	49,569	58,725	63,273	64,283	o
Al-'Mariyah [Omariya]	العمريه	District	19,735	17,519	17,352	19,470	19,145	19,265
Al-Maṭār al-Dūlī	المطار الدولي	District	227	203	156	222	278	226
Al-Raī [Rai]	الري	District	7,829	7,102	6,405	8,088	6,949	7,798
An-Nahḍah	النهضه	District	...	...	...	1,092	4,762	6,009
Ar-Rābiyah [Rabia]	الرابيه	District	18,088	17,528	18,297	20,539	21,094	21,418
Ar-Raḥāb [Rahab]	الرحاب	District	3,031	7,200	8,873	14,552	16,639	16,619
Ar-Raq'ay [Regay]	الرقعي	District	11,059	12,238	16,121	25,615	29,791	32,935	o
Āshbīliyah [Ishbeelia]	اشبيليه	District	...	...	...	1,536	10,318	13,946
Ḍajīj aṭ-Ṭārāt	ضجيج الطائرات	District	202	138	96	130	79	71
Khīṭān [Kheetan]	خيطان	District	...	...	...	181,934	126,412	134,323	o
Qalīb ash-Shuyūkh [Jaleeb Al Shuyoukh]	جليب الشيوخ	District	146,674	132,281	150,643	222,468	265,984	281,665	o
Ṣabāḥ an-Nāṣr [Sabah Al Nasser]	صباح الناصر	District	5,717	9,143	17,936	32,027	39,250	40,907
Al-Jahrā' [Jahra]	الجهراء	Governorate	276,852	244,540	279,349	367,747	454,836	480,322	o
Al-A'bdilī [Abdilee]	العبدلي	District	3,836	1,792	2,855	5,982	6,481	7,432
Al-Āṭrāf	الاطراف	District	...	2	7	3	1	1
Al-Baḥyaṭ	البحيث	District	0	0	0	0	0	0
Al-Jahrā' [Jahra]	الجهراء	District	21,547	17,734	23,260	37,353	49,490	51,706	o
Al-Jahrā' aṣ-Ṣinā'iyah [Jahra Industrial Area]	الجهراء الصناعيه	District	...	49	300	771	703	710
Al-Maṭlā'	المطلاع	District	337	169	89	63	48	52
Al-Qaīrawān [Quirawan]	القيروان	District	...	...	...	642	11,467	14,415
Al-Qaṣr [Qasser]	القصر	District	54,128	44,838	49,667	58,229	60,491	60,496
Al-'Uyawn [Oyoun]	العيون	District	16,157	23,763	29,541	38,281	42,400	42,862
Al-Wāḥah [Waha]	الواحه	District	37,409	33,314	34,983	41,893	43,405	43,053
Ām Āl'īsh	ام العيش	District	5	279	79	73	51	27
Āmghrah aṣ-Ṣinā'iyah [Amgara Industrial Area]	امغرة الصناعيه	District	...	...	8,966	18,250	13,075	13,026
An-Na'īm [Na'eem]	النعيم	District	20,489	7,472	5,990	11,483	15,194	15,935
An-Nasīm [Naseem]	النسيم	District	3,676	10,436	14,297	20,042	22,798	23,411
Ar-Rūḍtīn	الروضتين	District	211	10	40	63	80	87
As-Sālmī	السالمي	District	595	374	421	488	559	552
Aṣ-Ṣubiyah [Subiya]	الصبيه	District	2	7	6	1,156	97	74
As-Sukrāb	السكراب	District	912	684	...	...	...	...
Aṣ-Ṣulaybīyah ash-Sha'abyah [Sulaibiah Shaabia]	الصليبيه الشعبيه	District	54,052	48,493	50,945	57,481	62,263	62,381
Aṣ-Ṣulaybīyah aṣ-Ṣinā'iyah 1 [Sulaibiah Industrial Area 1]	الصليبيه الصناعيه (1)	District	2,069	1,122	828	1,108	1,309	1,445
Aṣ-Ṣulaybīyah aṣ-Ṣinā'iyah 2 [Sulaibiah Industrial Area 2]	الصليبيه الصناعيه (2)	District	738	140	191	6,055	5,278	4,694
Aṣ-Ṣulaybīyah aṣ-Ṣinā'iyah 3 [Sulaibiah Industrial Area 3]	الصليبيه الصناعيه (3)	District	...	...	...	2	3	3
Aṣ-Ṣulaybīyah az-Zarā'iyah	الصليبيه الزراعيه	District	3,824	2,526	2,290	3,078	3,408	3,577
Bir Maḥāfẓah al-Jahrā'	بر محافظة الجهراء	District	192	1,302	1,042	1,200	1,357	1,555
Jāber al-Aḥmed [Jaber Al Ahmed]	جابر الأحمد	District	...	...	...	...	...	411
Jawākhīr al-Jahrā'	جواخير الجهراء	District	...	...	...	1	3	5
Jazīrat Būbiyān [Bubiyan]	جزيرة بوبيان	Island	0	0	0	0	0	0	o
Jazīrat Warbah	جزيرة وربه	Island	0	0	0	0	0	0	o
Kabad	كبد	District	7	24	273	427	484	488
Kāṭmah	كاطمة	District	7	10	92	140	132	104
Madīnat s'd al-'Abdāllah [South Jahra]	مدينة سعد العبدالله	District	...	...	...	1,233	44,545	61,506
Mu'skrāt al-Jahrā'	معسكرات الجهراء	District	3	383	118	113	116	69
Shālīhāt aṣ-Ṣubiyah	شاليهات الصبيه	Coastal Zone	0	0	0	0	0	0
Shālīhāt Kāẓmh	شاليهات كاظمه	Coastal Zone	0	0	0	0	0	0
Shamāl Gharb al-Jahrā' [Northwestern Jahra]	شمال غرب الجهراء	District	...	...	...	...	...	...
Taymā' [Taima]	تيماء	District	56,656	49,617	53,069	62,137	69,598	70,245
Al-Kuwayt [Kuwait / Al Asima]	العاصمة	Governorate	341,399	340,718	382,745	469,542	509,692	521,941	o
Ad-D'aiyah [Daiya]	الدعيه	District	12,719	12,712	13,922	16,298	18,153	19,025	o
Ad-Dasmah [Dasma]	الدسمة	District	13,141	13,275	14,935	17,610	18,823	20,006	o
Ad-Dawḥah [Doha]	الدوحه	District	22,929	22,740	25,501	30,048	31,489	31,898	o
Al-Fayḥā' [Faiha]	الفيحاء	District	14,853	15,836	17,505	20,240	22,341	23,127	o
Al-Khāldiyah [Khalidiya]	الخالديه	District	11,645	12,652	13,811	16,356	17,618	18,294	o
Al-Kuwayt - Al-Murqāb [Murqab]	المرقاب	District	8,189	8,412	8,313	9,719	8,640	7,368	o
Al-Kuwayt - Al-Qiblah [Qibla]	القبله	District	21,546	13,812	13,543	16,578	16,739	15,835	o
Al-Kuwayt - Dasmān [Dasman]	دسمان	District	2,403	1,340	1,363	1,830	1,963	2,040	o
Al-Kuwayt - Ḥadāq as-Sūr [Wall Garden]	حدائق السور	District	...	...	...	23	22	20	o
Al-Kuwayt - Sharq [Kuwait City East]	شرق	District	27,574	24,466	24,548	28,135	28,870	29,230	o
Al-Manṣūriyah [Mansouriya]	المنصوريه	District	5,871	6,501	7,245	8,425	8,614	8,836	o
Al-Manṭeqah al-Ḥarah	المنطقه الحره	District	...	...	...	...	1	7
Al-Manṭeqah aṣ-Ṣḥiyah [Health District]	المنطقه الصحيه	District	966	1,202	1,140	1,009	1,106	1,064
Al-Nuzhha [Nuzha]	النزهه	District	9,291	10,297	11,328	13,317	14,103	14,519	o
Al-Qādisiyah [Qadisiya]	القادسيه	District	16,313	15,667	17,394	20,881	22,740	23,749	o
Al-'Udayliyah [Adailiya]	العديليه	District	13,040	14,367	16,223	19,502	20,776	21,187	o
Al Wājahh al-Baḥriyah	الواجهه البحريه	District	3	2	0	1	0	0
Al-Yarmūk [Yarmouk]	اليرموك	District	8,438	9,399	13,485	18,844	22,345	24,046	o
Ar-Rawḍah [Rawda]	الروضه	District	20,390	22,383	25,432	31,729	35,295	36,784
Ash-Shāmīyah [Shamiya]	الشاميه	District	10,946	11,453	12,926	15,318	17,004	17,479	o
Ash-Shūwaīkh [Shuwaikh]	الشويخ	District	3,846	3,818	4,248	5,137	5,519	5,686	o
Ash-Shūwaīkh aṣ-Ṣinā'iyah 1 [Shuwaikh Industrial Area 1]	الشويخ الصناعيه (1)	District	4,636	2,871	2,688	2,891	2,506	2,279
Ash-Shūwaīkh aṣ-Ṣinā'iyah 2 [Shuwaikh Industrial Area 2]	الشويخ الصناعيه (2)	District	8,830	7,555	5,662	5,537	4,592	3,802
Ash-Shūwaīkh aṣ-Ṣinā'iyah 3 [Shuwaikh Industrial Area 3]	الشويخ الصناعيه (3)	District	5,019	4,684	4,019	5,301	4,816	4,134
Aṣ-Ṣulaybikhāt [Sulaibekhat]	الصليبيخات	District	24,590	22,109	24,563	29,939	32,798	33,497	o
As-Surrah [Surra]	السره	District	11,496	13,288	21,138	30,480	34,047	35,356	o
Banayd al-Qār [Beneid Al Gar]	بنيد القار	District	22,166	23,571	22,895	26,310	28,992	29,478	o
Ḍāḥiyah 'Abdāllah as-Sālim [Abdulla Al Salem]	ضاحية عبدالله السالم	District	13,857	15,272	17,108	20,050	20,930	21,474	o
Gharnāṭah [Garnata]	غرناطة	District	1,023	1,939	3,500	7,473	9,928	10,266
Jazīrat Faylakā [Failaka]	جزيرة فيلكا	Island	...	...	...	...	...	...	o
Jazīrat Umm An-Namil [Umm Al Namil]	جزيرة أم النمل	Island	0	0	0	0	0	0	o
Kayfān [Kaifan]	كيفان	District	19,937	20,685	21,625	25,105	27,583	28,238	o
Mīnā' al-Dawḥah [Doha Port]	ميناء الدوحه	District	426	515	482	486	694	935
Mu'skrāt al-Mubārekiyah	معسكرات المباركيه	District	238	947	827	877	1,636	1,662
Qarṭabah [Qurtoba]	قرطبه	District	5,078	6,948	15,376	24,090	29,007	30,616	o
Shālīhāt al-Dawḥah	شاليهات الدوحه	District	...	...	...	3	2	4
Ḥawallī [Hawalli]	حولي	Governorate	533,633	434,502	483,177	632,041	769,752	820,842	o
Al-Bida'	البدع	District	1,116	1,234	1,359	565	908	1,002
Al-Jābiriyah [Jabriya]	الجابريه	District	31,687	34,664	43,232	59,594	69,166	73,030	o
Al-Mubārkiyah	المباركيه	District	...	...	...	...	1	1
Al-Zahrā' [Zahraa]	الزهراء	District	70	86	218	3,451	13,003	17,804
Ānjafah [Anjafa]	انجفه	District	...	...	...	656	693	658
Ar-Rumayṭīyah [Rumaithiya]	الرميثيه	District	44,761	40,652	45,828	54,703	57,633	59,240	o
Ash-Sha'ab [Sha'ab]	الشعب	District	11,354	11,042	11,922	14,573	15,349	15,965
Ash-Shuhadā' [Shuhada]	الشهداء	District	...	...	...	2,340	7,462	10,221
As-Salām [Salam]	السلام	District	2	...	449	5,369	14,721	18,496
As-Sālimīyah [Salmiya]	السالميه	District	206,787	157,116	161,385	199,006	238,577	253,923	o
Aṣ-Ṣidīq [Sideek]	الصديق	District	3	...	...	...	...	6
Bayān [Bayan]	بيان	District	31,373	33,889	35,047	43,050	47,885	48,461	o
Ḥaṭīn [Hateen]	حطين	District	1	...	443	4,771	12,018	14,487
Ḥawallī [Hawalli]	حولي	District	151,969	97,897	104,010	137,973	171,804	180,356	o
Manṭeqah Wizārāt	منطقة وزارات	District	...	...	...	3	5	6
Mishref [Mishrif]	مشرف	District	18,774	21,769	27,696	34,867	38,198	39,299	o
Mubārak al-'Abdāllah [Mubarak Al Abdullah]	مبارك العبدالله	District	...	...	220	4,088	7,540	8,455
Salwā' [Salwa]	سلوى	District	35,736	36,153	51,368	67,032	74,789	79,432	o
Mubarāk al-Kabīr [Mubarak Al Kabeer]	مبارك الكبير	Governorate	72,602	111,180	144,351	191,965	223,912	233,205	o
Al-Adan [Adan]	العدان	District	...	6,016	14,255	22,467	30,027	31,764	o
Al-Manṭeqah al-Wusṭa	المنطقة الوسطى	District	370	1,408	1,371	1,263	1,816	1,704
Al-Mesīlah [Messila]	المسيله	District	449	280	312	899	892	997	o
Al-Qoṣūr [Qosour]	القصور	District	4,453	18,350	23,761	29,465	34,369	36,134	o
Al-Qurayn [Qurain]	القرين	District	814	11,365	18,183	25,072	28,811	30,180	o
Ḍāḥiyah Abū Faṭīrah [Abu Fatira]	ضاحية ابو فطيره	District	1,436	457	1,545	1,130	273	294
Ḍāḥiyah al-Funaīṭīs	ضاحية الفنيطيس	District	2,282	688	517	733	468	517	o
Gharb Abū Faṭīra al-Ḥerfiyah [West Abu Fatira Al Herafia]	غرب ابو فطير الحرفيه	District	...	...	...	...	11	15
Mubarāk al-Kabīr [Mubarak Al Kabeer]	مبارك الكبير	District	345	4,637	13,602	24,999	33,597	36,111	o
Sabāh as-Sālim [Sabah Al Salem]	صباح السالم	District	53,525	60,863	62,481	75,294	81,420	83,729	o
Ṣabḥān aṣ-Ṣinā'iyah [Sabhan Industrial Area]	صبحان الصناعيه	District	8,928	7,116	8,324	10,643	12,228	11,760
x [Unknown Governorate]			206,780	125,257	128,512	7,300	5,380	5,292

Source: Kuwait Public Authority for Civil Information (web).
The areas of the governorates and neighborhoods are calculated from geometries.

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KUWAIT: Administrative Division - Statistics and Maps

Contents: Governorates and Neighborhood Districts