Bubiyan

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Bubiyan
False color image of the islands of Bubiyan and al-Warba
False color image of the islands of Bubiyan and al-Warba
Waters Persian Gulf
Geographical location 29 ° 44 '  N , 48 ° 12'  E Coordinates: 29 ° 44 '  N , 48 ° 12'  E
Bubiyan (Kuwait)
Bubiyan
length 40 km
width 24 km
surface 863 km²
Residents uninhabited
After al-Warba, the northernmost island of Kuwait
After al-Warba, the northernmost island of Kuwait

Bubiyan ( Arabic جزيرة بوبيان, DMG Ǧazīrat Būbiyān ) is the largest island off the coast of Kuwait with an area of ​​863 km² . It is located in the northeasternmost area of ​​the Persian Gulf . The flat, inhospitable island is an uninhabited military area. Bubiyan is part of the Kuwaiti governorate of al-Jahra .

Bubiyan is the largest of a group of eight islets in the mouth of the Shatt al-Arab . Between Bubiyan and the Iraqi mainland in the northeast the Chaur Abd Allah  /خور عبد الله, between Bubiyan and the Kuwaiti mainland in the southwest of the Chaur as-Sabiya  /خور الصبية. The latter channel continues to the north of the island, where it separates Bubiyan from the neighboring island of al-Warba . 5.4 kilometers north of the southernmost point of the island on Ra's al-Barscha, Bubiyan is connected to the Kuwaiti mainland by a 2.38 km long girder bridge .

A port facility with a railway connection is currently being built on the northeast coast of the island, called Mubarak al-Kabir (ميناء مبارك الكبير / Mīnāʾ Mubārak al-Kabīr ). Completion is planned for 2016.

Until 1994, Bubiyan was controversial due to its strategically important location between Kuwait and Iraq . The bridge was badly damaged in the Second Gulf War , but was subsequently restored. In 1994 Iraq approved the UN Security Council's proposal to draw borders .

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