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Kuwait - geographie.
Kuwait verfügt mit knapp 13 Milliarden Tonnen Erdöl über die viertgrößten nachgewiesenen Ölreserven der Welt. Große Ölfelder gibt es u. a. bei Raudhatain im Norden undbei Burgan sowie Al Wafrah im Süden des Emirates. Neben der Erdölförderung und -verarbeitung haben auch die Erdgasförderung und -aufbereitung sowie dieDüngemittelproduktion Bedeutung. Im Bereich Leichtindustrie sind u. a. die Papier- und Zementproduktion zu nennen. Wichtige Industriestandorte sind z. B. Kuwait (Stadt),Mina Abdallah...
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Kuwait (country) - country.
Oil revenues have allowed Kuwait to build an extensive educational system, yielding a literacy rate of 84 percent. Public school is free and compulsory from the age of 6to 13, and several private schools also teach this age group. Kuwait University (founded in 1966) is also free and offers programs in a wide range of professional andscientific fields at several campuses. Both the extensive library system at Kuwait University and the collection at Kuwait National Museum (1957) were heavily damage...
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Kuwait (emirato) - geografía.
cebollas. La pesca del camarón está adquiriendo cada vez mayor importancia; la captura anual de pescado en 2005 era de 5.222 toneladas. 5.3 Industria La principal industria de Kuwait es el refino de petróleo. Con el aumento de los ingresos por petróleo durante la década de 1970, el gobierno ha llevado a cabo grandesplanes para el desarrollo industrial. Las industrias producen cemento y otros materiales de construcción, plásticos y barcos. La producción de energía eléctrica se basa encentrales t...
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Kuwait - ficha de geographia.
Prácticamente no existe; con la excepción del pescado, depende de las importaciones de alimentos; la mayor parte del agua potable se destila o importaRecursos naturalesPetróleo, pesca, gas naturalFuentes de información:Datos básicos y Población Los datos de superficie proceden de centros estadísticos de cada país. Los datos de población, tasa de crecimiento de la población, mortalidad infantil y esperanza de vida se han extraído de la base de datos internacional del United States Census Bureau,...
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Kuwait Facts and Figures.
Other 2 percent HEALTH AND EDUCATIONLife expectancy Total 77.5 years (2008 estimate) Female 78.7 years (2008 estimate) Male 76.4 years (2008 estimate) Infant mortality rate 9 deaths per 1,000 live births (2008 estimate) Population per physician 656 people (2004) Population per hospital bed 455 people (2002) Literacy rateTotal 84.4 percent (2005 estimate) Female 82.9 percent (2005 estimate) Male 85.8 percent (2005 estimate) Education expenditure as a share of gross national...
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Kuwait - Daten und Fakten - geographie.
Die Angaben zu Sprachen sind überwiegend aus Ethnologue, Languages of the World, Summer Institute of Linguistics International (www.sil.org). Gesundheit und AusbildungDie Angaben zur Lebenserwartung und Kindersterblichkeit entstammen dem United States Census Bureau, International Programs Center, International Database (IDB)(www.census.gov). Die Daten zur Bevölkerung pro Arzt und pro Krankenbett wurden von der Weltgesundheitsorganisation (WHO) (www.who.int) übernommen. Ausbildungsdatenstammen...
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Persian Gulf War.
to “use all necessary means” to force Iraq from Kuwait if Iraq remained in the country after January 15, 1991. The Iraqis rejected the ultimatum. Soon after the vote,the United States agreed to a direct meeting between Secretary of State James Baker and Iraq’s foreign minister. The two sides met on January 9. Neither offered tocompromise. The United States underscored the ultimatum, and the Iraqis refused to comply with it, even threatening to attack Israel. For the United States, themeeting was...
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Persian Gulf War - History.
to “use all necessary means” to force Iraq from Kuwait if Iraq remained in the country after January 15, 1991. The Iraqis rejected the ultimatum. Soon after the vote,the United States agreed to a direct meeting between Secretary of State James Baker and Iraq’s foreign minister. The two sides met on January 9. Neither offered tocompromise. The United States underscored the ultimatum, and the Iraqis refused to comply with it, even threatening to attack Israel. For the United States, themeeting was...
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Persian Gulf War - U.
to “use all necessary means” to force Iraq from Kuwait if Iraq remained in the country after January 15, 1991. The Iraqis rejected the ultimatum. Soon after the vote,the United States agreed to a direct meeting between Secretary of State James Baker and Iraq’s foreign minister. The two sides met on January 9. Neither offered tocompromise. The United States underscored the ultimatum, and the Iraqis refused to comply with it, even threatening to attack Israel. For the United States, themeeting was...
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Irak - geografía.
a otras, localizándose las mayores concentraciones junto a los sistemas fluviales. La población urbana es del 67% aproximadamente. 3.2 Divisiones administrativas El territorio de Irak está dividido en 18 gobernaciones, tres de las cuales constituyen regiones autónomas kurdas. Cada gobernación está regida por un gobernadordesignado por el gobierno central. Irak se anexionó y ocupó Kuwait entre agosto de 1990 y febrero de 1991, convirtiéndose en su decimonovena gobernación. 3.3 Ciudades principal...
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Saddam Husayn - historia.
bien armado, que utilizó para influir en asuntos regionales, como por ejemplo, para presionar a Kuwait para que condonara la deuda iraquí con este país. 3.2 Guerra del Golfo Pérsico La coalición multinacional libera KuwaitDespués de la invasión iraquí de Kuwait (agosto de 1990), una coalición multinacional bombardeó las instalaciones militares iraquíes aprincipios de 1991. Semanas más tarde, los aliados tomaron Kuwait e invadieron a su vez el sur de Irak.© Microsoft Corporation. Reservados todo...
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USA - Iraq War - History.
B Making the Case for War B1 “Neoconservatives” and the Bush Doctrine Long before President George W. Bush took office in 2001, elements in or close to the Republican Party had called repeatedly for firmer U.S. steps against Iraq,including a war if necessary to force a regime change. One such group authored a white paper in 1996 called A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm , which was later sent to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, leader of Israel’s Likud Party. It advocated...
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U.S.-Iraq War - U.S. History.
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B Making the Case for War B1 “Neoconservatives” and the Bush Doctrine Long before President George W. Bush took office in 2001, elements in or close to the Republican Party had called repeatedly for firmer U.S. steps against Iraq,including a war if necessary to force a regime change. One such group authored a white paper in 1996 called A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm , which was later sent to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, leader of Israel’s Likud Party. It advocated...
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Asia - Geography.
Borneo, the world’s third largest island after Greenland and New Guinea. To the southeast is the Timor Sea separating the Asian island of Timor from the Australiancontinent. The Indian subcontinent is flanked by the Bay of Bengal on the east and the Arabian Sea on the west. The island of Sri Lanka and the much smaller Maldives andNicobar Islands trail away to the south. The Arabian Sea’s Gulf of Aden, the Red Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Black Sea form an arc along the western rim of Asia...
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Asia - History.
Borneo, the world’s third largest island after Greenland and New Guinea. To the southeast is the Timor Sea separating the Asian island of Timor from the Australiancontinent. The Indian subcontinent is flanked by the Bay of Bengal on the east and the Arabian Sea on the west. The island of Sri Lanka and the much smaller Maldives andNicobar Islands trail away to the south. The Arabian Sea’s Gulf of Aden, the Red Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Black Sea form an arc along the western rim of Asia...
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Saudi Arabia - country.
C Natural Resources Some of the world’s largest oil and natural gas fields lie beneath Saudi Arabia and its offshore waters, representing the country’s most economically important naturalresource. In 2007 Saudi Arabia’s oil reserves were estimated at 264 billion barrels. Before the discovery and exploitation of these reserves in the mid-20th century,Saudi Arabia was one of the poorest countries in the world. Its relatively small population subsisted in a harsh environment with little agricultur...
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Iran-Iraq War - History.
The Iranian offensives of 1982 set a pattern that continued for the rest of the war. Exploiting their superiority in numbers, Iran sent its Revolutionary Guard on theattack, supported by regular military forces. Outnumbered Iraqi forces inflicted heavy losses on the Iranians but ultimately fell back. As soon as the initial Iranian thrusthad exhausted itself, however, the Iraqi army exploited Iranian disorganization and lack of equipment to retake much of the lost territory. As the war continued,...
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Guerra del Golfo Pérsico - historia.
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Iraq - country.
The Euphrates begins in Turkey, crosses Syria, and enters Iraq at Abū Kam āl. The flow of the Euphrates into Iraq has been greatly reduced by dams built by Turkeyand Syria. The gradient of the Euphrates above the town of H īt, in west central Iraq, is steep. In the 2,640 km (1,640 mi) from its source in Turkey to H īt, the river fallsfrom 3,000 m (10,000 ft) to a low water elevation of 50 m (170 ft) above sea level, an average drop of 1 m per km (6 ft per mi). In Iraq below H īt the fall is very...
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Asia - geography.
the Himalayas, the world’s highest mountain system. The Pacific Ocean plate drifted westward, scraping along the Eurasian plate and slipping under its coastal edge. This created the islands of Japan, Taiwan, the Kurils, theRyūky ūs, and the Philippines. Southeast Asia lies at the intersection of the Eurasian, Pacific Ocean, and Indian Ocean plates. Over time the contact between these platescreated the mountain ranges of mainland Southeast Asia. The continued slow movement of the plates causes fr...
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Asia - history.
the Himalayas, the world’s highest mountain system. The Pacific Ocean plate drifted westward, scraping along the Eurasian plate and slipping under its coastal edge. This created the islands of Japan, Taiwan, the Kurils, theRyūky ūs, and the Philippines. Southeast Asia lies at the intersection of the Eurasian, Pacific Ocean, and Indian Ocean plates. Over time the contact between these platescreated the mountain ranges of mainland Southeast Asia. The continued slow movement of the plates causes fr...
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Jasir Mohammed Arafat - Geschichte.
Einen schweren diplomatischen Fehlgriff, dessen Resultat eine zeitweise Isolierung sowohl auf internationaler Ebene als auch innerhalb der arabischen Welt war, begingArafat 1990/91, als er sich während der irakischen Invasion in Kuwait (2. Golfkrieg) mit dem irakischen Staatschef Saddam Hussein solidarisierte. Dennoch wurde imOktober 1991 auf Vermittlung der USA und der Sowjetunion in Madrid eine erste multilaterale Nahostkonferenz eröffnet; Arafat verzichtete allerdings auf eine persönlicheTeil...