
The map above was found on abebooks. It dates in 1929 and is a, “unique hand-drawn map of the Arabian Peninsula and Iraq by the Turkish cartographer, scientist and cadastre specialist Halid Ziya Türkkan, who was appointed Head of the Science Committee of Istanbul’s new cadastre office in 1925.” The maps below come from Wildflowers of Kuwait by Violet Dickson, Kuwait Was My Home by Zahra Freeth, a book posted on the blog 248, Kuwait: Enchantment of the World, Keith Well’s Wizr series, Farah Al Nakib’s Kuwait Transformed.







From Kuwait: A Nation’s Story by Peter Vine & Paula Casey




The maps below are for sale on ebay, abebooks, or etsy















Listed for sale on abebooks




Listed for sale on Sothebys




From the 1991 National Geographic Article “After the Storm,” a poster, an academic paper, a page from the book “Kuwait in Pictures” and “Shipmasters of Kuwait”






From a 1976 map on ebay






From the 1972 book Kuwait: Prospect and Reality by Zahra Freeth





From the flickr of Mohammad Abdullah




From the David Rumsey Map Collection and Historic Pictoric



From the Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection







From the First Master Plan


Cartographic Analysis of Urban Expansion in Kuwait and Map of Kuwait published in June 1951 in the Illustrated London News





From the Qatar Digital Library







Physical copies of maps






















Not specifically of Kuwait, you can see these maps of the routes of famous Muslim travelers at the Sheikh Abdullah Al Salem Cultural Center










[…] official publications, and international magazines illustration Kuwait’s progress.” The map below comes from the American Women’s League of Kuwait’s Yellow Pages, published in […]
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