This post has various contemporary and vintage maps of Kuwait from many different sources.
Here is a road map of Kuwait from the 1970s, which I purchased from ebay
Below you can see a picture of an old globe seen an antique store. The first map below is a Road Map of the Gulf, published by Hunting Surveys Ltd. in the 1970s and listed for sale on abebooks. The second map shows downtown Kuwait and was seen in a book at Rakan bookstore in Hawally. The third map (listed on abebooks) dates to 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 fourth come from Birds of the Arabian Gulf, published in 1981.
From pinterest, eBay, and abebooks
The first map below is from a book posted on the blog 248, the second, is from Keith Well’s Wizr, the third is from Wildflowers of Kuwait by Violet Dickson, the fourth from Kuwait Was My Home by Zahra Freeth, the fifth is from Kuwait: Enchantment of the World
Published by Sahab Geographic & Drafting Institute, Tehran in 1965
Radio cards listed for sale on eBay
Listed for sale on abebooks, published in 1970
Listed for sale on abebooks, published in 1960
From Farah Al Nakib’s Kuwait Transformed
Listed for sale on abebooks
From a tourism brochure listed on delcampe
From a geography syllabus for foreign schools, produced by the Ministry of Education in the 1970s
From Wildflowers of Kuwait by Linda Shuaib
From Kuwait: A Nation’s Story by Peter Vine & Paula Casey
From Kuwait: A Meed Practical Guide, published in 1985
Maps that are for sale on ebay or abebooks
Listed for sale on Sothebys
From the 1991 National Geographic Article “After the Storm,” an academic paper, a page from the book “Kuwait in Pictures,” a poster, and information about a fish from “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
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