Old Maps of Kuwait

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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