Sabah Al Ahmad Sea City
مدينة صباح الأحمد البحرية | |
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| Country | Kuwait |
| District | Ahmadi Governorate |
| Time zone | UTC+3 (AST) |
Sabah Al Ahmad Sea City (Arabic: مدينة صباح الأحمد البحرية) is a city and area in Al Khiran (Ahmadi Governorate), Kuwait built with canals forming 200 kilometres (120 mi) of artificial shoreline. Before construction, the city was expected to house up to 250,000 residents.[1][2] The city was inaugurated in mid 2016.[3][4] The concept of the area is unusual because it was built excavating large channels in desert land rather than using reclaimed land. The city is considered a pioneering project in the region due to its environmentally sustainable construction techniques.[5][6]
The first phase of the project was opened to the sea in 2004.[5] The multi-billion dollar development is within a 25-year construction period with ten phases.[1] Sabah Al Ahmad Sea City is the first urban area in Kuwait built entirely by the private sector.
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- ^ Al-Shuaibi, Athoob (9 November 2017). "Sabah Al-Ahmad Sea City - Kuwait Times". Kuwait Times. Retrieved 15 January 2018.
- ^ "Sea City achieves the impossible". The Worldfolio. March 2016.
- ^ "Tamdeen Group's US$ 700 million Al Khiran development to bolster Kuwait's retail and tourism growth". Tamdeen Group.
- ^ a b Jones, D. A.; Nithyanandan, M.; Williams, I. (4 June 2012). "Sabah Al-Ahmad Sea City Kuwait: development of a sustainable man-made coastal ecosystem in a saline desert". Aquatic Ecosystem Health & Management. 15: 84–92. doi:10.1080/14634988.2012.663706.
- ^ "Sabah Al-Ahmad Sea City - Khiran". Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research.
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