Bubiyan Island

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Bubiyan (Arabic جزيرة بوبيان, DMG Ǧazīrat Bubiyan ), with an area of 863 km ² the largest island off the coast of Kuwait. It is located in the northeastern area of the Persian Gulf. The flat, barren island is an uninhabited military zone. Bubiyan is part of the Kuwaiti governorates al - Dschahra.

Bubiyan is the largest island in a group of eight islands at the mouth of the Shatt al-Arab. Between Bubiyan and the Iraqi mainland to the northeast of the Khor Abd Allah / خور عبد الله extends between Bubiyan and the Kuwaiti mainland in the southwest of the Khor al- Sabiya / خور الصبية. The latter channel continues to the north of the island, where it separates from the neighboring island of Bubiyan al - Warba. 5.4 km north of the southernmost point of the island at Ras al- Barsha Bubiyan is connected by a 2.38 -km-long girder bridge with the Kuwaiti mainland. There are plans to build on the island a port facility with rail connection.

Until 1994 Bubiyan was controversial because of its strategically important location between Kuwait and Iraq. During the Second Gulf War, the bridge was badly damaged, but subsequently restored. 1994 approved the demarcation of the Iraq proposal of the UN Security Council to.