Adailiya
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Adailiya ( ) is an area and a suburb of Kuwait City; it is located in the Capital Governorate in Kuwait. It had a population of 21,996 in 2022. Adailiya houses a campus of Kuwait's Public Authority for Applied Education and Training (PAAET) and, temporarily, the colleges of Architecture and Life Sciences at Kuwait University as well as the Kazma Sport Club and religious, cultural, and commercial places. It also has a Water Towers Park.
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Adailiya ( ) is an area and a suburb of Kuwait City; it is located in the Capital Governorate in Kuwait. It had a population of 21,996 in 2022. Adailiya houses a campus of Kuwait's Public Authority for Applied Education and Training (PAAET) and, temporarily, the colleges of Architecture and Life Sciences at Kuwait University as well as the Kazma Sport Club and religious, cultural, and commercial places. It also has a Water Towers Park.
== History == The vicinity of Adailiya comprised today's areas of Rawda, historically East ʿAdailiya, and the current area ʿAdailiya. Before the oil boom, Adailiya was one of the scattered settlements outside of Kuwait City mainly focused on farming wheat and barley. The land was usually described as fertile with abundant groundwater sources.
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