Rumaithiya

Rumaithiya (, Gulf Arabic: l-irmēθīya) is a mainly-residential area in Hawalli governorate and a suburb of Kuwait City. It is divided into twelve blocks. The population of Rumaithiya was 58,127, according to the June 2023 estimate by the . A significant proportion of Rumaithiya's residents are Shia Muslims.

==History== thumb|left|A Monument dedicated to the martyrs of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990–1991 at Rumaithiya Co-Op in Block 7. The general area of Rumaithiya was already known by the time Syrian traveller Faisal Al-Adhama visited Kuwait in 1942 and wrote about it in his 1945 book In The Pearl Country (), where he describes it as a "beautiful place neighboring Dimna." (nowadays Salmiya). When the area of modern Rumaihiya was officially drawn in 1964, it had 13 blocks. However, the 13th block was completely separated from the rest of the area by Kuwait's 5th Ring Road, a major highway, and its location was more fit as part of contiguous Salmiya.