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Abu Halifa

Abu Halifa or Abu Hulayfah or Abu Huleifa or Abu Haleifah is an area in Kuwait City, located in the Abu Halifa District of the Al Ahmadi Governorate in Kuwait.

Abu Halifa
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The place

Abu Halifa or Abu Hulayfah or Abu Huleifa or Abu Haleifah is an area in Kuwait City, located in the Abu Halifa District of the Al Ahmadi Governorate in Kuwait. The area got its name on account of being rich in small plants called "Hanifa" (حنيفا). Abu Halifa is the location of the Box Hill Institute of TAFE, the Kuwait Magic Mall, and Sahel Stadium.

Abu Halifa has major facilities ranging from mosques, restaurants, food courts, parks, walking tracks and pharmacies to malls, beaches and schools. Abu Halifa's population comprises a majority of Indian migrant workers.

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What is there

Worth seeing in and around Abu Halifa

One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Kuwait Technical College

    Kuwait Technical College or ktech was founded 2014 to provide opportunities for students who are more oriented toward practical education rather than a more theoretical approach.

    900 m · University College in Kuwait (Abu Halifa) · Wikipedia

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Getting to Abu Halifa

Airports
Kuwait (KWI), 18 km · Abadan Ayatollah Jami (ABD), 138 km · Basra (BSR), 164 km
  • Abadan → Abu Halifa
    136 km · quickest by road, 4h 30m · $20–28
  • Basra → Abu Halifa
    155 km · quickest by road, 3h 22m · $15–21
  • Qaisumah → Abu Halifa
    215 km · quickest by road, 4h 7m · SAR75–105
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No local-transport research exists yet for Abu Halifa

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Abu Halifa. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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Around it

Next door to Abu Halifa

Abu Halifa is 7 km from Al Aḩmadī, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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