Manama, the capital, is on Bahrain Island, and Muharraq is the second largest city in the group of islands. The State of Kuwait Kuwait is 6200 square miles in area, and has a population of 1.5 million. Kuwait City is the capital. Although the Tropic of Cancer passes through the center of the Arabian peninsula, the land is not tropical. Its summers are long and extremely hot, with temperatures rising as high as 130 degrees Fahrenheit in many places.
Winters are short and cold.
Rainfall is scanty, averaging four inches a year. The south-west corner, however, gets relatively heavy rainfall, as much as twenty inches. Vegetation Vegetation is generally very sparse due to lack of rain and due to the high salt content of the soil. True trees are rare, and shrubs are common. All plants have had to adapt themselves to the conditions of desert existence.