Mitribah is a

weather station A weather station is a facility, either on land or sea, with instruments and equipment for measuring atmosphere of Earth, atmospheric conditions to provide information for weather forecasting, weather forecasts and to study the weather and clima ...

(40551 in the

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database) in northwest

Kuwait Kuwait, officially the State of Kuwait, is a country in West Asia and the geopolitical region known as the Middle East. It is situated in the northern edge of the Arabian Peninsula at the head of the Persian Gulf, bordering Iraq to Iraq–Kuwait ...

. On July 21, 2016, the temperature at this location hit the second highest temperature ever reliably recorded on Earth at 54 °C (129.2 °F).

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{{Kuwait-geo-stub Populated places in Kuwait