Jahra Governorate ( ) is one of the six

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. It is the largest Governorate in Kuwait accounting for 63 percent of its land area. It includes the town of

Al Jahra Al Jahra () is a city and area located west of the centre of Kuwait City in Kuwait. Al Jahra is the capital of the Al Jahra Governorate of Kuwait as well as the surrounding Al Jahra District which is agriculturally based. Encyclopædia Britanni ...

, most of the northern and western parts of Kuwait, several islands (among them

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). and also western districts of

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. It also contains most of Kuwait's arable land. Al Jahra also has some historic relevance to Kuwait's history. The Red Palace is the most important historical landmark there. Historically, Al Jahra was an agricultural oasis village and most locals were farmers.Farmers of Jahra
/ref> Al Jahra's most notable residents included Sheikh Thuwainy Bin Abdullah Al-Saadoun of

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in 1786, when he fled from Baghdad to Suleiman Pasha. He wanted to occupy Basra and Sheikh Abdullah Al-Sabah hosted him until he returned to

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after he was pardoned by the Iraqi governor. In 1925, Al-Jahra was under the administrative or governmental jurisdiction of Kuwait City, and the population lived on the cultivation of palm trees and a little wheat and barley. Al Jahra contained 170 houses including the palace of Talib al-Naqib and the palace of the Mubarak Al-Sabah. Nowadays Al Jahra is a modern city and farming has been reduced to various small farms. The geographic midpoint of Kuwait is located in this governorate.

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