Mitribah is a

weather station A weather station is a facility, either on land or sea, with instruments and equipment for measuring atmospheric conditions to provide information for weather forecasts and to study the weather and climate. The measurements taken include tempera ...

(40551 in the

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database) in northwest

Kuwait Kuwait (; ar, الكويت ', or ), officially the State of Kuwait ( ar, دولة الكويت '), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated in the northern edge of Eastern Arabia at the tip of the Persian Gulf, bordering Iraq to Iraq–Ku ...

. On July 21, 2016, the temperature at this location hit the third highest temperature ever reliably recorded on Earth at .

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{{Kuwait-geo-stub Populated places in Kuwait