Editing Geography of Kuwait (section)

==Boundaries and geographic features==
[[File:Kuwait2022OSM.png|thumb|270px|A detailed map of Kuwait.]]
As previously mentioned, Kuwait borders the [[Persian Gulf]] with {{convert|195|km|abbr=on}} of coast.<ref name=":0">{{citation-attribution|1={{cite encyclopedia|title=Persian Gulf states: country studies|publisher=[[Federal Research Division]], [[Library of Congress]]|location=Washington, D.C.|url=https://www.loc.gov/item/93046476/|last=Crystal|first=Jill|date=1994|editor-last=Metz|editor-first=Helen Chapin|editor-link=Helen Chapin Metz |edition=3rd|pages=47–50|isbn=0-8444-0793-3|oclc=29548413}}|entry=Kuwait: Geography}}</ref> Within its territory are ten islands, two of which, [[Bubiyan]] (the largest) and [[Warbah Island|Warbah]], are strategically important.<ref name=":0" />

Kuwait's most prominent geographic feature is Kuwait Bay ([[Kuwait Bay|Jun al Kuwayt]]), which indents the shoreline for about forty kilometers, providing natural protection for the port of Kuwait, and accounts for nearly one third of the country's shoreline.<ref name=":0" />

To the north and northwest, there is the historically contested [[Iraq–Kuwait border|border between Kuwait and Iraq]].<ref name=":0" /> Although the Iraqi government, which had first asserted a claim to rule Kuwait in 1938, recognized the borders with Kuwait in 1963 (based on agreements made earlier in the century), it continued to press Kuwait for control over Bubiyan and Warbah islands through the 1960s and 1970s.<ref name=":0" />

To the south and southwest, Kuwait shares a 250-km border with Saudi Arabia.<ref name=":0" /> The [[Kuwait–Saudi Arabia border|boundary between Kuwait and Saudi Arabia]] was set by the [[Treaty of Al Uqayr]] in 1922, which also established the [[Saudi–Kuwaiti neutral zone]] of 5,700 square kilometers between the two nations.<ref name=":0" /> In 1966, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia agreed to divide the neutral zone; the partitioning agreement making each country responsible for administration in its portion was signed in December 1969.<ref name=":0" /> The resources in the area, now known as the Divided Zone, are not affected by the agreement.<ref name=":0" /> The oil from onshore and offshore fields continues to be shared equally between the two countries.<ref name=":0" />

In August 1990, [[Invasion of Kuwait|Iraq invaded Kuwait]] and, shortly thereafter, formally incorporated the entire country into Iraq.<ref name=":0" /> Under [[United Nations Security Council Resolution 687|United Nations (UN) Security Council Resolution 687]], after the restoration of Kuwaiti sovereignty in 1991, a UN commission undertook formal demarcation of the borders on the basis of those agreed to in 1963.<ref name=":0" /> The boundary was demarcated in 1992.<ref name=":0" /> Iraq initially refused to accept the commission's findings<ref name=":0" /> but ultimately accepted them in November 1994.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2000|title=Iraq|url=http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/iz.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20001211012800/http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/iz.html|archive-date=December 11, 2000|access-date=2021-09-01|website=[[The World Factbook]]|publisher=[[Central Intelligence Agency]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Crossette|first=Barbara|date=November 11, 1994|title=Iraqis to accept Kuwait's borders|page=A1|work=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/11/11/world/iraqis-to-accept-kuwait-s-borders.html}}</ref>