Sawaber
الصوابر
Sawabir, Sawaabir, Al-Sawaber
City
ProvinceCapital Governorate
AreaSharq
Population
  Total16,000

Sawabir (Arabic: الصوابر, romanized: aṣ-Ṣawābir) is in an old district in Sharq area in Capital Governorate in Kuwait. It is a large, mainly residential district of Kuwait City. Sharq's total population stood at about 16,000[1]

The city is home to the Imam Ja'far as-Sadiq Mosque, one of the country's oldest Shiite mosque's, which was the target of a terrorist attack in 2015.

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