National Day in Kuwait
National Day in Kuwait is held on February 25. This event in the third decade of the month February is annual. 
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This special holiday commemorates the day that Sheikh Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah became the ruler of Kuwait in 1950.
Kuwait has the sixth-largest oil reserve in the world. The Kuwaiti Dinar is the most valuable currency in the world.
A small emirate nestled between Iraq and Saudi Arabia, Kuwait is situated in a section of one of the driest, least-hospitable deserts on Earth. Its shore, however, includes Kuwait Bay, a deep harbour on the Persian Gulf. There, in the 18th century, Bedouin from the interior founded a trading post.
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Father's Day in some Islamic countries on January 13 (Iran, Kuwait, Bahrain, Iraq, Oman, Qatar, Egypt, Yemen, Syria, Lebanon, Somalia, Sudan, Mauritania is celebrated on the 13th day of the month of Rajab);
Kuwait Liberation Day on February 26 (commemorates the country's liberation in 1991, after the Gulf War);
Mother's Day in most of the Arab world on March 21 (Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, Lebanon, Mauritania, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen)