[:ja]NASAの地球観測衛星Landsat 8がISSから撮影したクウェートです。画像には、着想から30年、2019年5月に開通した、総延長48.5kmの世界で2番目に長い橋「シェイク・ジャーベル・コーズウェイ」（前国王名）が写っています。
クウェートは、国土のほぼ全てが砂漠気候であり、山地・丘陵などはなく、平地です。夏季の4 – 10月は厳しい暑さとなり、さらにほとんど降水もないため、焼け付くような天気と猛烈な砂嵐が続きます。石油が主要産業であり、界第4位の埋蔵量があり、2016年の生産量は300万バレル/日を超えます。オイルマネーによって、産業基盤の整備や福祉・教育制度の充実を図っており、ほとんどの国民は国家公務員・国営企業の社員として働いています。石油収入を利用した金融立国や産業の多角化を目指して外国からの投融資環境を整備したため莫大な雇用が創出され、不足している労働力は周辺外国人が補っています。
地上の様子はこちらです。
参考文献： The Long Bridge to “Silk City” (NASA Earth Observatory)
地球俯瞰画像を見る： LiVEARTH
[Earthview Wonders] No.859: Kuwait🇰🇼
NASA’s Landsat 8 satellite captured from ISS Kuwait. The photo has 48km Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah Causeway which was completed and opened in May 2019.
Kuwait is in the northern edge of Eastern Arabia at the tip of the Persian Gulf, it shares borders with Iraq and Saudi Arabia. Oil reserves were discovered in commercial quantities in 1938, and today Kuwait has a high-income economy backed by the world’s sixth largest oil reserves. Summers in Kuwait are some of the hottest on earth. The highest recorded temperature was 53.6°C, which is the highest temperature recorded in Asia.
The local scenery on the ground is as follows.
Reference: The Long Bridge to “Silk City” (NASA Earth Observatory)
See earthview photo gallery: LiVEARTH[:en][Earthview Wonders] No.859: Kuwait🇰🇼
NASA’s Landsat 8 satellite captured from ISS Kuwait. The photo has 48km Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah Causeway which was completed and opened in May 2019.
Kuwait is in the northern edge of Eastern Arabia at the tip of the Persian Gulf, it shares borders with Iraq and Saudi Arabia. Oil reserves were discovered in commercial quantities in 1938, and today Kuwait has a high-income economy backed by the world’s sixth largest oil reserves. Summers in Kuwait are some of the hottest on earth. The highest recorded temperature was 53.6°C, which is the highest temperature recorded in Asia.
The local scenery on the ground is as follows.
Reference: The Long Bridge to “Silk City” (NASA Earth Observatory)
See earthview photo gallery: LiVEARTH[:]