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Kuwait

ISO Code: KWT

2

Landing Points

6

Cables

37

Connected

182

Reachable

1.6

Redundancy

gateway

Role

Directly Connected Countries

Angola United Arab Emirates Bahrain Côte d'Ivoire Congo, Dem. Rep.Congo, Rep.Comoros Djibouti Egypt Spain France Gabon United Kingdom Ghana Greece India Iran Iraq Italy Kenya Sri Lanka Madagascar Maldives Mozambique Nigeria Oman Pakistan Portugal Qatar Saudi Arabia Sudan Senegal Somalia Seychelles Tanzania Yemen South Africa

Cables

2Africa33 countries FALCON13 countries Fiber Optic Gulf (FOG)3 countries Fibre in Gulf (FIG)6 countries Gulf Bridge International Cable System/Middle East North Africa Cable System (GBICS/MENA)8 countries Kuwait-Iran1 countries

Landing Points

Kuwait City, Kuwait

5 cables

Al Safat, Kuwait

1 cables

182

Reachable Countries

1.6

Redundancy Score

182

Transit Dependencies

Low Redundancy Destinations

Exact bounded path counts are shown for selected direct and nearby destinations. Other destinations use approximate representative counts. 22 exact · 160 approximate

Transit Dependencies

Score emphasizes lost reachable countries first, then lost representative paths, nearby destinations, and direct-neighbor exposure.

3 countries lost · 3 representative paths · 0 nearby

Congo, Dem. Rep.

2 countries lost · 6 representative paths · 2 nearby · 1 direct

2 countries lost · 6 representative paths · 2 nearby · 1 direct

2 countries lost · 6 representative paths · 1 nearby

1 countries lost · 5 representative paths · 1 nearby · 1 direct

1 countries lost · 5 representative paths · 1 nearby · 1 direct

1 countries lost · 5 representative paths · 1 nearby · 1 direct

1 countries lost · 5 representative paths · 1 nearby · 1 direct

1 countries lost · 5 representative paths · 1 nearby · 1 direct

1 countries lost · 5 representative paths · 1 nearby · 1 direct

Concentration

These are structural concentration measures from the country-topology graph. They do not represent traffic, latency, or capacity share.

83%

Top LP Share

27%

Top Gateway Share

98%

Top Cable Share

0.72

LP HHI

0.16

Gateway HHI

1.15

Cable HHI

Top Landing Points

Kuwait City, Kuwait83%

Al Safat, Kuwait17%

Top Gateway Countries

France27%Angola19%Bahrain15%Djibouti11%United Kingdom10%

Cable Failure Impact

2Africa failure

Loses: Angola, Côte d'Ivoire, Congo, Dem. Rep., Congo, Rep., Comoros, Djibouti, Spain, France, Gabon, United Kingdom, Ghana, Greece, Italy, Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, Nigeria, Pakistan, Portugal, Senegal, Somalia, Seychelles, Tanzania, South Africa

FALCON failure

Loses: Sri Lanka, Maldives, Yemen

Landing Point Failure Impact

Kuwait City, Kuwait failure

Loses 5 cables

Loses: Angola, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Côte d'Ivoire, Congo, Dem. Rep., Congo, Rep., Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Spain, France, Gabon, United Kingdom, Ghana, Greece, India, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Portugal, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Senegal, Somalia, Seychelles, Tanzania, South Africa

Al Safat, Kuwait failure

Loses 1 cable

Loses: United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Egypt, India, Iran, Iraq, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Yemen

Top Combinations From Bounded Candidate Search

Results come from bounded candidate search, not exhaustive N-2 enumeration. Evaluated 5 cable candidates and 2 landing-point candidates before ranking blocked-state recomputations. 10 cable-pair · 1 landing-point-pair · 10 mixed-pair evaluations

Cable pair

2africa + falcon

0 lost direct countries

Cable pair

2africa + fiber-optic-gulf-fog

0 lost direct countries

Cable pair

2africa + fibre-in-gulf-fig

0 lost direct countries

Landing point pair

kuwait-city-kuwait + al-safat-kuwait

182 lost direct countries

Role

gateway

Kuwait acts as a gateway because its network-relative degree, reach, or gateway-share signal is elevated; the gateway-share signal is around the 16th percentile.

Role labels are network-relative classifications derived from degree, reachable-country count, bridge coverage, and gateway concentration within the country-topology graph.

37

Degree

182

Reachable

0

Bridge Pairs

0%

Bridge Coverage

Bridge Dependencies

No strong local bridge dependencies detected.