Kuwait: In the country with the strongest currency in the world gasoline is cheaper than water

For only 30 cents, he can buy a liter of gasoline in the capital of Kuwait. If we were babies, we saved money in this curious country.

If you find the Euro a strong currency, what will you say from the Kuwait Dinar, the strongest currency in the world? This coin Ok 2.87 euros, And it is much more colorful than the monochrome euro.

Despite the strength of its currency, the per capita GDP of this Middle East country is similar to Portuguese – in the World Population Review, comes below Portugal, with 27871 euros.

According to the magazine, the Kuwait Dinar was born only in 1960, after this country achieved independence from the United Kingdom, which dominated the small territory, located between Iraq and Saudi Arabia, until then.

Kuwait is one of the world’s main exporters of oiland it is from this trade that gets its performance. Portuguese traveler Bruno Barbosa has recently been in the country, and takes us into a supermarket in the capital, Kuwait city, to explain that, despite the strong coin, the cost of living is not very high.

In fact, the currency is so strong in view of the prices practiced that even There are half and a room for dinar, explains the traveler Lauren Juliff in her.

Interestingly, this is one of the only places in the world where you can find gasoline at the price of water – and even cheaper. In the capital, a supply point pointed to the price of gasoline 95 this week at € 0.30 per liter.

1.5 liter water in the supermarket cost the equivalent of 36 cents. However, as in Portugal, gasoline tends to be more expensive in the capital. Soon, in areas further from Kuwait, The water should even be more expensive than gasoline.

This is just one of Kuwait’s numerous peculiarities, a country full of history, with less than a century of independence from the United Kingdom. If you visit it, you can expect incredible landscapes by the sea, affordable prices, and hospitality of the Arab people who inhabit there.

Still, Kuwait dedicates Little time and resources to touristsS-You can get bored in a few days, without much to visit. This small country is more concerned with black gold.