Shinas
Shinas is one of the six coastal wilayas in the Northern Al Batinah governorate, Oman, near its border with the United Arab Emirates. As of 2023, it had a population of 53,949.
- Type: Town with 15,500 residents
- Description: town in Al Batinah Region, Oman
- Also known as: “Al Shinas”, “Ash Shinās”, “Schinaass”, “Schinas”, “Shināṣ”, and “Shināş, Shinas”
Shinas
- Categories: province of Oman, human settlement, and locality
- Location: Al Batinah North Governorate, Oman, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
24.74416° or 24° 44′ 39″ north
Longitude
56.45982° or 56° 27′ 35″ east
Population
15,500
Elevation
3 metres (10 feet)
Open location code
7HPRPFV5+MW
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Shinas” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “شناص”
- Arabic: “ولاية شناص”
- Arabic: “ولايه شناص”
- Cebuano: “Shināş”
- Dutch: “Shinas”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ولاية شناص”
- French: “Shinas”
- German: “Schinas”
- German: “Shinas”
- Hebrew: “שינאס”
- Irish: “Shinas”
- Italian: “Shinas”
- Japanese: “シナース”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Shinas”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Shinas”
- Norwegian: “Shinas”
- Persian: “شناص”
- Polish: “Szinas”
- Portuguese: “Xinas”
- Russian: “Шинас”
- Spanish: “Shinas”
- Urdu: “شناص”
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