Jebel Shams
Jabal Shams or Jebel Shams is a mountain located in northeastern Oman north of the town of Al-Hamra. It is the highest mountain in Oman, and is part of the Jebel Akhdar or Jabal Akhdar Mountains, which in turn belongs to the Hajar range.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Andries Oudshoorn, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: Fabio Achilli, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 3,005 metres
- Description: mountain in Oman
- Also known as: “Jabal ash Sham”, “Jabal ash Shām”, “Jabal ash Shām, Jabal Sham, Wishām, Jabal Shams, Jabal ash Sham, Wisham”, “Jabal Sham”, “Jabal Shams”, “Wisham”, and “Wishām”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Hajar Mountains.
Hajar Mountains
Photo: StellarD, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Hajar Mountains are a range in Northern Oman stretching along the northern coast of Oman, from southwest of Muscat to the United Arab Emirates.
Jebel Shams
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Ad Dakhiliyah Governorate, Oman, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
23.23739° or 23° 14′ 15″ northLongitude
57.26379° or 57° 15′ 50″ eastElevation
3,005 metres (9,859 feet)Open location code
7HMV67P7+XGOpenStreetMap ID
node 1721857713OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Venetian—“Jebel Shams” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جبل شمس”
- Azerbaijani: “Əş-Şam”
- Basque: “Jabal Shams”
- Basque: “Jebel ash-Shams”
- Basque: “Jebel Shams”
- Bulgarian: “Джебал Шамс”
- Bulgarian: “Джебел Шамс”
- Bulgarian: “Планина на слънцето”
- Catalan: “Jaban Xams”
- Catalan: “Jebel Xams”
- Cebuano: “Jabal Shams”
- Central Kurdish: “جەبەل شەمس”
- Chinese: “沙姆山”
- Chinese: “舍姆斯山”
- Czech: “Džabal aš-Šám”
- Czech: “džabal Šams”
- Czech: “Džabal Šams”
- Czech: “Jebel Shams”
- Dutch: “Djabal Sjams”
- French: “djebel Shams”
- French: “Djebel Shams”
- French: “Dschabel ash Sham”
- French: “Jabal Shams”
- French: “Jebel Shams”
- Galician: “Jebel Shams”
- German: “Dschabal Schams”
- German: “Dschabal Shams”
- German: “Jabal Shams”
- Greek: “Τζεμπέλ Σαμς”
- Hebrew: “ג’בל שאמס”
- Hebrew: “ג’בל שמס”
- Hebrew: “הר השמש”
- Italian: “Jabal Shams”
- Italian: “Jebel Shams”
- Japanese: “シャムス山”
- Korean: “샴스산”
- Ladin: “Jebel Shams”
- Latvian: “Šamss”
- Lithuanian: “Džabal Šamas”
- Lithuanian: “Džabal Šamsas”
- Lithuanian: “Šamo kalnas”
- Macedonian: “Џебел Шемс”
- Moroccan Arabic: “جبل شمش”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Jabal Shams”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Jebel Shams”
- Norwegian: “Jabal Shams”
- Persian: “جبل شمس”
- Polish: “Dżabal asz-Szam”
- Polish: “Dżabal asz-Szams”
- Polish: “Dżabal Szam”
- Polish: “Dżabal Szams”
- Portuguese: “Jabal Shams”
- Portuguese: “Jabal Xemece”
- Russian: “Джабаль Шамс”
- Russian: “Джебель-Шамс”
- Russian: “Шемс”
- Russian: “Эш-Шам”
- Scots: “Jebel Shams”
- Slovenian: “Džebel Šams”
- Spanish: “Dschabal Shams”
- Spanish: “Jabal ash Sham”
- Spanish: “Jabal ash Shām”
- Spanish: “Jabal Sham”
- Spanish: “Jabal Shams”
- Spanish: “Jebel Shams”
- Spanish: “Wisham”
- Spanish: “Wishām”
- Swedish: “Jebel Shams”
- Tajik: “Аш-Шамс (қулла)”
- Tajik: “Аш-Шамс”
- Turkish: “Cebel Şems”
- Ukrainian: “Еш-Шамс”
- Urdu: “جبل شمس”
- Uzbek: “Jabalu Shams”
- Venetian: “Jabal Shams”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
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