Rustaq
Rustaq is a town and Wilayah in the Al Batinah South Governorate of northern Oman in the Western Hajar Mountains. Rustaq was once the capital of Oman, during the era of Imam Nasir bin Murshid al Ya'arubi.- Type: City with 56,000 residents
- Description: city and province of Oman
- Also known as: “Al-Rustaq”, “Ar Rustāq”, “ar-Rustaq”, “Qal‘at Kasrá”, “Rostak”, “Rustāq”, “Αλ Ρουστάκ”, “ラスタク”, “ルスターク”, “ルスタック”, and “羅斯塔格”
Rustaq
- Categories: province of Oman and locality
- Location: Al Batinah South Governorate, Oman, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
23.3886° or 23° 23′ 19″ north
Longitude
57.4264° or 57° 25′ 35″ east
Population
56,000
Elevation
341 metres (1,119 feet)
IATA airport code
MNH
Open location code
7HMV9CQG+CH
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=oasis
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Uzbek—“Rustaq” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الرستاق”
- Arabic: “ولاية الرستاق”
- Asturian: “Rustaq”
- Azerbaijani: “Rüstaq”
- Catalan: “Al-Rustak”
- Catalan: “Al-Rustaq”
- Cebuano: “Rustaq”
- Chinese: “魯斯塔克”
- Chinese: “魯斯塔格”
- Chinese: “鲁斯塔格”
- Czech: “Rustak”
- Czech: “Rusták”
- Dutch: “Rustaq”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ولاية الرستاق”
- Finnish: “Rustaq”
- French: “Al-Rustaq”
- French: “Rustaq”
- German: “Al-Rustaq”
- German: “Rustaq”
- Greek: “Ρουστάκ”
- Hebrew: “אל רוסטאק”
- Hebrew: “רוסתאק”
- Hindi: “अल-रुस्ताक”
- Indonesian: “Rustaq”
- Italian: “Rustaq”
- Japanese: “ルスタク”
- Korean: “루스타크”
- Malay: “Rustaq”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Rustaq”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Al-Rustaq”
- Norwegian: “Rustaq”
- Ossetian: “Эр-Рустахъ”
- Persian: “رستاق”
- Polish: “Ar-Rustak”
- Portuguese: “Rustaque”
- Romanian: “Rustaq, Oman”
- Romanian: “Rustaq”
- Russian: “Рустака”
- Russian: “Эр-Рустак”
- Slovenian: “Rustak”
- Swedish: “Rustaq, Oman”
- Swedish: “Rustaq”
- Thai: “อัรรุสตาก”
- Urdu: “رستاق، عمان”
- Urdu: “رستاق”
- Uzbek: “Rustoq”
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Places to explore: Al-Rustaq and Qalat Kasra.
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