Musandam Governorate
The Musandam Governorate is a governorate of Oman. Except for the exclave of Madha, it is located on the Musandam Peninsula, which juts into the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow entry into the Persian Gulf, from the Arabian Peninsula.
- Type: State with 49,000 residents
- Description: governorate of Oman
- Also known as: “Muḩāfaz̧at Musandam”, “Musandam”, and “Musandam, Musandam”
- Neighbors: Ras al Khaimah
Places of Interest
Highlights include Shaam Peak.
Shaam Peak
Peak
Musandam Governorate
- Categories: governorates of Oman and locality
- Location: Oman, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
25.9997° or 25° 59′ 59″ north
Longitude
56.2499° or 56° 14′ 60″ east
Population
49,000
Elevation
667 metres (2,188 feet)
Open location code
7HQRX6XX+VW
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=state
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Wu Chinese—“Musandam Governorate” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ሙሳንዳም ጣብያ”
- Arabic: “محافظة مسندم”
- Arabic: “مسندم”
- Arabic: “مسندم|”
- Asturian: “Musandam”
- Azerbaijani: “Musandam Qubernatorluğu”
- Azerbaijani: “Müsəndəm mühafəzəsi”
- Basque: “Musandam gobernantzia”
- Basque: “Musandam”
- Bengali: “মুসান্দাম গভর্নোরেট”
- Catalan: “Musandam”
- Cebuano: “Musandam”
- Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای موسەندەم”
- Central Kurdish: “موسەندەم”
- Chinese: “穆桑代姆省”
- Croatian: “Musandam”
- Czech: “Musandam”
- Danish: “Musandam Governorate”
- Dutch: “Musandam”
- Estonian: “Musandami kubernerkond”
- Estonian: “Musandami provints”
- Finnish: “Musandam”
- French: “Gouvernorat de Moussandam”
- French: “Musandam”
- Galician: “Península de Musandam”
- German: “Musandam”
- Greek: “Μουσαντάμ”
- Gujarati: “મુસાન્ડમ ગવર્નોરેટ”
- Hausa: “Gwamnatin Musandam”
- Hebrew: “מוסנדם”
- Hindi: “मुसंदम”
- Hindi: “मुसन्दम मुहाफ़ज़ाह”
- Hindi: “मुसांडाम गवर्नरेट”
- Hungarian: “Muszandam kormányzóság”
- Indonesian: “Kegubernuran Musandam”
- Indonesian: “Musandam”
- Italian: “Governatorato di Musandam”
- Italian: “Penisola del Musandam”
- Japanese: “ムサンダム特別行政区”
- Javanese: “Gubernur Musandam”
- Kannada: “ಮುಸಂದಮ್ ಗವರ್ನೇಟ್”
- Kazakh: “Мусандам Округі”
- Kirghiz: “Мусандам Губернаторлугу”
- Korean: “무산담주”
- Latvian: “Musendemas muhāfaza”
- Lithuanian: “Musandamas”
- Malay: “Musandam”
- Malayalam: “മുസന്ധം”
- Marathi: “मुसामदाम गव्हर्नोरेट”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Musandam”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Musandam guvernement”
- Norwegian: “Musandam”
- Oromo: “Bakka Musandam”
- Ossetian: “Мусандам”
- Panjabi: “ਮੁਸੰਦਮ ਗਵਰਨਰ”
- Persian: “استان مسندم”
- Persian: “مسندم”
- Polish: “Muhafazat Musandam”
- Portuguese: “Moçandão”
- Portuguese: “Província de Moçandão”
- Pushto: “موسندم ولايت”
- Russian: “Мусандам”
- Scots: “Musandam Govrenorate”
- Serbian: “Мусандам”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Musandam”
- Sinhala: “මුසන්ඩම් පළාත”
- Slovenian: “Musandam”
- Somali: “Musandam Gobolka”
- Spanish: “Gobernación de Musandam”
- Spanish: “Musandam”
- Spanish: “Península de Musandam”
- Swahili: “Musandam”
- Swedish: “Musandam”
- Tajik: “Вилояти Мусандам”
- Tamil: “முசாந்தம் ஆளுநரகம்”
- Tamil: “முஸந்தம் கோவெர்னோரேட்”
- Tatar: “Мусандам Губернасы”
- Telugu: “ముసందం గవర్నరేట్”
- Thai: “เขตผู้ว่าราชการมุซันดัม”
- Turkish: “Musandam valiliği”
- Turkish: “Müsendem”
- Ukrainian: “Мусандам”
- Urdu: “محافظہ مسندم”
- Uzbek: “Musandam Guberniya”
- Uzbek: “Musandam muhofazasi”
- Vietnamese: “Musandam”
- Western Panjabi: “محافظہ مسندم”
- Wu Chinese: “穆桑代姆省”
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