Khasab

Khasab is a city in the northwest Omani exclave of and home to about 18,000 inhabitants. It is the state capital of the Musandam peninsula on the coast of the Hormuz Strait between , the and Oman.
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  • Type: City with 27,100 residents
  • Description: city in Oman
  • Also known as: Al Khasab”, “Al Khaşab”, “Al Khasal”, “Al-Khasab”, and “Khaşab

Places of Interest

Highlights include Khasab Airport.

Aerodrome
is an airport serving Khasab, a harbor city in and capital of the The harbor opens onto the . The airport lies in a valley between two close mountain ridges.

Khasab

Latitude
26.1841° or 26° 11′ 3″ north
Longitude
56.247° or 56° 14′ 49″ east
Population
27,100
Elevation
13 metres (43 feet)
IATA airport code
KHS
United Nations Location Code
OM KHS
Open location code
7HRR56MW+MQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1718116417
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
287614
Wiki­data ID
Q426646
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Khasab” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: خصب
  • Arabic: ولاية خصب
  • Arabic: ولايه خصب
  • Asturian: Khasab
  • Azerbaijani: Xəsəb
  • Belarusian: Эль-Хасаб
  • Bengali: কাসাব
  • Bulgarian: Кхасаб
  • Cebuano: Khasab
  • Chinese: 加薩
  • Chinese: 海塞卜
  • Czech: Chasab
  • Danish: Khasab
  • Dutch: Khasab
  • Egyptian Arabic: ولاية خصب
  • Finnish: Khasab
  • French: Al-Khasab
  • French: Khasab
  • German: al-Chasab
  • German: Al-Chasab
  • German: al-Ḫaṣab
  • German: Chasab
  • German: Khasab
  • Greek: Χασάμπ
  • Greek: Χάσαμπ
  • Gujarati: ખસબ
  • Hebrew: ח’סב
  • Hindi: खसब
  • Hindi: खासाब
  • Indonesian: Khasab
  • Irish: Khasab
  • Italian: Khasab
  • Japanese: ハサブ
  • Japanese: ハッサブ
  • Kannada: ಖಸಾಬ್
  • Korean: 하사브
  • Latvian: Čabasa
  • Lithuanian: Chasabas
  • Malay: Khasab
  • Marathi: खसब
  • Mingrelian: ხასაბი
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Khasab
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Khasab
  • Norwegian: Khasab
  • Ossetian: Хасаб
  • Persian: خصب
  • Polish: Chasab
  • Portuguese: Cacapo
  • Portuguese: Caçapo
  • Portuguese: Cassapo
  • Portuguese: Khasab
  • Russian: Хасаб
  • Russian: Эль-Хасаб
  • Serbo-Croatian: Hasab
  • Sinhala: ඛසබ්
  • Spanish: Jasab
  • Spanish: Khasab
  • Swedish: Khasab
  • Tamil: சேகௌ
  • Telugu: ఖసబ్
  • Thai: เคาะศ็อบ
  • Turkish: Khasab
  • Ukrainian: Ель-Хасаб
  • Ukrainian: Хасаб
  • Urdu: خصب، عمان
  • Urdu: خصب
  • Uzbek: Xasab
  • Vietnamese: Khasab
  • Western Panjabi: خصب

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