Khasab
Khasab is a city in the northwest Omani exclave of Musandam and home to about 18,000 inhabitants. It is the state capital of the Musandam peninsula on the coast of the Hormuz Strait between Iran, the United Arab Emirates and Oman.
- Type: City with 27,100 residents
- Description: city in Oman
- Also known as: “Al Khasab”, “Al Khaşab”, “Al Khasal”, “al-Ḫaṣab”, “Cacapo”, “Khaşab”, “ولايه خصب”, and “ハッサブ”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Khasab Airport.
Khasab
- Categories: province of Oman, human settlement, town, and locality
- Location: Musandam Governorate, Oman, Middle East, Asia
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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
UN/LOCODE
OM KHS
Open location code
7HRR56MW+MQ
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Western Panjabi—“Khasab” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ኃሳብ”
- Arabic: “خصب”
- Arabic: “ولاية خصب”
- Armenian: “Խասաբ”
- Asturian: “Khasab”
- Azerbaijani: “Hasab”
- Azerbaijani: “Xəsəb”
- Belarusian: “Эль-Хасаб”
- Bengali: “কাসাব”
- Bengali: “খাসাব”
- Bulgarian: “Кхасаб”
- Catalan: “Qasab”
- 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: “Chasab”
- German: “Khasab”
- Greek: “Χασάμπ”
- Greek: “Χάσαμπ”
- Gujarati: “ખસબ”
- Hausa: “Khasab”
- Hebrew: “ח’סב”
- Hindi: “खसब”
- Hindi: “खासाब”
- Indonesian: “Khasab”
- Irish: “Khasab”
- Italian: “Khasab”
- Japanese: “ハサブ”
- Javanese: “Khasab”
- Kannada: “ಖಸಾಬ್”
- Kazakh: “Хасаб”
- Kirghiz: “Хасаб”
- Korean: “하사브”
- Latvian: “Čabasa”
- Lithuanian: “Chasabas”
- Malay: “Khasab”
- Marathi: “खसब”
- Marathi: “खासाब”
- Mingrelian: “ხასაბი”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Khasab”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Khasab”
- Norwegian: “Khasab”
- Oromo: “Khasab”
- Ossetian: “Хасаб”
- Panjabi: “ਖਸਬ”
- Persian: “خصب”
- Polish: “Chasab”
- Portuguese: “Caçapo”
- Portuguese: “Cassapo”
- Portuguese: “Khasab”
- Pushto: “خصب”
- Russian: “Хасаб”
- Russian: “Эль-Хасаб”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Hasab”
- Sinhala: “ඛසබ්”
- Somali: “Khasab”
- Spanish: “Jasab”
- Spanish: “Khasab”
- Swahili: “Khasab”
- Swedish: “Khasab”
- Tajik: “Хасаб”
- Tamil: “சேகௌ”
- Tatar: “Хасаб”
- Telugu: “ఖసబ్”
- Thai: “เคาะศ็อบ”
- Turkish: “Hasab”
- Turkish: “Khasab”
- Ukrainian: “Ель-Хасаб”
- Ukrainian: “Хасаб”
- Urdu: “خصب، عمان”
- Urdu: “خصب”
- Uzbek: “Xasab”
- Vietnamese: “Khasab”
- Western Panjabi: “خصب”
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