Musandam Peninsula
The Musandam Peninsula is an exclave of Northern Oman. Musandam is the northernmost tip of a peninsula that juts northward into the Persian Gulf and is roughly divided along its length between Oman and the UAE.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Khasab and Dibba.
Khasab
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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.
Dibba
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Dibba Al-Baya is a small border town in the southeastern corner of Oman's Musandam Peninsula exclave. It faces the Emirati conurbation that is also called Dibba, which lies both in an exclave of the Sharjah Emirate and in the Fujairah emirate.
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Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kumzar.
Kumzar
Village
Kumzar, is a village in Musandam, the northernmost province of Oman. It is the second most northerly inhabited part of the country, and the most northerly inhabited part on its mainland, located on the Strait of Hormuz.
Musandam Peninsula
- Type: Peninsula
- Description: peninsula in Oman and in the United Arab Emirates
- Also known as: “Masandam Peninsula”, “Musandam”, “Oman Promontory”, “Ras Musandam”, and “Shibh Jazirat Musandam”
- Category: landform
- Location: Musandam Governorate, Northern Oman, Oman, Middle East, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Musandam Peninsula” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “شبه جزيرة مسندم”
- Arabic: “مسندم”
- Azerbaijani: “Musadam yarımadası”
- Azerbaijani: “Müsəndəm yarımadası”
- Basque: “Musandam penintsula”
- Bulgarian: “Мусандам”
- Catalan: “Ras Musandam”
- Cebuano: “Shibh Jazīrat Musandam”
- Chinese: “穆桑代姆半島”
- Dutch: “Ras Musandam”
- Esperanto: “Duoninsulo Musandam”
- Finnish: “Musandamin niemimaa”
- French: “Moussandam”
- French: “Musandam”
- Galician: “Península de Musandam”
- German: “Halbinsel Musandam”
- Greek: “Χερσόνησος Μουσαντάμ”
- Hebrew: “חצי האי מוסנדם”
- Hungarian: “Muszandam-félsziget”
- Italian: “penisola del Musandam”
- Italian: “Penisola di Musandam”
- Italian: “Ru’us Al Jibal,”
- Japanese: “ムサンダム半島”
- Kazakh: “Мусандам түбегі”
- Korean: “무산담 반도”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Musandam”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Musandamhalvøya”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Musandam”
- Persian: “شبه جزیره مسندم”
- Persian: “شبهجزیره مسندم”
- Polish: “Musandam (półwysep)”
- Polish: “Musandam”
- Portuguese: “Península de Moçandão”
- Portuguese: “Península de Musandam”
- Russian: “Мусандам”
- Russian: “Руус-эль-Джибаль”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Musandam”
- Slovenian: “Polotok Musandam”
- Swedish: “Musandam”
- Turkish: “Musendem Yarımadası”
- Ukrainian: “Мусандам (півострів)”
- Ukrainian: “Мусандам”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Musandam Peninsula”. Photo: StellarD, CC BY-SA 3.0.