Nizwa
Nizwa is the largest city in Ad Dakhiliyah Region in Oman and was the capital of Oman proper. Nizwa is about 140 km from the Omani capital Muscat. The population is estimated at around 83,544 people.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Andries Oudshoorn, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: City with 77,400 residents
- Description: city in Ad Dakhiliyah governorate, Oman
- Also known as: “Nazwah”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Nizwa Fort.
Nizwa Fort
Castle
Photo: Andries Oudshoorn, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Nizwa Fort is a large castle in Nizwa, Oman built in the seventeenth century. It is a popular tourist destination.
Nizwa
- Categories: province of Oman and locality
- Location: Ad Dakhiliyah Governorate, Northern Oman, Oman, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
22.9324° or 22° 55′ 57″ northLongitude
57.5311° or 57° 31′ 52″ eastPopulation
77,400Elevation
511 metres (1,677 feet)United Nations Location Code
OM NIZOpen location code
7HJVWGJJ+XCOpenStreetMap ID
node 1721750572OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Nizwa” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نزوى”
- Arabic: “ولاية نزوى”
- Armenian: “Նիզվա”
- Asturian: “Nizwa”
- Azerbaijani: “Nizvа”
- Basque: “Nizwa”
- Belarusian: “Нізва”
- Bengali: “নিজওয়া”
- Catalan: “Nizwa”
- Cebuano: “Nizwá”
- Chinese: “尼兹瓦”
- Chinese: “尼茲瓦”
- Czech: “Nazvá”
- Danish: “Nizwa”
- Dutch: “Nizwa”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ولايه نزوى”
- Finnish: “Nizwa”
- French: “Nizwa”
- German: “Nizwa”
- Greek: “Νιζουά”
- Gujarati: “નિઝ્વા”
- Hebrew: “ניזווא”
- Hebrew: “ניזווה”
- Hindi: “निज़वा”
- Indonesian: “Nizwa”
- Italian: “Nizwa”
- Japanese: “ニズワ”
- Kannada: “ನಿಜ್ವಾ”
- Korean: “니즈와”
- Latvian: “Nizva”
- Lithuanian: “Nizva”
- Malay: “Nizwa”
- Maltese: “Nizwa”
- Marathi: “निजावा”
- Mingrelian: “ნაზვა”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nizwa”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nizwa”
- Norwegian: “Nizwa”
- Ossetian: “Низва”
- Panjabi: “ਨਿਜ਼ਵਾ”
- Persian: “نزوی”
- Polish: “Nizwa”
- Portuguese: “Nizua”
- Portuguese: “Nizwa”
- Russian: “Назва”
- Russian: “Низва”
- Sinhala: “නිස්වා”
- Slovenian: “Nizva”
- Spanish: “Nizwa”
- Spanish: “Nizwá”
- Swedish: “Nizwa”
- Tamil: “நிஸ்வா”
- Telugu: “నిజ్వా”
- Thai: “นิซวา”
- Turkish: “Nizva”
- Turkish: “Nizve”
- Turkish: “Nizwa”
- Ukrainian: “Нізва”
- Urdu: “نزوی”
- Uzbek: “Nizvo”
- Vietnamese: “Nizwa”
- Western Panjabi: “نزویٰ”
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