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Oman

The Sultanate of Oman is on the eastern side of the . Under the radar of most visitors to the Gulf, Oman is peaceful and prosperous, with amazing natural sights and hospitable people.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Muscat and Salalah.

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is the capital of the Sultanate of Oman and its most important and populous city. It has been inhabited since at least 1000 BCE and for centuries was an important trading port on the Maritime Silk Road.

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is the capital city of Oman's southern region. It is the second largest city in the Sultanate, and has the distinction of being the Sultan Qaboos' birthplace.

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The are a range in stretching along the northern coast of Oman, from southwest of Muscat to the United Arab Emirates.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Northern Oman and Central Coastal Oman.

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is the region hosting the capital city , fertile Al-Batinah coast, majestic Hajar Mountains and the Musandam Peninsula. It borders the to the north and to the west.

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is in Oman. There are several in the area.

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is the southernmost region of Oman. It is best known for being one of the main producers of aromatic frankincense, both historically and in modern times.
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Oman

  • Type: Country with 2,580,000 residents
  • Description: sovereign state in western Asia
  • Also known as: “Masqat and Oman”, “om”, “omn”, “Salţanat ‘Umān”, “Salţanat Masqaţ wa ‘Umān”, “Sultanat Masqat wah Oman”, “Sultanate of Muscat and Oman”, “Sultanate of Musqat and Oman”, “Sultanate of Oman”, “Sultanate of Oman and Muscat”, and “Uman”
  • Languages: Arabic, English, Baluchi, and Urdu
  • Neighbors: , , , and
  • Categories: sovereign state, sultanate, and locality
  • Location: ,
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Latitude of center
20.55° or 20° 33′ north
Longitude of center
56.43° or 56° 25′ 48″ east
Population
2,580,000
Area
212,460 km² (82,031 miles²)
Elevation
129 metres (423 feet)
Capital
Currency
Rial (OMR)
Phone code
.om
Internet domain
968
Open­Street­Map ID
node 424315291
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­country
Geo­Names ID
286963
Wiki­data ID
Q842
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Oman” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Oman”
  • Adyghe: “Оман”
  • Afrikaans: “Oman”
  • Akan: “Oman”
  • Albanian: “Oman”
  • Albanian: “Omani”
  • Amharic: “ኦማን”
  • Amis: “Oman”
  • Angika: “ओमान”
  • Arabic: “‘Umān”
  • Arabic: “سلطنة عمان”
  • Arabic: “عمان”
  • Arabic: “عُمان”
  • Aragonese: “Omán”
  • Armenian: “Օման”
  • Arpitan: “Oman”
  • Assamese: “ওমান”
  • Asturian: “Omán”
  • Asturian: “Sultanatu d’Oman”
  • Atayal: “Oman”
  • Avaric: “ГӀуман”
  • Awadhi: “ओमान”
  • Azerbaijani: “Oman Sultanlığı”
  • Azerbaijani: “Oman”
  • Balinese: “Oman”
  • Bambara: “Omaŋ”
  • Bashkir: “Оман Солтанаты”
  • Bashkir: “Оман”
  • Basque: “Oman”
  • Bavarian: “Oman”
  • Belarusian: “Аман”
  • Belarusian: “Султанат Аман”
  • Belarusian: “Султанат Аману”
  • Bengali: “سلطنت عمان”
  • Bengali: “ওমান”
  • Betawi: “Oman”
  • Bhojpuri: “ओमान”
  • Bishnupriya: “ওমান”
  • Bislama: “Oman”
  • Bosnian: “Oman”
  • Brahui: “Omán”
  • Breton: “Oman”
  • Buginese: “Oman”
  • Buginese: “ᨕᨚᨆᨊ”
  • Bulgarian: “Оман”
  • Bulgarian: “Султанат Оман”
  • Burmese: “အိုမန်”
  • Burmese: “အိုမန်နိုင်ငံ”
  • Catalan: “Oman”
  • Catalan: “Sultanat d’Oman”
  • Cebuano: “Oman”
  • Central Bikol: “Oman”
  • Central Kurdish: “عومان”
  • Chavacano: “Oman”
  • Chavacano: “Omán”
  • Chechen: “Оман”
  • Chechen: “Ӏоман”
  • Chinese: “Āmàn”
  • Chinese: “Oman”
  • Chinese: “阿曼”
  • Chuvash: “Оман”
  • Cornish: “Oman”
  • Corsican: “Oman”
  • Corsican: “Sultanatu di l’Oman”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Oman”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Uman”
  • Croatian: “Oman”
  • Czech: “Omán”
  • Czech: “Sultanát Omán”
  • Dagbani: “Oman”
  • Danish: “Oman”
  • Dhivehi: “ޢުމާން”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Uman”
  • Dotyali: “ओमान”
  • Dutch: “OM”
  • Dutch: “Oman”
  • Dutch: “OMN”
  • Dutch: “Sultanaat Oman”
  • Dzongkha: “ཨོ་མཱན”
  • Eastern Mari: “Оман”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سلطنة عمان”
  • Esperanto: “OM”
  • Esperanto: “OMA”
  • Esperanto: “Omano”
  • Esperanto: “Sultanlando Omano”
  • Estonian: “Omaan”
  • Estonian: “Omaani Sultaniriik”
  • Ewe: “Oman nutome”
  • Extremaduran: “Omán”
  • Farefare: “Oman”
  • Faroese: “Oman”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Oman”
  • Finnish: “Oman”
  • Finnish: “Omanin sulttaanikunta”
  • French: “le Sultanat d’Oman”
  • French: “om”
  • French: “OM”
  • French: “OMA”
  • French: “Oman”
  • French: “Sultanat d’Oman”
  • Fulah: “Omaan”
  • Fulah: “Oman”
  • Gagauz: “Oman”
  • Galician: “Omán”
  • Ganda: “Omaani”
  • Georgian: “ომანი”
  • German: “Oman”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Oman”
  • Gilaki: “عۊمان”
  • Goan Konkani: “Oman”
  • Goan Konkani: “ओमान”
  • Greek: “Ομάν”
  • Guarani: “Omã”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Oman”
  • Gujarati: “ઓમાન”
  • Haitian: “Omàn”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Oman”
  • Hausa: “Oman”
  • Hawaiian: “ʻOmana”
  • Hebrew: “אומן”
  • Hebrew: “סולטנות עומאן”
  • Hebrew: “עומאן”
  • Hebrew: “עומן”
  • Hindi: “ओमान”
  • Hungarian: “Omán”
  • Hungarian: “Ománi Szultánság”
  • Icelandic: “Óman”
  • Ido: “Oman”
  • Igbo: “Oman”
  • Iloko: “Oman”
  • Inari Sami: “Oman sulttaankodde”
  • Inari Sami: “Oman”
  • Indonesian: “Oman”
  • Interlingua: “Oman”
  • Interlingue: “Oman”
  • Irish: “Óman”
  • Italian: “Oman”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Oman”
  • Japanese: “オマーン”
  • Japanese: “オマーン国”
  • Javanese: “Oman”
  • Kabardian: “Оман”
  • Kabyle: “Ɛumman”
  • Kadazan Dusun: “Oman”
  • Kalaallisut: “Oman”
  • Kalmyk: “Оманин Нутг”
  • Kannada: “ಒಮಾನ್”
  • Kannada: “ಓಮನ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Oman”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Umman”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Оман”
  • Kashmiri: “اومان”
  • Kashmiri: “عُمان”
  • Kashmiri: “ओमान”
  • Kashubian: “Òman”
  • Kazakh: “Оман”
  • Khmer: “អូម៉ង់”
  • Kikuyu: “Oman”
  • Kikuyu: “Omani”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Omani”
  • Kirghiz: “Оман”
  • Kölsch: “Omahn”
  • Komering: “Oman”
  • Komi: “Оман”
  • Kongo: “Oman”
  • Korean: “오만”
  • Kurdish: “Oman”
  • Ladin: “Oman”
  • Ladino: “Oman”
  • Lao: “ໂອມານ”
  • Latin: “Omana”
  • Latin: “Omania”
  • Latvian: “Omāna”
  • Lezghian: “Оман”
  • Ligurian: “Òman”
  • Limburgan: “Omaan”
  • Limburgan: “Oman”
  • Lingala: “Oman”
  • Lingala: “Ománɛ”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Uman”
  • Literary Chinese: “阿曼”
  • Lithuanian: “Omanas”
  • Livvi: “Oman”
  • Lojban: “lo gugde’omu”
  • Lombard: “Oman”
  • Low German: “Oman”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Oman”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Omane”
  • Luxembourgish: “Oman”
  • Macedonian: “Оман”
  • Madurese: “Oman”
  • Maithili: “ओमान”
  • Malagasy: “Oman”
  • Malagasy: “Omàna”
  • Malagasy: “Ômàna”
  • Malay: “Oman”
  • Malayalam: “ഒമാൻ”
  • Maltese: “l-Oman”
  • Maltese: “Oman”
  • Maltese: “Saltna tal-Oman”
  • Manipuri: “ꯑꯣꯃꯥꯟ”
  • Manx: “Sultanaght yn Omaan”
  • Manx: “yn Omaan”
  • Manx: “Yn Omaan”
  • Maori: “Omāna”
  • Marathi: “ओमान”
  • Mazanderani: “عمان”
  • Mazanderani: “عومان”
  • Mesopotamian Arabic: “سلطنة عمان”
  • Mesopotamian Arabic: “عمان”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Oman”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Oman”
  • Minangkabau: “Oman”
  • Mingrelian: “ომანი”
  • Mongolian: “Оман”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “عومان”
  • Nauru: “Oman”
  • Navajo: “Bidiltłish Shizhahí Bikéyah”
  • Nepali: “ओमन”
  • Nepali: “ओमान”
  • Newari: “ओमान”
  • North Ndebele: “Omani”
  • Northern Frisian: “Omaan”
  • Northern Luri: “عمان”
  • Northern Sami: “Oman sultanáhta”
  • Northern Sami: “Oman”
  • Northern Sami: “Omana sultanáhta”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Oman”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sultanatet Oman”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Oman”
  • Norwegian: “Oman”
  • Novial: “Oman”
  • Obolo: “Omaan”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Oman”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܥܘܡܐܢ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Oman”
  • Oriya: “ଓମାନ”
  • Oriya: “ଓମାନ୍”
  • Oromo: “Omaan”
  • Ossetian: “Оман”
  • Pali: “ओमान”
  • Pampanga: “Oman”
  • Panjabi: “ਉਮਾਨ”
  • Panjabi: “ਓਮਾਨ”
  • Papiamento: “Oman”
  • Persian: “عمان”
  • Piemontese: “Oman”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Omaan”
  • Polish: “Oman”
  • Polish: “Sułtanat Omanu”
  • Portuguese: “Omã”
  • Portuguese: “Omão”
  • Portuguese: “Sultanato de Omã”
  • Pushto: “عمان”
  • Quechua: “Omán”
  • Quechua: “Uman”
  • Romanian: “Oman”
  • Romansh: “Oman”
  • Rundi: “Omani”
  • Russia Buriat: “Оман”
  • Russian: “Оман”
  • Russian: “Султанат Оман”
  • Rusyn: “Оман”
  • Sakizaya: “Oman”
  • Samoan: “Oman”
  • Samoan: “Omani”
  • Samogitian: “Omans”
  • Sango: “Omâni”
  • Sanskrit: “ओमान”
  • Santali: “ᱳᱢᱟᱱ”
  • Saraiki: “عمان”
  • Sardinian: “Omàn”
  • Scots: “Oman”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Omàn”
  • Serbian: “Oman”
  • Serbian: “Оман”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Oman”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းဢူဝ်ႇမၢၼ်ႇ”
  • Shona: “Oman”
  • Shona: “Omani”
  • Sicilian: “Uman”
  • Silesian: “Uůmůn”
  • Sindhi: “اومان”
  • Sindhi: “سلطنت عمان”
  • Sindhi: “عمان”
  • Sinhala: “ඕමානය”
  • Skolt Sami: “Omaan sulttaankåʹdd”
  • Skolt Sami: “Omaan”
  • Slovak: “Omán”
  • Slovak: “Ománsky sultanát”
  • Slovenian: “Oman”
  • Somali: “Cumaan”
  • South Azerbaijani: “عومان”
  • Spanish: “Oman”
  • Spanish: “Omán”
  • Spanish: “Sultanato de Oman”
  • Spanish: “Sultanato de Omán”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵄⵓⵎⴰⵏ”
  • Sundanese: “Oman”
  • Swahili: “Oman”
  • Swahili: “Omani”
  • Swati: “IMani”
  • Swedish: “Oman”
  • Swedish: “Sultanatet Oman”
  • Swiss German: “Oman”
  • Sylheti: “ꠃꠝꠣꠘ”
  • Sylheti: “ꠅꠝꠣꠘ”
  • Tagalog: “Oman”
  • Tai Nüa: “ᥛᥫᥒᥰ ᥟᥨᥝᥱ ᥛᥣᥢᥱ”
  • Tajik: “Умон”
  • Tajik: “Ъумон”
  • Talysh: “Oman”
  • Tamil: “ஓமன்”
  • Tamil: “ஓமான்”
  • Taroko: “Oman”
  • Tatar: “Оман”
  • Telugu: “ఒమన్”
  • Telugu: “ఓమన్”
  • Tetum: “Omán”
  • Thai: “ประเทศโอมาน”
  • Thai: “โอมาน”
  • Tibetan: “ཨོ་མན།”
  • Tigrinya: “ኦማን”
  • Tok Pisin: “Oman”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “ʻOmani”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Oman”
  • Tumbuka: “Oman”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “سلطنة عمان”
  • Turkish: “Umman”
  • Turkmen: “Oman”
  • Udmurt: “Оман”
  • Uighur: “ئومان”
  • Ukrainian: “Оман”
  • Ukrainian: “Султанат Оман”
  • Ukrainian: “Уман”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Oman”
  • Urdu: “سلطنت عمان”
  • Urdu: “عمان”
  • Uzbek: “Oman”
  • Uzbek: “Ummon Sultonligi”
  • Uzbek: “Ummon”
  • Venetian: “Oman”
  • Venetian: “Omàn”
  • Veps: “Oman”
  • Vietnamese: “Ô-man”
  • Vietnamese: “Oman”
  • Vietnamese: “Vương quốc Hồi giáo Oman”
  • Vietnamese: “سلطنت عمان”
  • Vlax Romani: “Oman”
  • Volapük: “Lomän”
  • Võro: “Omaan”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Oman”
  • Welsh: “Oman”
  • Western Armenian: “Օման”
  • Western Frisian: “Oman”
  • Western Panjabi: “عمان”
  • Wolof: “Omaan”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿曼”
  • Xhosa: “Oman”
  • Yakut: “Оман”
  • Yiddish: “אמאן”
  • Yoruba: “Oman”
  • Yoruba: “Ọọma”
  • Yue Chinese: “阿曼”
  • Zeeuws: “Omaan”
  • Zeeuws: “Omaon”
  • Zhuang: “Oman”
  • Zulu: “i-Oman”
  • “ma Uman”
  • “OM”
  • “Omaan”
  • “Omān”
  • “Omans”
  • “OMN”
  • “ओमान”

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