Sohar

Sohar, officially: Suhar, is the capital and largest city of the in . An ancient capital of the country that once served as an important Islamic port town on the , Sohar has also been credited as the mythical birthplace of Sinbad the Sailor.
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  • Type: City with 271,000 residents
  • Description: a city in Oman
  • Also known as: “As Sohār, Al Sohar, Sohār, Aş Şuḩār, Şuḩār, As Sohar, Al Sohar, Sohar, As Suhar, Suhar”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Indian School Sohar.

School
is an English co-educational school for Indians in the Al Hambar area of Sohar, Oman. It was founded in 1982 and is managed by members of the Indian business community.

Sohar

Latitude
24.342° or 24° 20′ 31″ north
Longitude
56.7298° or 56° 43′ 47″ east
Population
271,000
Elevation
12 metres (39 feet)
IATA airport code
OHS
United Nations Location Code
OM SOH
Open location code
7HPR8PRH+QW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1719474006
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
286282
Wiki­data ID
Q943270
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Western Panjabi—“Sohar” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ሶሃር”
  • Arabic: “Aş Şuḩār”
  • Arabic: “Şuḩār”
  • Arabic: “الصحار”
  • Arabic: “صحار”
  • Arabic: “‏صحار‎”
  • Arabic: “ولاية صحار”
  • Asturian: “Sohar”
  • Azerbaijani: “Sohar”
  • Azerbaijani: “Sоhаr”
  • Basque: “Sohar”
  • Belarusian: “Сухар”
  • Bengali: “সুহার”
  • Bengali: “সোহার”
  • Catalan: “Suhar”
  • Cebuano: “Al Sohar”
  • Chinese: “勿巡”
  • Chinese: “沒巽”
  • Chinese: “苏哈尔”
  • Chinese: “蘇哈爾”
  • Czech: “Suhár”
  • Danish: “Sohar”
  • Dutch: “Sohar”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ولاية صحار”
  • Esperanto: “Suhar”
  • Esperanto: “Suharo”
  • Finnish: “Sohar”
  • French: “Sohar”
  • Galician: “Sohar”
  • German: “Suhar”
  • Greek: “Σοχάρ”
  • Gujarati: “સોહર”
  • Hausa: “Sohar”
  • Hebrew: “סוחאר”
  • Hindi: “सोहर”
  • Hindi: “सोहार”
  • Indonesian: “Sohar”
  • Italian: “Sohar”
  • Japanese: “スハール”
  • Japanese: “ソハール”
  • Javanese: “Sohar”
  • Kannada: “ಸೂಹಾರ್”
  • Kannada: “ಸೋಹರ್”
  • Kazakh: “Сохар”
  • Kirghiz: “Сохар”
  • Korean: “소하르”
  • Latvian: “Sohara”
  • Lithuanian: “Soharas”
  • Malay: “Sohar”
  • Marathi: “सोहर”
  • Mingrelian: “სოჰარი”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Suhar”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sohar”
  • Norwegian: “Suhar”
  • Oromo: “Sohar”
  • Ossetian: “Сухар”
  • Panjabi: “ਸੋਹਾਰ”
  • Persian: “صحار”
  • Polish: “Suhar”
  • Portuguese: “Soar”
  • Portuguese: “Sohar”
  • Portuguese: “Suhar”
  • Pushto: “صحار”
  • Russian: “Сухар”
  • Sinhala: “සොහාර්”
  • Somali: “Sohar”
  • Spanish: “Sohar”
  • Swahili: “Sohar”
  • Swedish: “Sohar”
  • Swedish: “Suhar”
  • Tajik: “Suhor”
  • Tajik: “Сохар”
  • Tajik: “Суҳор”
  • Tamil: “காசாபி”
  • Tatar: “Сохар”
  • Telugu: “సోహర్”
  • Thai: “ศุฮาร”
  • Turkish: “Sahar”
  • Turkish: “Suhar”
  • Ukrainian: “Cухар”
  • Ukrainian: “Сухар”
  • Urdu: “صحار”
  • Uzbek: “Sohar”
  • Uzbek: “Suhor”
  • Vietnamese: “Sohar”
  • Western Panjabi: “صحار”

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