Sohar
Sohar is the capital and largest city of the Al Batinah North Governorate in Oman. An ancient capital of the country that once served as an important Islamic port town on the Gulf of Oman, Sohar has also been credited as the mythical birthplace of Sinbad the Sailor.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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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.
Indian School Sohar
School
Indian School Sohar 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
- Categories: province of Oman and locality
- Location: Al Batinah North Governorate, Northern Oman, Oman, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
24.342° or 24° 20′ 31″ northLongitude
56.7298° or 56° 43′ 47″ eastPopulation
271,000Elevation
12 metres (39 feet)IATA airport code
OHSUnited Nations Location Code
OM SOHOpen location code
7HPR8PRH+QWOpenStreetMap ID
node 1719474006OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
286282Wikidata ID
Q943270
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Sohar” goes by many names.
- 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”
- 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”
- Esperanto: “Suhar”
- Esperanto: “Suharo”
- Finnish: “Sohar”
- French: “Sohar”
- Galician: “Sohar”
- German: “Suhar”
- Greek: “Σοχάρ”
- Gujarati: “સોહર”
- Hebrew: “סוהר”
- Hebrew: “סוחאר”
- Hindi: “सोहर”
- Hindi: “सोहार”
- Indonesian: “Sohar”
- Italian: “Sohar”
- Japanese: “スハール”
- Japanese: “ソハール”
- Kannada: “ಸೋಹರ್”
- Korean: “소하르”
- Latvian: “Sohara”
- Lithuanian: “Soharas”
- Malay: “Sohar”
- Marathi: “सोहर”
- Mingrelian: “სოჰარი”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Suhar”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sohar”
- Norwegian: “Suhar”
- Ossetian: “Сухар”
- Persian: “صحار”
- Polish: “Suhar”
- Portuguese: “Soar”
- Portuguese: “Sohar”
- Portuguese: “Suhar”
- Russian: “Сухар”
- Sinhala: “සොහාර්”
- Spanish: “Sohar”
- Swedish: “Sohar”
- Swedish: “Suhar”
- Tajik: “Suhor”
- Tajik: “Суҳор”
- Tamil: “காசாபி”
- Telugu: “సోహర్”
- Thai: “ศุฮาร”
- Turkish: “Sahar”
- Turkish: “Suhar”
- Ukrainian: “Cухар”
- Ukrainian: “Сухар”
- Urdu: “صحار”
- Uzbek: “Suhor”
- Vietnamese: “Sohar”
- Western Panjabi: “صحار”
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