Sur
Sur is the capital city of Ash Sharqiyah South Governorate, and the former capital of Ash Sharqiyah Region in northeastern Oman, on the coast of the Gulf of Oman.
- Type: City with 96,400 residents
- Description: city in Oman
- Also known as: “As Sūr”, “Sur, Oman”, “Şūr, Sur”, and “צור”
Sur
- Categories: province of Oman and locality
- Location: Ash Sharqiyah South Governorate, Central Coastal Oman, Oman, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
22.5693° or 22° 34′ 10″ north
Longitude
59.5296° or 59° 31′ 46″ east
Population
96,400
Elevation
6 metres (20 feet)
IATA airport code
SUH
UN/LOCODE
OM SUH
Open location code
7HJXHG9H+PR
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Vietnamese—“Sur” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ሱር”
- Arabic: “Şūr”
- Arabic: “صور”
- Arabic: “ولاية صور”
- Asturian: “Sur”
- Azerbaijani: “Sur”
- Basque: “Sur”
- Belarusian: “Сур”
- Bengali: “সুর”
- Bengali: “সোর”
- Catalan: “Sur”
- Cebuano: “Şūr (kapital sa lalawigan sa Oman)”
- Cebuano: “Şūr”
- Chinese: “苏尔”
- Chinese: “蘇爾”
- Czech: “Súr”
- Danish: “Sur”
- Dutch: “Sur”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ولاية صور”
- Finnish: “Sur”
- French: “Sour”
- German: “Sur”
- Greek: “Σουρ”
- Gujarati: “સુર”
- Hausa: “Sur”
- Hebrew: “סור”
- Hindi: “सुर”
- Hindi: “सूर”
- Hungarian: “Szúr”
- Indonesian: “Sur”
- Italian: “Sur”
- Japanese: “スール”
- Javanese: “Sur”
- Kannada: “ಸುರ್, ಓಮನ್”
- Kannada: “ಸೂರ್”
- Kazakh: “Сур”
- Kirghiz: “Сур”
- Korean: “수르”
- Latvian: “Sura”
- Lithuanian: “Suras”
- Malay: “Sur, Oman”
- Malay: “Sur”
- Marathi: “सुर”
- Mingrelian: “სური”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sur”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sur i Oman”
- Norwegian: “Sur”
- Oromo: “Sur”
- Ossetian: “Сур”
- Panjabi: “ਸੂਰ”
- Persian: “صور”
- Polish: “Sur”
- Portuguese: “Sur”
- Pushto: “صور”
- Russian: “Сур”
- Scots: “Sur, Oman”
- Scots: “Sur”
- Sinhala: “සර්,ඕමාන්”
- Slovenian: “Sur, Oman”
- Slovenian: “Sur”
- Somali: “Sur”
- Spanish: “Sur”
- Swahili: “Sur”
- Swedish: “Sur”
- Tajik: “Сур”
- Tamil: “ஜூகுரான்”
- Tatar: “Сур”
- Telugu: “సుర్”
- Thai: “ศูร”
- Turkish: “Sur, Umman”
- Turkish: “Sur”
- Ukrainian: “Сур”
- Urdu: “صور، عمان”
- Urdu: “صور”
- Uzbek: “Sur (Ummon)”
- Uzbek: “Sur”
- Vietnamese: “Sur”
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