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These geographic barriers kept the interior of Oman free from foreign military encroachments. The southwestern corner of Oman's exclusive economic zone is situated a few miles off the Puntland-adjacent Yemeni archipelago of Socotra, which lies amidst the Guardafui Channel and the Somali Sea to the south. [4]
Geographic limits of the map: N: 26.6° N; S: 16.5° N; W: 51.8° E; E: 60.1° E; Date: 6 July 2009: Source: Own work, using United States National Imagery and Mapping Agency data; World Data Base II data; Author: NordNordWest: Other versions: Derivative works of this file: Flag map of Oman.svg; Oman location map Topographic.png
An enlargeable topographic map of Oman. Geography of Oman. Oman is: a country; Location: Northern Hemisphere and Eastern Hemisphere; Eurasia. Asia. Southwest Asia; Middle East. Arabian Peninsula; Time zone: UTC+04; Extreme points of Oman High: Jabal Shams 2,980 m (9,777 ft) Low: Arabian Sea 0 m; Land boundaries: 1,374 km Saudi Arabia 676 km
Oman, [b] officially the Sultanate of Oman, [c] is a country on the southeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula in West Asia. It shares land borders with Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. The capital and largest city is Muscat. Oman has a population of about 5.28 million as of 2024, which is a 4.60% population increase from 2023.
A 2003 World Bank study stated: "In World Bank geographic classification, the following 21 countries or territories constitute the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region: six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) members (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates [UAE]), and 15 other countries or territories: Algeria ...
English: A map of the hemisphere centred on 56, 21.5, using an orthographic projection, created using gringer's Perl script with Natural Earth Data (1:50000 resolution, simplified to 0.25px). Oman is highlighted in red.
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The Arab world consists of 22 countries [citation needed] located in Western Asia, Northern Africa, the Maghreb, the Horn of Africa, and the Indian Ocean. It covers a combined area of 13 million km 2. It extends from Morocco in the west, southward to the Comoros, eastward to Somalia, and northward to Iraq.