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Exclusive economic zone. 533,180 km 2 (205,862 sq mi) Oman is a country on the southeast coast of the Arabian Peninsula, situated in West Asia, bordering the Arabian Sea, Gulf of Oman, and Persian Gulf, between Yemen and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The coast of Oman was an important part in the Omani empire and sultanate.
Satellite view of the Arabian Peninsula. The Arabian Peninsula [1] (/ ə ˈ r eɪ b i ə n ... /; Arabic: شِبْهُ الْجَزِيرَة الْعَرَبِيَّة, shibhu l-jazīra l-ʿarabiyya, "Arabian Peninsula" or جَزِيرَةُ الْعَرَب, jazīratu l-ʿarab, "Island of the Arabs"), [2] or Arabia, is a peninsula in West Asia, situated northeast of Africa on the Arabian Plate.
Oman, [b] officially the Sultanate of Oman, [c] is a country in Arabia. It is located on the southeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula, and overlooks the mouth of the Persian Gulf. 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 ...
This is a list of cities and towns in Oman. Adam. As Sib. Al Ashkharah. Al Buraimi. Al Hamra. Al Jazer. Al Madina A'Zarqa (formerly known as Blue City) Al Suwaiq.
The Arab states of the Persian Gulf or the Arab Gulf states (Arabic: دول الخليج العربي) [1] refers to a group of Arab states bordering the Persian Gulf. There are seven member states of the Arab League in the region: Bahrain, Kuwait, Iraq, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. [2][3][4] Yemen is bound to the ...
View of the Gulf of Aqaba near Nuweiba, Egypt. The gulf measures 24 km (15 mi) at its widest point and stretches some 160 km (100 mi) north from the Straits of Tiran to where Israel meets Egypt and Jordan. The city of Aqaba is the largest on the gulf. Like the coastal waters of the Red Sea, the gulf is one of the world's premier sites for diving.
The Arabian Sea as defined by the International Hydrographic Organization. The Arabian Sea (Arabic: بَحرُ ٱلْعَرَبْ, romanized: baḥr al-ʿarab) [1] is a region of sea in the northern Indian Ocean, bounded on the west by the Arabian Peninsula, Gulf of Aden and Guardafui Channel, on the northwest by Gulf of Oman and Iran, on the north by Pakistan, on the east by India, and on the ...
UTC+4 (Oman Standard Time) Sohar (Arabic: صُحَار, romanized: Ṣuḥār) 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, [4] Sohar has also been credited as the mythical birthplace of Sinbad the Sailor. [5]