The oldest continuously independent state in the Arab world, and its frankincense trade shaped antiquity.
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Oman
Sultanate of Oman ยท ุนู
ุงู
Asia
ยท Western Asia
0Population
309.5Kkmยฒ of land
$15.34KGDP / person
MuscatCapital
- ISO codes
- OM ยท OMN
- Density
- 16 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- Arabic
- Currency
- Omani rial (OMR)
- Dial code
- +968
- Internet domain
- .om
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 22.1200ยฐ N, 57.3370ยฐ E
- Demonym
- Omani
- UN region
- Western Asia
- Economy
- Developing region
- Income group
- High income: nonOECD
- Total GDP
- $76.33B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 3
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By the numbers
How Oman stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
123rd
of 242 ยท 0.06% of world population
Land area
73rd
of 242 ยท 0.21% of world land
GDP per person
84th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
203rd
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Oman
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 4,974,986 people, the 123rd largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly one in 1,543 of everyone alive.
Covers 309,500 kmยฒ, making it the 73rd largest country here - about 10.1 times the size of Belgium.
Population density is about 16 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Muscat, at 23.61ยฐ N, 58.59ยฐ E, with a metropolitan population of about 734,697.
Shares land borders with 3 countries: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Yemen.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, Asia/Muscat.
The currency is the Omani rial (OMR, symbol ุฑ.ุน.).
The official language is Arabic.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Asia/Muscat
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UTC+04:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
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Muscat
Muscat
23.6133ยฐ N, 58.5933ยฐ E
734.7K
Land neighbours
3 countries share a border with Oman.