Sultanate of Oman سلطنة عُمان Salṭanat ʻUmān | |
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| Anthem: نشيد السلام السلطاني "as-Salām as-Sultānī" "Sultanic Salutation" | |
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| Capital and largest city | Muscat 23°36′N 58°33′E / 23.600°N 58.550°E |
| Official languages | Arabic |
| Demonym(s) | Omani |
| Government | Unitary Islamic absolute monarchy |
• Sultan | Haitham bin Tariq Al Said |
| Fahd bin Mahmoud al Said[1] | |
| Legislature | none |
| Establishment | |
• The Azd tribe migration | Late 2nd century |
| 751 | |
| Area | |
• Total | 309,501 km2 (119,499 sq mi) (70th) |
• Water (%) | negligible |
| Population | |
• 2023 estimate | 5,431,355 |
• 2010 census | 2,773,479[3] |
• Density | 9.2/km2 (23.8/sq mi) (220th) |
| GDP (PPP) | 2012 estimate |
• Total | $90.055 billion[4] |
• Per capita | $29,166[4] |
| GDP (nominal) | 2012 estimate |
• Total | $76.464 billion[4] |
• Per capita | $24,764[4] |
| HDI (2013) |  0.731[5]high · 100th |
| Currency | Rial (OMR) |
| Time zone | UTC+4 (GST) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+4 |
| Driving side | right |
| Calling code | +968 |
| ISO 3166 code | OM |
| Internet TLD | .om, عمان. |
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Oman, officially the Sultanate of Oman, is a country in the southwestern part of Asia, on the southeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It borders the United Arab Emirates to the northwest, Saudi Arabia to the west, and Yemen to the southwest. The coast is formed by the Arabian Sea to the south and east, and the Gulf of Oman to the northeast. The capital is Muscat.[6]
The country is a Absolute monarchy, ruled by a Sultan, and the people are called Omanis. Right now, the sultan is Haitham bin Tariq Al Said. For a long time, the British have supported the sultans of Oman. In the 1960s and 1970s, some Omanis started a revolution to overthrow the sultan and end oppression, but the sultan defeated them with the help of Great Britain.[7]
- ↑ "Cabinet Ministers". Government of Oman. Archived from the original on 22 December 2013. Retrieved 13 October 2010.
- ↑ Oman. MSN Encarta. Archived from the original on 2009-11-01. Retrieved 2012-03-04.
In 751 Ibadi Muslims, a moderate branch of the Kharijites, established an imamate in Oman. Despite interruptions, the Ibadi imamate survived until the mid-20th century.
- ↑ "Final Results of Census 2010" (PDF). National Center for Statistics & Information. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 May 2013. Retrieved 7 January 2012.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 "Oman". International Monetary Fund. Retrieved 20 April 2012.
- ↑ UNDP (2011). Human Development Report 2011 (PDF). United Nations Development Programme. p. 132. ISBN 978-0-230-36331-1. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-06-17. Retrieved 2013-07-15.
- ↑ "Oman country profile". BBC News. 2011-08-24. Retrieved 2024-12-09.
- ↑ Takriti, Abdel Razzaq (2016-08-25). Monsoon Revolution: Republicans, Sultans, and Empires in Oman, 1965-1976. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-251561-2.