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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.
Inscription. 2006 (30th Session) The Aflaj Irrigation Systems of Oman are ancient water channels from 500 AD located in the regions of Dakhiliyah, Sharqiyah and Batinah. However, they represent a type of irrigation system as old as 5,000 years in the region named as qanat or kariz as originally named in Persia. [1]
SOHAR Port and Freezone is a deep-sea port and adjacent free zone in the Middle East, located in Sohar, Sultanate of Oman, midway between Dubai and Muscat. [1] With current investments exceeding $26 billion, it is one of the world's fastest growing port and free zone developments [2] and lies at the centre of global trade routes between Europe and Asia.
Wadi Bani Khalid. Wādī Banī Khālid (Arabic: وَادِي بَنِي خَالِد) is a wadi and a tourist attraction in Oman. [1] Its stream maintains a constant flow of water throughout the year. Large pools of water and boulders are scattered along the course of the wadi. As a geographical area, the wadi covers a large swathe of lowland ...
S. Strait of Hormuz. Categories: Landforms of Oman. Bodies of water by country. Water in Oman. Bodies of water of Asia by country. Hidden category: Commons category link from Wikidata.
In 2018, scientists confirmed the Gulf of Oman contains one of the world's largest marine dead zones, where the ocean contains little or no oxygen and marine wildlife cannot exist. The dead zone encompasses nearly the entire 165,000-square-kilometre (63,700 sq mi) Gulf of Oman and equivalent to the size of Florida, United States of America.
Oman, [b] officially the Sultanate of Oman, [c] is a country on the southeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula in West Asia. It 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 as of 2024 ...
Countdown to Looking Glass is a Canadian made-for-television movie that premiered in the United States on HBO on October 14, 1984 and was also broadcast on CTV in Canada. The movie presents a fictional confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over the Strait of Hormuz, the gateway to the Persian Gulf.