Oman
Oman (officially Sultanate of Oman) is a country in Western Asia, with its capital at Muscat, and is home to roughly 5.3M people.
Arabic is the official language; the currency in circulation is Omani rial (ر.ع.); people from here are called Omani.
> INTEL_
> NOTABLE_
- »Oman is the oldest continuously independent state in the Arab world.
- »Its aflaj irrigation channels have distributed water by gravity for well over a thousand years.
> THE OUTLINE_
Oman straddles the Tropic of Cancer.
> BORDERS_
Oman touches three neighbours: Saudi Arabia to the west, United Arab Emirates to the northwest and Yemen to the southwest. Directions run from one centre to the other.
> THE CAPITAL_
Muscat is hemmed in between the Hajar mountains and the sea, with 16th-century Portuguese forts still guarding its harbour.
> SCALE_
312,837 km² (120,787 sq mi), 70th largest of 198 countries and territories on file, almost exactly the size of Poland.
Population 5,281,538, 124th of 198 on file. That averages 17 per km² (44 per sq mi).
> THE FLAG_
The national emblem, a khanjar dagger crossed with two swords, sits in the upper hoist. Red is traditional, white stands for peace and the Imamate, green for the Jebel Akhdar mountains.