!!!Oman: Geography
||Location|Middle East, bordering the Arabian Sea, Gulf of Oman, and Persian Gulf, between Yemen and UAE
||Geographic Coordinates|21 00 N, 57 00 E[{GoogleMap location='21.0,57.0' zoom='4'}]
||Area |''total: ''309,500 sq km\\''land: ''309,500 sq km\\''water: ''0 sq km__\\''We are unable to verify those figures from Factbook, since the 6 main sources we used for checking give different figures as follows:\\[Factbook|https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook]: 309500\\ [DBpedia|http://dbpedia.org]: 309498\\ [Geoname|http://www.geonames.org]: 212460\\ [Infoplease|http://www.infoplease.com]: 212460\\ [Britannica|http://www.britannica.com]: 309500\\ [Wolfram|http://www.wolframalpha.com]: 309500''__\\__Attempted Explanation__: Please help us to try to explain the discrepancies by sending us helpful information to [office@global-geography.org|mailto:office@global-geography.org]
||Land boundaries|''total: ''1,573 km\\''border countries: ''Saudi Arabia 676 km, UAE 609 km, Yemen 288 km
||Coastline|2,092 km
||Elevation Extremes|''lowest point: ''Arabian Sea 0 m\\''highest point: ''Jabal Shams 2,980 m
||Highest Mountains|__Due to difference in mountain rankings taken from two data sources we are listing here both lists :__\\ According to [Wolfram|http://www.wolframalpha.com]: Jebel Shams 3009 m; Jebel Misht 2090 m\\According to [Geonames|http://www.geonames.org]: Jabal Shams 3005 m; Ra’s al Haraq 2416 m; Qarn al Hammam 2356 m\\ \\__Attempted Explanation:__ Please help us to try to explain the discrepancies by sending us helpful information to [office@global-geography.org|mailto:office@global-geography.org]
||Terrain|central desert plain, rugged mountains in north and south
||Natural Hazards|summer winds often raise large sandstorms and dust storms in interior; periodic droughts
||Natural Resource|petroleum, copper, asbestos, some marble, limestone, chromium, gypsum, natural gas
||Land Use|''arable land: ''0.1%\\''permanent crops: ''0.12%\\''other: ''99.77% (2011)
||Climate|dry desert; hot, humid along coast; hot, dry interior; strong southwest summer monsoon (May to September) in far south
||Irrigated Land|588.5 sq km (2004)
||Renewable Water Resources|1.4 cu km (2011)
||Environment_CurrentIssues|rising soil salinity; beach pollution from oil spills; limited natural freshwater resources
||Environment - international agreements|''party to: ''Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Whaling\\''signed, but not ratified: ''none of the selected agreements
||Large Cities|__Due to difference in city rankings taken from two data sources we are listing here both lists :__\\According to [Wolfram|http://www.wolframalpha.com]: as-Sib; Bawsar; Salalah; Matruh; Suhar\\According to [Geonames|http://www.geonames.org]: Muscat; Seeb; Salalah; Bawshar; Al Sohar\\\\\__Attempted Explanation:__ Please help us to try to explain the discrepancies by sending us helpful information to [office@global-geography.org|mailto:office@global-geography.org] \\[Important Cities|Geography/Asia/Oman/Geography/Important_Cities]
||Geography-note|strategic location on Musandam Peninsula adjacent to Strait of Hormuz, a vital transit point for world crude oil