Oman

[ oh-mahn ]

noun

1. Sultanate of Oman, an independent sultanate in southeastern Arabia. About 82,800 sq. mi. (212,380 sq. km). : Muscat. Formerly Mus·cat and O·man [muhs-, kat].
2. Gulf of Oman, a northwestern arm of the Arabian Sea, at the entrance to the Persian Gulf.

Oman

/ əʊˈmɑːn /

noun

1. a sultanate in SE Arabia, on the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea: the most powerful state in Arabia in the 19th century, ruling Zanzibar, much of the Persian coast, and part of Pakistan. Official language: Arabic. Official religion: Muslim. Currency: rial. Capital: Muscat. Pop: 3 154 134 (2013 est). Area: about 306 000 sq km (118 150 sq miles) Former name (until 1970)Muscat and Oman

Oman

1. Kingdom on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula on the Arabian Sea, bordered to the northwest by the United Arab Emirates , the west by Saudi Arabia , and the southwest by Yemen . Oman includes a tip of land on one side of the Strait of Hormuz at the entrance to the Persian Gulf .

Notes

Strategically located on trading and military routes between the Persian Gulf and Asia and east Africa , Oman has been occupied by the Portuguese, the Turks, and the Persians; since the beginning of the nineteenth century, it has maintained close relations with Britain .

Oman began exporting oil in 1967.

Example Sentences

His family believe he was kidnapped in July 2020 by Iranian agents in Dubai, where he was waiting for a connecting flight to India, and then forcibly taken to Iran via Oman.

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And then there are all the US military bases, dotted up and down the Arabian side of the Gulf, from Kuwait to Oman.

From BBC

The Greek-owned and flagged MV Sounion was abandoned by its crew off the coast of Oman after being struck on 21 August by the Yemeni rebel group.

From BBC

Earlier this summer, the militant group took some responsibility for a rare shooting attack near a Shia Muslim mosque in Oman's capital, Muscat.

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A search operation is under way to locate 16 missing crew members, 13 of whom are Indian, after an oil tanker capsized off the coast of Oman.

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