Oman

Oman

Oman ranks 164th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Fiji, The Gambia, and French Guiana. Memorable people born in present day Oman include Qaboos bin Said al Said, Haitham bin Tariq, and Said bin Taimur. Memorable people who died in Oman include Qaboos bin Said al Said, Avicii, and Jamshid bin Abdullah of Zanzibar. Oman has been the birth place of many politicians, and soccer players and the death place of many politicians, and musicians.

Oman, officially the Sultanate of Oman, is a country in the southeastern Arabian Peninsula in West Asia. It shares land borders with Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. Oman's coastline faces the Arabian Sea to the southeast and the Gulf of Oman on the northeast. The exclaves of Madha and Musandam are surrounded by the UAE on their land borders, while Musandam's coastal boundaries are formed by the Strait of Hormuz and the Gulf of Oman. It has a population of approximately 5.46 million and an area of 309,960 km2. Muscat is the capital and largest city. Read more on Wikipedia