Oman, authoritatively the Sultanate of Oman, is an Arab nation on the southeastern bank of the Arabian Peninsula in Western Asia. Its official religion is Islam. Holding a deliberately significant position at the mouth of the Persian Gulf, the nation shares land outskirts with the United Arab Emirates toward the northwest, Saudi Arabia toward the west, and Yemen toward the southwest, and offers marine fringes with Iran and Pakistan. The coast is shaped by the Arabian Sea on the southeast and the Gulf of Oman on the upper east. The Madha and Musandam exclaves are encompassed by the UAE on their territory outskirts, with the Strait of Hormuz (which it imparts to Iran) and Gulf of Oman framing Musandam's seaside limits. From the late seventeenth century, the Omani Sultanate was an incredible domain, competing with Portugal and the UK for impact in the Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean. At its crest in the nineteenth century, Omani impact or control stretched out over the Strait of Hormuz to cutting edge Iran and Pakistan, and as far south as Zanzibar. At the point when its capacity declined in the twentieth century, the sultanate went under the impact of the United Kingdom. For more than 300 years, the relations worked between the two domains depended on shared advantages. The UK perceived Oman's land significance as an exchanging center point that verified their exchange paths the Arabian Gulf and Indian Ocean and ensured their realm in the Indian sub-landmass. On the other hand, the British reinforced Oman's interior solidarity and unified the sultanate against outside dangers.

Muscat is the capital and biggest city of Oman. It is the seat of the Governorate of Muscat. The metropolitan zone ranges around 3,500 km2 (1,400 sq mi) and incorporates six regions called wilayats. Known since the mid first century CE as a significant exchanging port between the west and the east, Muscat was administered by different indigenous clans just as remote powers, for example, the Persians, the Portuguese Empire, the Iberian Union and the Ottoman Empire at different focuses in its history. A provincial military power in the eighteenth century, Muscat's impact reached out similar to East Africa and Zanzibar. As a significant port-town in the Gulf of Oman, Muscat pulled in outside tradesmen and pioneers, for example, the Persians and the Balochis. Since the climb of Qaboos container Said as Sultan of Oman in 1970, Muscat has encountered fast infrastructural improvement that has prompted the development of an energetic economy and a multi-ethnic culture. The rough Western Al Hajar Mountains command the scene of Muscat. The city lies on the Arabian Sea along the Gulf of Oman and is in the nearness of the key Straits of Hormuz. Low-lying white structures embody the greater part of Muscat's urban scene, while the port-locale of Muttrah, with its corniche and harbor, structure the north-eastern fringe of the city. Muscat's economy is overwhelmed by Trade, Petroleum, Liquified Natural Gas and Porting.

The Arabian oryx or white (Oryx leucoryx) is a medium-sized gazelle with an unmistakable shoulder knock, long, straight horns, and a tufted tail. It is a bovid, and the littlest individual from the sort Oryx, local to leave and steppe territories of the Arabian Peninsula. The Arabian oryx was terminated in the wild by the mid 1970s, yet was spared in zoos and private jelly, and was reintroduced into the wild beginning in 1980. An Arabian oryx remains around 1 m (39 in) high at the shoulder and weighs around 70 kg (150 lb). Its jacket is a practically iridescent white, the undersides and legs are darker, and dark stripes happen where the head meet the neck, on the forehead, on the nose, and going starting from the horn over the eye to the mouth. Both genders have long, straight or somewhat bended, ringed horns which are 50 to 75 cm (20 to 30 in) long. Arabian oryx rest amid the warmth of the day and can distinguish precipitation and move towards it, which means they have colossal reaches; a group in Oman can extend more than 3,000 km2 (1,200 sq mi). Crowds are of blended sex and for the most part contain somewhere in the range of two and 15 creatures, however groups up to 100 have been reported. Arabian oryx are commonly not forceful toward each other, which enables groups to exist gently for some time.