The Sultanate of Oman, abbreviated as Oman, is a country located in Western Asia, on the southeast coast of the Arabian Peninsula, Oman is divided into 11 provinces by administrative region, under which there are 61 states, and the capital is Muscat. In 2021, Oman had a population of 4.49 million.
Oman is one of the oldest countries in the Arabian Peninsula. The oil and gas industry is Oman's pillar industry, accounting for 68% of the country's fiscal revenue and 41% of GDP.
The capital Muscat gathers two-thirds of the country's population, except for Sohar, other places called cities are comparable to the size of rural towns in the country, due to the high rate of private car ownership, public transportation is very weak, everywhere is self-driving, the highway is the whole speed monitoring, can not exceed 140.
Oman is not as popular as a tourist city like Dubai, Abu Dhabi, nor is it as chaotic as Yemen or other Arab war-torn countries across the wall. It is a country that is easy to ignore, rarely has controversial reports, and is easy to go unnoticed.
The capital Muscat, as the face of the country, is clean and tidy. The rest of the city has much shadily buildings, green and dusty. After all, the cost of maintaining vegetation in desert countries is too high, and the ground must be densely buried with water-seeping pipes before you can start laying vegetation, and the local cuisine is traditional Arabic cuisine, grilled seafood, roast lamb chicken and so on.
Like most other Middle Eastern countries, fruits and vegetables are scarce and mostly imported. If you have to eat pork and drink, there are also channels to get it. The vegetables that are produced locally are cabbage and potatoes, and you can also find roasted camel meat with very stuffed teeth. The dessert and other Arabic desserts are similar to date palm desserts, pastry and pudding with a lot of milk and sugar.
Foreigners living in the capital have a limited area if they want to buy a house, but the location is so good that you can't fault it. Rows of apartments and villas by the sea, and intentional greenery. Most of them are neat and low white buildings, and small and exquisite mosques will appear one by one. The whole city feels low-key and quiet and calm, and there are few outstanding buildings. Most foreigners also choose to live in the capital.
Libraries mean a lot to Omanis. There are no bookstores in Oman, only magazines and newspapers, and to contact slightly more specialized books, in addition to borrowing them from the library, you can only go to the monthly book market.
Oman attaches great importance to "gender distinction". In schools, boys and girls walk in different corridors, sitting on both sides of the classroom, boys enter through the front door of the classroom, girls enter through the back door, they can't even chat with each other between classes, and the canteen and dormitory are separated by a very long distance. Girls live on campus, while boys live close to schools.
Oman's traditional dress is white robes, and there are various colors of robes in informal occasions, not to mention gray, brown and black, and powder blue, powder blue, powder and blue.
Compared with the natives of other Gulf countries, they are warm, friendly, helpful, and greet strangers warmly, especially when they see girls. Omani locals are friendly and laid-back, and like to work in an air-conditioned environment, and the hot work is naturally handed over to friends in India and Pakistan or Jordan. In Oman, there are still few Chinese, and there are few tourists, and the number of resident Chinese is now about 2,000.
The low-end work is done by South Asians, mainly in three countries, India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. The customs check them very strictly, and the number of people is verified one by one, so the customs efficiency is extremely low. So Oman in the whole Middle East, not very rich, but not the poorest.
Oman's oil and gas resources cannot be said to be particularly abundant, but there are, and China is his big customer, and it can also ensure that its population of millions lives a moderately prosperous life.
The exchange rate of its currency is about 1:18RMB. If the bank does not have Omani currency, you can go to Muscat airport and exchange it for US dollars. Rental does not hit the meter, a bit of a pit person, come casually, and there is no invoice voucher or anything.
Oman may not be noticed, but it is the only country in the Arab region that has mountains, beaches and deserts. Because of its unique terrain, including beaches, deserts, Gobi, mountains, oases and other landscapes, it is known as the "Museum of the Earth". It is also possible to rent a boat to go out to see dolphins and turtles.