Oman

Facts

What the numbers say about Oman

• Russia, the largest place listed, is 54.6× the size of Oman.
• Oman ranks 71st of 239 by area but only 125th of 237 by population: it holds fewer people than its size suggests.
• At 16 people per km², Oman is the 161st most densely populated of the 185 places over 1,000 km²; the median is 72 per km².
• Oman lies at 21°N, close to the equator, where a standard web map (Web Mercator) is nearly true to size: it inflates area by only about 1.1×.
• Laid out flat, Oman's main territory stretches about 1,080 km north to south and 816 km east to west.
• Wikidata's official figure of 310,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 311,000 km², to within 2%.

How Oman measures up

Oman holds 1.0% of the land area and 0.1% of the people of the 51 countries listed for Asia. In Western Asia it is the 5th largest of 19.

Where Oman sits

• Oman's centre lies at 20.6°N, 56.1°E, in the northern and eastern hemispheres, about 2,290 km from the equator.
• Its main territory spans 17°N to 26°N, about 1,080 km from its southern edge to its northern.

If Oman had other densities

• At Bangladesh's density of 1,252 people per km², Oman would have 389.8 million people. It has 4.8 million.
• At Canada's density of 3.7 people per km², Oman would have 1.2 million people. It has 4.8 million.
• At the median density of the places listed, 72 per km², it would have 22.5 million.

Compare Oman

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