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Oman

Oman is one of the 193 UN member states, in Western Asia. UN Tourism counted 3.5 million international arrivals there in 2019, more visited than 59% of the 199 places with figures, so its stamp in Globestamp is printed in Colour-shift.

Oman’s stamp in Globestamp
Colour-shift · 2 to 6 million visitors a year
International arrivals
3.5 millionin 2019, UN Tourism
Rank by visitors
83rd of 199most visited first
Stamp finish
Colour-shiftrarer than 41%
Area
312,103 km² (120,503 sq mi)
Population
5 millionNatural Earth estimate
Regions
11in Globestamp’s regions layer
Airports
5with scheduled flights
World Heritage Sites
5on Globestamp’s list

Does Oman count as a country?

Yes. Oman is one of the 193 UN member states, so every common list counts it: the UN’s 193, Globestamp’s 250 and the Travelers’ Century Club’s 330.

ListCounts Oman?
UN member states (193)Yes, a member
Globestamp’s countries and territories (250)Yes
Travelers’ Century Club (330)Yes, as Oman
European UnionNo
Schengen areaNo

The Oman stamp

Every country in Globestamp has its own stamp, drawn after a real entry stamp. Its finish shows how few travelers get there. Oman’s is Colour-shift: one colour straight on, another at an angle, the finish for places with 2 to 6 million visitors a year. With 3.5 million international arrivals in 2019, Oman is more visited than 59% of the 199 places with figures. See every stamp on the stamp wall, or the rarest on the least-visited countries.

What counts as a visit to Oman

The common rule among travelers is that you set foot there: an airport layover usually doesn’t count, and a port where you went ashore does. Globestamp counts Oman when one of your photos was taken on its ground, or just off its coast; a photo taken from a plane never counts. Photos only at an airport make a transit stamp in lighter ink, counted only if you count layovers. Read more in how to count the countries you’ve visited.

Places in Oman you can collect

Under the country itself, Globestamp keeps layers of places on your globe, and a photo taken at one ticks it. These are the ones it knows in Oman, from 5 World Heritage Sites.

World Heritage Sites 5

Bahla Fort (1987) · Aflaj Irrigation System of Oman (2006) · Land of Frankincense (2000) · Qalhat (2018) · Bat, Al-Khutm and Al-Ayn archaeological sites (1988). On the bucket list →

Largest cities

CityPeople (urban area)
Muscat734,697
Seeb237,816
Salalah203,877
Suhar151,349
Ibri101,640
Nizwa72,076
Sur71,152

Airports

Oman has 5 airports with scheduled flights, 4 of them large. Each is a dot on Globestamp’s airports layer, and every flight you log adds to how far you’ve flown (try the flight distance calculator).

11 regions to fill in

Globestamp goes deeper than countries: its regions layer splits Oman into 11 regions (Natural Earth’s first-level divisions), and each one fills in when a photo was taken there.

All 11

Ad Dakhiliyah · Ad Dhahirah · Al Batinah North · Al Batinah South · Al Buraimi · Al Wusta · Ash Sharqiyah · Ash Sharqiyah North · Dhofar · Musandam · Muscat

Questions people ask

Is Oman a country?

Yes. Oman is one of the 193 UN member states, so every common list counts it: the UN’s 193, Globestamp’s 250 and the Travelers’ Century Club’s 330.

How many tourists visit Oman a year?

UN Tourism (via the World Bank) counted 3,506,000 international arrivals in Oman in 2019, the 83rd most of the 199 places with figures. Countries count arrivals in different ways (some include day-trippers and cruise passengers), so treat it as a rough rank rather than an exact number of tourists.

How rare is a Oman stamp in Globestamp?

It is printed in Colour-shift, the finish for places with 2 to 6 million visitors a year, rarer than 41% of the places with figures. The fewer travelers a place receives, the rarer its finish, from plain Ink to Mythic.

Does Oman count for the Travelers’ Century Club?

Yes. The Travelers’ Century Club counts it as “Oman”, one of its 330 destinations.

Places as rare as Oman

Near Oman

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