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Country: Oman

Capital: Muscat

Area: 309,500 sq km, with 3,165km of coastline.

Population: 2.33 Million.

Geography: Plains, wadis, mountains, sandy and stony deserts. A diverse landscape ranges from the barren fjords of Musandam in the extreme north to the lush, green hills of Dhofar in the far south.

Climate: Muscat is hot and humid from late March until September and plesantly warm with cool evenings the rest of the year. Around Salalah, the second largest city, humid weather with temperatures of 30 degrees Celcius is common even in December, and the area is drenched by the monsoon rains from June to September.

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