1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Oman
Compare this sourced profile of Muscat, Oman before planning. Stable fields identify the place; confirm current transport, access and opening details with official sources.
01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Muscat—797,000, Asia/Muscat, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
Wikidata's localized description: capital of Oman.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Muscat is GeoNames ID 287286. Its recorded administrative path is Muscat → Oman, and GeoNames classifies the place as a capital of a political entity. Muscat occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2019-09-05; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Muscat ranks 697 by recorded population. Inside the 1 selected Oman entries it ranks 1; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 138. Its 797,000 population value is 1.00 times the 797,000 median for the country cohort and 0.88 times the 902,588 regional median. Muscat is rank 1 among the 1 selected Oman entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Muscat's recorded value stays within one quarter of the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Muscat's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Al Ain City at 277.486 km with 846,747 recorded people; Dubai at 355.118 km with 3,790,000 recorded people; Ajman at 358.715 km with 490,035 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 81.229 km. Compared with Al Ain City, Muscat's recorded population is 0.94 times as large. Against Muscat, Al Ain City follows Al Ain Municipality → Abu Dhabi → United Arab Emirates in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected United Arab Emirates cohort rather than Oman, uses Asia/Dubai instead of Asia/Muscat, and carries populated place rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is above Muscat's. Against Muscat, Dubai follows Dubai → United Arab Emirates in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected United Arab Emirates cohort rather than Oman, uses Asia/Dubai instead of Asia/Muscat, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is above Muscat's. Against Muscat, Ajman follows Ajman → United Arab Emirates in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected United Arab Emirates cohort rather than Oman, uses Asia/Dubai instead of Asia/Muscat, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Muscat's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,097 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Muscat's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the wider half of atlas distances. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 287286, the coordinate pair 23.5841 / 58.4078, country rank 1 of 1, and neighbor GeoNames 292913 at 277.486 km bind Muscat to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Muscat's reference point is 23.5841° north and 58.4078° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Muscat is shared by 1 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLC is shared by 129 rows. Muscat's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Muscat's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Muscat's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Muscat, so the profile preserves that missing value instead of guessing terrain. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Muscat's closest other entries in this atlas are Al Ain City (277.486 km), Dubai (355.118 km), Ajman (358.715 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2019-09-05; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
GeoNames data: CC BY 4.0. Wikidata labels and descriptions: CC0 1.0.