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| - CAPITAL: Muscat - POPULATION, 3.000,000 |
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| - TOTAL AREA: 212,460 sq km (82,031 sq mi) | |
| - EXECUTIVE BRANCH: sultan, Cabinet | |
| - INDUSTRIES: crude oil production and refining, natural gas production, construction, cement, copper. | |
| - TIME: 9 hours ahead of U.S. Eastern Standard Time, and 4 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time. | |
| - INDEPENDENCE: 1650, expulsion of the Portuguese. | |
