{"id":387,"date":"2025-08-11T15:34:54","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T15:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.fm.gov.om\/?page_id=387"},"modified":"2025-11-10T09:26:56","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T09:26:56","slug":"key-facts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/staging.fm.gov.om\/en\/about-oman\/state\/key-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"Key facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"cs-content\" class=\"cs-content\"><div class=\"x-section e387-e1 mar-0\"><div class=\"x-row e387-e2 mar-1 mar-2\"><div class=\"x-row-inner\"><div class=\"x-col e387-e3 mar-3\">\n<table id=\"tablepress-1\" class=\"tablepress tablepress-id-1\">\n<tbody class=\"row-striping\">\n<tr class=\"row-1\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\" style=\"width:33%;\">Official name<\/td><td class=\"column-2\" style=\"width:67%;\">The Sultanate of Oman<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-2\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Head of State<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">His Majesty Sultan Haitham bin Tarik<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-3\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Capital<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Muscat<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-4\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Population<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">5,353,614 (Estimated October 2025)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-5\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Area<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">309,500 sq km (120,000 sq miles)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-6\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Official language<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Arabic with widespread use of English<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-7\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Religion<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Islam<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-8\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Government<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Hereditary monarchy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-9\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Constitution<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">The Basic Law of the State 1996<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-10\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Currency<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Omani Rial<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-11\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Time zone<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">UTC +4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-12\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">International dialling code<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">+968<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<!-- #tablepress-1 from cache --><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Official nameThe Sultanate of Oman Head of StateHis Majesty Sultan Haitham bin Tarik CapitalMuscat Population5,353,614 (Estimated October 2025) Area309,500 sq km (120,000 sq miles) Official languageArabic with widespread use of English ReligionIslam GovernmentHereditary monarchy ConstitutionThe Basic Law of the State 1996 CurrencyOmani Rial Time zoneUTC +4 International dialling code+968<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4988,"parent":377,"menu_order":34,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-layout-full-width.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-387","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-about-oman","category-state"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/staging.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5496,"href":"https:\/\/staging.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/387\/revisions\/5496"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/377"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}