Muscat, Oman

Muscat (Arabic ???? Masqa?), population 880,200 (2005) can mean:

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• Muscat city and metropolitan area, the capital of the Sultanate of Oman
• Muscat mintaqah (governorate), sometimes referred to as Masqat to differentiate it from the city, is one of the smaller divisions in north-east Oman, incorporating towns such as Seeb, Al-Qurum, Bawshar, Muttrah, Qarayyat and Madinat Qaboos.

Despite its rather moderate population for the country's largest and capital city, Muscat is a well-planned and spread-out city that covers an approximate area of 1500 km². Because of this much of the city is empty and open to future development. There are pockets of dense residential and commercial districts, however, but these are in concentrated locations. These can be split into three main groups:

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• West Muscat: Al-Seeb, Azhaiba, Bausher, Al-Ghubra and Ghala
• Central Muscat: Al-Khuwair, Madinat Qaboos, Shati-Al Qurm, Qurm and PDO
• East Muscat: Wattayah, Ruwi, Muttrah, Kalbuh, Old Muscat, Sidab and Al-Bustan

The IPA for Muscat is /'{{IPA|m?s-k??}}/. The pronunciation is sometimes approximated as /'{{IPA|m?s-kæt}}/, /'{{IPA|m?s-k?t}}/ or {{IPA|m?s-kɛt}}, but never as /'{{IPA|muskɑt}}/

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