Bawshar
Sign in to savethumb|Honeycomb cemetery of the Early Iron Age Bawshar ( Bawšar) is one of the provinces of Muscat, in northeastern Oman. The province borders wilayat Muttrah in the east and wilayat Seeb in the west, it overlooks the Sea of Oman to the north. It contains several archaeological sites and the Qurm Nature Reserve Ramsar site.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Bawshar
- Settlement.native_name
- بوشر
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Province
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Oman
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- right
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Oman
- Settlement.mapframe
- yes
- Settlement.mapframe caption
- Interactive map outlining Bawshar Province
- Settlement.mapframe wikidata
- yes
- Settlement.mapframe point
- none
- Settlement.mapframe zoom
- 9
- Settlement.mapframe stroke width
- 2
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Governorate
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Muscat Governorate
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2020
- Settlement.population_total
- 383,257
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +4
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Official name
- بوشر
- Country
- Oman
- Located in
- Muscat Governorate
- Population
- 402023
- Official website
- www.omanet.om
- Image
- A Neighbourhood in Baushar - panoramio.jpg
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- native label
- بوشر
- Commons category
- Bawshar
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- Landmarks
- Bawsher Sands
- References
- Further reading
thumb|Honeycomb cemetery of the Early Iron Age Bawshar ( Bawšar) is one of the provinces of Muscat, in northeastern Oman. The province borders wilayat Muttrah in the east and wilayat Seeb in the west, it overlooks the Sea of Oman to the north. It contains several archaeological sites and the Qurm Nature Reserve Ramsar site.
According to the 2010 National Census, the population of wilayat Bawshar was 192,235 spread over its 43 villages and towns. The most noteworthy of these are Al Khuwair, Sultan Qaboos City, Al Ghubra, Al Adheeba, Ghala, Al Sarooj, Bowsher Al Qadima, Al Ansab Sanab, Al Hamam, Al Awabi, and Al Misfah. One of the biggest supermarkets of Oman resides here which is Lulu Hypermarket. which is now merged with the Grand Mall Muscat.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bawshar” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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2 mapped locations