Muscat in five emoji

What each emoji refers to

🪔

Frankincense comes from trees in Dhofar in the south and is still burned in houses rather than kept for ceremony.

⛰️

The Hajar mountains come almost to the water, so the city fills the gaps between bare rock.

🏰

Al Jalali and Al Mirani were built by the Portuguese in the 1580s to hold the harbour entrance.

⛵

Dhows are still built by hand at Sur down the coast, using the same shapes that carried the Indian Ocean trade.

🐢

Green turtles nest at Ras al Jinz in numbers, and the beach is managed as a reserve.

Muscat at a glance

Country

Oman

Coordinates

23.59° N, 58.38° E

First played

8 June 2026

Nearest cities in the game

Distances are great-circle, the same measure the game reports after a wrong guess. The arrow is the direction you would need to travel from Muscat.