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**All stats from CIA Factbook**
[ top left corner,MAP.] [BOTTOM CORNER, examples of some marble pieces. Which are natural Resources.

Middle East, bordering the Arabian Sea, Gulf of Oman, and Persian Gulf, between Yemen and UAE || 21 00 N, 57 00 E ||
 * Location: || [[image:https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/graphics/dictionary.jpg link="https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/docs/notesanddefs.html#2144"]] [[image:https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/graphics/listing.jpg link="https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/fields/2144.html"]]
 * Geographic coordinates: || [[image:https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/graphics/dictionary.jpg link="https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/docs/notesanddefs.html#2011"]] [[image:https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/graphics/listing.jpg link="https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/fields/2011.html"]]

[|map][the map is located at the top of the page.]Page3Oman

//__**Short History:**__//
The inhabitants of the area of Oman have long prospered on Indian Ocean trade. In the late 18th century, a newly established sultanate in Muscat signed the first in a series of friendship treaties with Britain. Over time, Oman's dependence on British political and military advisors increased, but it never became a British colony. In 1970, QABOOS bin Said al-Said overthrew the restrictive rule of his father; he has ruled as sultan ever since. His extensive modernization program has opened the country to the outside world while preserving the longstanding close ties with the UK. Oman's moderate, independent foreign policy has sought to maintain good relations with all Middle Eastern countries.

petroleum, copper, asbestos, some marble, limestone, chromium, gypsum, natural gas || //arable land:// 0.12% //permanent crops:// 0.14% //other:// 99.74% (2005) ||
 * Natural resources: || [[image:https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/graphics/dictionary.jpg link="https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/docs/notesanddefs.html#2111"]] [[image:https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/graphics/listing.jpg link="https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/fields/2111.html"]]
 * Land use: || [[image:https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/graphics/dictionary.jpg link="https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/docs/notesanddefs.html#2097"]] [[image:https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/graphics/listing.jpg link="https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/fields/2097.html"]]

[Below are going to be so[|]me more pictures of a natural resource called natural gas. Natural gas can be located anywhere on Earth].


 * Natural gas** is a [|gaseous] [|fossil fuel] consisting primarily of [|methane] but including significant quantities of [|ethane], [|butane], [|propane], [|carbon dioxide], [|nitrogen], [|helium] and [|hydrogen sulfide].[|[1]] It is found in [|oil fields] and [|natural gas fields], and in [|coal beds] (as [|coalbed methane]). When methane-rich gases are produced by the [|anaerobic decay] of non-fossil [|organic] material, these are referred to as [|biogas]. Sources of biogas include [|swamps], [|marshes], and [|landfills] (see [|landfill gas]), as well as [|sewage] [|sludge] and [|manure] by way of [|anaerobic digesters], in addition to [|enteric fermentation] particularly in [|cattle]. Natural gas is often informally referred to as simply **gas**, especially when compared to other energy sources such as electricity. Before natural gas can be used as a fuel, it must undergo extensive [|processing] to remove almost all materials other than methane. The by-products of that processing include ethane, propane, butanes, pentanes and higher molecular weight hydrocarbons, elemental sulfur, and sometimes helium and nitrogen.

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