About 50% of the population lives in Muscat and the
Batinah coastal plain northwest of the capital; about 200,000
live in the Dhofar (southern) region, and about 30,000 live in
the remote Musandam peninsula on the Strait of Hormuz. Some 600,000
expatriates live in Oman, most of whom are guest workers from
South Asia, Egypt, Jordan, and the Philippines.More