Muscat and Oman

British

noun

the former name (until 1970) of (the Sultanate of) Oman

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One of the most recent notable land trades between states was Pakistan’s purchase of Gwadar, a port enclave in the country’s southwest, for $3 million from the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman in 1958.

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