Halban (Oman)
| Ḩalbān | |||
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| Coordinates | 23 ° 34 '51 " N , 58 ° 2' 6" E | ||
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| Country | Oman | ||
| Muscat | |||
| ISO 3166-2 | OM-MA | ||
| surface | 5.3 km² | ||
| Residents | 716 (2010) | ||
| density | 135.4 Ew. / km² | ||
Halban ( Arabic حلبان Ḩalbān ) is a place in the Muscat Governorate , Wilaya Sib , in northeast Oman , west-southwest of the capital Muscat. 2010 the place had 716 inhabitants, compared to 481 inhabitants in 2003. Halban is part of the Muscat Capital Area .
The German University of Technology in Oman (GUtech) has had its headquarters here since the 2012/2013 winter semester. The campus was designed by the architects Hoehler + alSalmy.
Beehive tomb tower ruins of the Umman Nar culture of the Bronze Age are not far from the village .
supporting documents
- ^ Sultanate of Oman, National Center for Statistics and Information: Population figures . Citypopulation.de. Retrieved January 2, 2017.
- ↑ Paul Yule : Burial Towers of the Third Millennium BC on the Gulf of Oman , Spectrum of Science. November 1, 1994. Retrieved January 2, 2017.