Governorate
Ad Dakhiliyah Governorate
Ad Dakhiliyah Governorate is the interior of northern Oman, south of the Samail gap. Nizwa is its historic main town. The wilayat of Al Jabal Al Akhdhar is the high plateau of the Green Mountain, and Bahla, Adam, Manah, Izki, Samail, Bidbid, and Al Hamra are the other published wilayats.
Official figures
- Registered Omani population416,156 · 71.5%
- Registered expatriate population165,744 · 28.5%
Weather
Official daily forecast
Read live from the Directorate General of Meteorology and refreshed about every 20 minutes. This is that day’s official range, not a second-by-second temperature.
Today · Tue
35°C
Low 23.3°C · High 35°C
- Partly cloudy
- Humidity 56.6%
- Wind 5.1 km/h
- Rain 0.2 mm
- TodayPartly cloudy35°23.3°
- WedSunny35.7°23.4°
- ThuSunny36.1°23°
- FriPartly cloudy35.4°22.9°
- SatSunny35.5°23.2°
Directorate General of Meteorology · Nearest official station: Nizwa · 2 km away
Ad Dakhiliyah lies inland of the Hajar mountains, where date oases and falaj irrigation gather around mud-brick towns. Nizwa, with its fort and souq, is the historic center. Bahla is known for Bahla Fort, a UNESCO World Heritage site, and Al Hamra for the mountain villages at the foot of Jebel Shams.
Al Jabal Al Akhdhar is its own wilayat on the plateau, not a neighborhood of Nizwa. Adam stands at the southern edge of the interior toward the desert. Samail and Bidbid sit on the historic route between the coast and Nizwa.
The published wilayats are Wilayat Adam, Wilayat Al Hamra, Al Jabal Al Akhdhar Province, Wilayat Bahla, Wilayat Bidbid, Wilayat Izki, Wilayat Manah, Wilayat Nizwa and Wilayat Samail.