Administrative divisions — governorates and wilayats
FreshReference · Data through 2026-07 · 63 rows
Schema
| Column | Type | Valid range |
|---|---|---|
governorate_code | str | — |
governorate_en | str | — |
governorate_ar | str | — |
wilayat_code | str | — |
wilayat_en | str | — |
wilayat_ar | str | — |
Latest rows
governorate_code | governorate_en | governorate_ar | wilayat_code | wilayat_en | wilayat_ar |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OM-SS | North Ash Sharqiyah | شمال الشرقية | wadi-bani-khalid | Wadi Bani Khalid | وادي بني خالد |
| OM-SS | North Ash Sharqiyah | شمال الشرقية | dama-wa-at-taiyin | Dama Wa At Taiyin | دماء والطائيين |
| OM-SS | North Ash Sharqiyah | شمال الشرقية | sinaw | Sinaw | سناو |
| OM-ZA | Adh Dhahirah | الظاهرة | ibri | Ibri | عبري |
| OM-ZA | Adh Dhahirah | الظاهرة | yanqul | Yanqul | ينقل |
| OM-ZA | Adh Dhahirah | الظاهرة | dank | Dank | ضنك |
| OM-WU | Al Wusta | الوسطى | hayma | Hayma | هيماء |
| OM-WU | Al Wusta | الوسطى | mahawt | Mahawt | محوت |
| OM-WU | Al Wusta | الوسطى | ad-duqm | Ad Duqm | الدقم |
| OM-WU | Al Wusta | الوسطى | al-jazir | Al Jazir | الجازر |
Use the API
curl https://omandata.dev/v1/admin_geography/latest.jsonDownloads
Official source
Royal Decree 36/2022 (System of Governorates), Official Gazette 1446
Data license: Royal Decree 36/2022, Official Gazette 1446 — public legal text. This dataset publishes names and codes only; no boundary geometry is redistributed.
Source notes
Reference dataset; the join key for all others. names.csv is curated in-repo and archived per run under raw/admin_geography/<date>/. Rows: 11 governorates, 63 wilayats, per Article 2 of Royal Decree 36/2022 (which raised Al Jabal Al Akhdar and Sinaw to wilayat level, 61 -> 63). Arabic names are the decree's official spellings, not transliterations. governorate_code is ISO 3166-2:OM. wilayat_code is a lowercase ASCII slug of wilayat_en. Boundary geometry is NOT bundled: geoBoundaries gbOpen OMN ADM2 carries boundaryLicense "Other - Direct Permission", so it is linked, not redistributed. Fetch it yourself from https://www.geoboundaries.org/api/current/gbOpen/OMN/ADM2/ (follow the gjDownloadURL field) and use it under geoBoundaries' terms; that endpoint responded normally on 2026-07-31. wilayat_en follows the ADM2 shapeName spellings (NCSI NSDI transliteration) so the table joins to that geometry: feature shapeName "WILAYAT AS SEEB" -> strip the "WILAYAT " prefix, title-case, slugify -> wilayat_code "as-seeb". Al Jabal Al Akhdar and Sinaw post-date the 2020 boundary vintage, so 61 of the 63 rows have geometry; their areas are still inside the Nizwa and Al Mudaybi polygons.