Khatmat Malaha is a 24-hour
border crossing between the
United Arab Emirates
The United Arab Emirates (UAE; ar, اَلْإِمَارَات الْعَرَبِيَة الْمُتَحِدَة ), or simply the Emirates ( ar, الِْإمَارَات ), is a country in Western Asia (The Middle East). It is located at th ...
and
Oman
Oman ( ; ar, عُمَان ' ), officially the Sultanate of Oman ( ar, سلْطنةُ عُمان ), is an Arabian country located in southwestern Asia. It is situated on the southeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula, and spans the mouth of t ...
.
In Oman, the
Batinah Expressway
The Batinah Expressway is a 256 km 8-lane highway in Oman that connects the Muscat Expressway (a relief road in Muscat, the capital of Oman) at Halban with the United Arab Emirates border at Khatmat Malaha. It opened on 6 May 2018.
Histor ...
, a 256km 8-lane highway, links the
Muscat Expressway
Muscat Expressway () is a major highway in Muscat, Oman, Muscat, the capital of Oman.
The expressway runs largely parallel to Route 1 (Oman), Route 1 but further away from the coast and acts as a relief road. It is 54km long. The Batinah Expresswa ...
in
Halban
Halban is a village in Al Batinah South Governorate, in northeastern Oman.National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. GeoNames database entry.search Accessed 12 May 2011. Halban is the home of the German University of Technology in Oman (GUtech) and ...
to the United Arab Emirates border at Khatmat Malaha.
is an alternative border crossing.
See also
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Transport in Oman This article is about transport in Oman.
Highways
''total:''
62,240 km
''paved:''
29,685 km (including 1943 km of expressways)
''unpaved:''
30,545 km (2012)
Oman has two expressway grade highways, with the first 8 lane express ...
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Transport in the United Arab Emirates
This article covers the various forms of transport in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), by road, rail, air, water, etc.
Roads
In the UAE, they drive on the right. In the old days, it was a British protectorate and they used to drive on the left, ...
References
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Oman–United Arab Emirates border crossings