Oman

Mostly desert; middle & south flat, north coast dry mountains (UAE-like), south coast greener mountains; drivers covered many small desert tracks

Private plates yellow, commercial red

Within the covered Middle East, yellow private plates = Oman (Israel's yellow plates carry a blue strip; Laos' yellow plates are in SE Asia).

Israel West Bank: Plain yellow → Oman; yellow + blue strip → Israel.

Laos: Middle East Arabic signage → Oman; Lao script → Laos.

White pickup truck, mostly fully blurred (sometimes antenna/front visible)

United Arab Emirates: Antenna middle → UAE.

Qatar: Antenna left → Qatar.

Arabic + English on signs (like UAE); blue directional signs w/ white text

Yellow outer + white middle lines; black-yellow kerbs common

United Arab Emirates: UAE flatter/more urban; pole and bin details decide.

Jordan: No English + black car → Jordan.

Israel West Bank: Hebrew → Israel.

Light stone blocky but ornate houses w/ matching fence + ornate gate (UAE similar)

Black-white striped signposts (Middle East: only Oman & UAE); wooden poles w/ 3 designs - the metal triangle above the pole is unique to Oman; poles generally commoner than UAE/Qatar

The triangle-topped wooden pole is unique to Oman; the plain 3-insulator design is shared with the UAE.

United Arab Emirates: Metal triangle above the pole → Oman only.

Chevrons black-yellow with unusually many arrows; red-white painted pylons common (rarely Qatar)

Garbage bins black plastic or grey metal w/ 3-leaf logo + 'be'ah' text (UAE variant: 'bee'ah', more colourful); taxis white w/ orange side panels

Regions: north = dry jagged mountains (N of Nizwa unusually shrubby); around Salalah = rolling hills, rocky ground, green valleys, coastal plain; NE (S/W of Bidiyah) = sandy desert w/ light shrubs + dirt roads through orange-pink dunes (SSW direction); red dunes → Saudi border + inland

Vegetation: acacias (umbrella crowns) → north + coasts; date palms → north coast; coconut palms → Salalah; gas pipelines along roads → around Fahud + central-south pockets; oil drills → Amal, Road 39, NW of Fahud

Bin metas: colour map by region; bin numbers = governorate + subdivision codes; sticker combos: black+black sticker → Al Buraimi/Ash Sharqiyah N/Muscat; grey+black → Ad Dhahirah; black+white → Ad Dakhiliyah/S-Dhofar/Muscat; grey+white → Ad Dakhiliyah (+Dhofar); black no sticker → Al Batinah S + N of Al Khaburah; grey no sticker → Al Batinah N; small western-style black → Muscat + E-Al-Batinah-N; chevron stickers on the side → Muscat; ANY side sticker → north-coast governorates

Antenna metas: upward antenna → around/west of Muscat + NW highways (+Al Buraimi, Sohar); forward-facing antenna → only Muscat area (copyright-year splits exist but update on refresh)

Dry, slightly hilly, grey soil + brown shrubs; Road 51 has only a white centre line; front camera slightly smudged

Spotlights: Mirbat ridge (more rugged than Salalah's); crown-shaped lone mountain SE of Nizwa; Adam = hazy, ridge+two hills north (north of Adam: mountains all around); Ubar = green farm patches in desert; Al Amarat (SE of Muscat) = urban ringed by mountains; Fahud = bumpy ridge + oil infrastructure; Musandam exclave = UAE-like extra-dry orange mountains w/ dipping beds; coastal Musandam = rocky cliffs, coast mostly west

Road metas