al-Qābil
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Al-Qabil () is a province in the governorate of ash-Sharqiya North in Oman. It covers an area of and recorded a population of 24,824 in the 2020 Omani census. Its capital is the town of al-Qabil.
==Geography== thumb|The Sharqiya Sands at al-Areesh camp south of the town of al-Qabil. Al-Qabil is located at the northwest corner of the Sharqiya Sands desert in eastern Oman. It borders all the other provinces in ash-Sharqiya North: Ibra to the northwest, Dema Wa Thaieen to the north, Wadi Bani Khalid to the northeast, Bidiya to the southeast, and al-Mudhaibi to the southwest.
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