Named itself after a totally different empire hundreds of miles away, which is a proper power move.
Fun fact: Ghana was the first sub-Saharan African country to gain independence from colonial rule, in 1957.
Skipped the whole tallest-building arms race the rest of the Gulf got into, and fair play to them.
Fun fact: Oman's Majlis al Jinn cave chamber is large enough to fit several Boeing 747s inside.