Otjiwarongo is the capital of the Otjozondjupa Region in central-north Namibia, established in 1906 as a German administrative post on land earlier settled by San and Damara peoples. Its name comes from Herero and means a beautiful place; the 2023 census recorded 49,022 inhabitants, up from 28,249 in 2011. Mining, including the B2Gold open-pit gold mine opened in 2014 and the Okorusu fluorspar mine, accounts for roughly a fifth of the town's economy, and it sits on Namibia's main north-south highway and rail line.
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Founding Year Population Estimate Year Elevation (m) Latitude20.464167 degrees south 1 Elevation Band Climate Zone Sources
1. Otjiwarongo (Wikidata)
P571 (inception)
+1906-00-00T00:00:00Z
P1082 (population)
population 49,022 (2023)
P625 (coordinate location)
latitude -20.464167, longitude 16.652778
P2044 (elevation above sea level)
elevation 1460 m
P1082 (population), P585 (point in time)
population 49022 (2023)
View the Source2. GeoNames: Otjiwarongo - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 3353811
-20.46369 16.64772 P PPLA NA 39 33481 1475 Africa/Windhoek
Place record, elevation
Elevation ca. 1475 m
View the Source 3. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell -20.25, 16.75Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell -20.25, 16.75
-20.25 16.75 BSh
Wikidata: Otjiwarongo
Wikidata Q993149, class allow-list match verified against P17/real-world identity (w-geo-qidcite-0926).View the Source Otjiwarongo (Wikipedia)
In Group: Cities of Southern Africa (World), Wikipedia; part-of country and UN M49 subregionView the Source Reader Challenges (0)
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