Windhoek
Windhoek is Namibia's capital and largest city. It is in the geographic centre of the country at an elevation of 1,600m. This is the city where most safaris travelling through Namibia begin, and also the first point of entry in Namibia should you arrive by airplane.Photo: Bries, CC BY-SA 2.5.
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Notable Places in the Area
Christ Church
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
22°34′04″S 17°05′14″E / 22.56778°S 17.08722°E Christ Church, WindhoekThe Christ Church is a historic landmark and Lutheran church in Windhoek, Namibia, belonging to the German-speaking Evangelical Lutheran Church in Namibia.
Independence Memorial Museum
The Independence Memorial Museum is a history museum in Windhoek, the capital of Namibia.Embassy of Germany, Windhoek
The German Embassy in Windhoek is Germany's diplomatic mission to Namibia.Localities in the Area
Pioneers Park
Pioneers Park is a suburb in the south of Windhoek, Namibia, in the Windhoek West parliamentary constituency.Klein Windhoek
Klein Windhoek is an affluent suburb of Windhoek, the capital of Namibia.Windhoek
- Type: City with 326,000 residents
- Description: capital of the Republic of Namibia
- Categories: capital city, big city and locality
- Location: Khomas, Namibia, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-22.5776° or 22° 34' 39" southLongitude
17.0773° or 17° 4' 38" eastPopulation
326,000Elevation
1,700 metres (5,577 feet)IATA airport code
WDHUnited Nations Location Code
NA WDHOpen Location Code
5F9VC3CG+XWOpenStreetMap ID
node 33364833OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
3352136Wikidata ID
Q3935Windhoek Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Windhoek
- Adyghe: Виндхук
- Afrikaans: Windhoek
- Albanian: Uindhuk
- Albanian: Vindhoek
- Amharic: ዊንድሁክ
- Arabic: Windhoek
- Arabic: ويندهوك
- Aragonese: Windhoek
- Armenian: Վինդհուկ
- Asturian: Windh.oek
- Asturian: Windhoek
- Asturian: Windhuk
- Asturian: Windḥoek
- Avaric: Windhoek
- Azerbaijani: Vindhuk
- Balinese: Windhoek
- Bashkir: Виндхук
- Basque: Windhoek
- Belarusian: Ўіндгук
- Belarusian: Віндхук
- Bengali: উইন্ডহুক
- Bosnian: Windhoek
- Breton: Windhoek
- Bulgarian: Виндхук
- Catalan: Windhoek
- Cebuano: Windhoek (ulohang dakbayan)
- Cebuano: Windhoek
- Central Kurdish: ویندھوک
- Chechen: Виндхук
- Chinese: Windhoek
- Chinese: 温得和克
- Chinese: 溫得和克
- Chinese: 溫荷克
- Croatian: Windhoek
- Czech: Windhoek
- Danish: Windhoek
- Dutch: Windhoek
- Egyptian Arabic: ويندهوك
- English: Otjomuise
- English: Windhuk
- English: Windhök
- English: ǀAi-ǁGams
- Esperanto: Vindhuko
- Estonian: Windhoek
- Faroese: Windhoek
- Fiji Hindi: Windhoek
- Finnish: Windhoek
- French: Windhoek
- French: ߣߊߡߓߌ߫ ߞߎߓߋߛߏ
- Galician: Windhoek
- Georgian: ვინდჰუკი
- German (Historic): Windhuk
- German: Windhoek
- German: Windhuk
- Greek: Βίντχουκ
- Greek: Γουίντχουκ
- Guarani: Vindúke
- Gujarati: વિન્ડહોક
- Haitian: Windoèk
- Hakka Chinese: Windhoek
- Hausa: Windhoek
- Hebrew: וינדהוק
- Hindi: विंडहॉक
- Hindi: विंडहोक
- Hindi: विण्डहोक
- Hungarian: Windhoek
- Icelandic: Windhoek
- Ido: Windhoek
- Inari Sami: Windhoek
- Indonesian: Windhoek
- Interlingua: Windhoek
- Interlingue: Windhoek
- Irish: Windhoek
- Italian: Windhoek
- Japanese: ウィントフック
- Japanese: ヴィントフック
- Javanese: Windhoek
- Kabardian: Виндхук
- Kabiyè: Findɔkɩ
- Kabyle: Windhoek
- Kannada: ವಿಂಡ್ಹೋಎಕ್
- Kirghiz: Виндхук
- Kongo: Windhoek
- Korean: 빈트후크
- Kotava: Windhoek
- Latin: Windhoek
- Latvian: Vindhuka
- Ligurian: Windhoek
- Limburgan: Windhoek
- Lingala: Windhoek
- Lingua Franca Nova: Windhoek
- Lithuanian: Vindhukas
- Livvi: Vindhuk
- Lombard: Windhoek
- Low German: Windhuk
- Lower Sorbian: Windhoek
- Luxembourgish: Windhoek
- Macedonian: Виндхук
- Malagasy: Windhoek
- Malay: Windhoek
- Malayalam: വിൻഡ്ഹോക്ക്
- Marathi: विंडहोक
- Mazanderani: ویندهوک
- Min Dong Chinese: Windhoek
- Min Nan Chinese: Windhoek
- Mingrelian: ვინდჰუკი
- Moksha: Виндгук
- Mongolian: Виндхук
- Moroccan Arabic: ڤيندهوك
- N'Ko: ߥߌ߲ߘߑߤߍߞ
- Nauru: Windhoek
- Navajo: Nástłʼah Biiʼ Naayolí
- Northern Frisian: Windhoek
- Northern Sami: Windhoek
- Norwegian: Windhoek
- Norwegian Bokmål: Windhoek
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Windhoek
- Novial: Windhuk
- Occitan (post 1500): Windhoek
- Ossetian: Виндхук
- Panjabi: ਵਿੰਟਹੁਕ
- Panjabi: ਵੰਟਹੁਕ
- Papiamento: Windhoek
- Pennsylvania German: Windhoek
- Persian: ویندهوک
- Picard: Windhoek
- Piemontese: Windhoek
- Polish: Windhuk
- Portuguese: Vinduque
- Portuguese: Windhoek
- Pushto: ویندهوک
- Romanian: Windhoek
- Russia Buriat: Виндхук
- Russian: Виндхук
- Santali: ᱣᱤᱱᱰᱳᱭᱮᱠ
- Santali: ᱩᱭᱤᱱᱰᱦᱳᱠ
- Sardinian: Windhoek
- Scots: Windhoek
- Scottish Gaelic: Windhoek
- Serbian: Windhuk
- Serbian: Windhök
- Serbian: Виндхук
- Serbo-Croatian: Windhoek
- Shona: Windhoek
- Silesian: Windhuk
- Sinhala: වින්ඩ්හෝක්
- Skolt Sami: Windhoek
- Slovak: Windhoek
- Slovenian: Windhoek
- Slovenian: Windhuk
- Somali: Windhoek
- South Azerbaijani: ویندهوک
- Spanish: Windhoek
- Swahili: Windhoek
- Swedish: Windhoek
- Tagalog: Windhoek
- Tajik: Виндхук
- Tajik: Виндҳук
- Tamil: விந்தோக்
- Tatar: Виндһук
- Telugu: వింఢోక్
- Thai: วินด์ฮุก
- Tibetan: ཝིན་ཌི་ཧོཡིཀ།
- Turkish: Windhoek
- Udmurt: Виндхук
- Ukrainian: Віндгук
- Urdu: ونڈہوک
- Urdu: وینٹہوک
- Urdu: وینڈ ہوک
- Uzbek: Vindxuk
- Uzbek: Windhoek
- Venetian: Windhoek
- Veps: Vindhuk
- Vietnamese: Windhoek
- Volapük: Windhoek
- Võro: Windhoek
- Waray (Philippines): Windhoek
- Welsh: Windhoek
- Western Frisian: Windhoek
- Western Frisian: Wynhoeke
- Western Mari: Виндхук
- Western Panjabi: ونڈہوک
- Wu Chinese: 溫得和克
- Yiddish: ווינטהוק
- Yoruba: Windhoek
- Yue Chinese: 溫荷克
- Zeeuws: Wind'oek
- Zulu: Windhoek
- Windɔkɩ
Other Places Named Windhoek
Localities in the Area
- Southern Industrial AreaSuburb
- Windhoek CentralSuburb
- HochlandSuburb
- HochlandrandNeighbourhood
- Windhoek WestSuburb
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Windhoek. Photo: Digr, CC BY-SA 4.0.