Oshikango
Oshikango is a former village in northern Namibia and since 2004 part of the town of Helao Nafidi, although it still maintained its own village council for a number of years.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Oshikango railway station.
Oshikango railway station
Railway station
Oshikango railway station is a terminal railway station on the Namibian-Angolan border serving the village of Oshikango and the town of Helao Nafidi. It is part of the TransNamib Railway railway network.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Helao Nafidi.
Helao Nafidi
Town
Helao Nafidi is a town in Ohangwena Region in northern Namibia at the border to Angola. It had a population of 29,119 people in 2023. Helao Nafidi has been established in 2004 as an amalgamation of several villages and settlements along the main road between Oshikango and Ohangwena which are both also part of the town. Helao Nafidi is situated 4 km south of Oshikango.
Oshikango
- Type: Suburb with 2,660 residents
- Description: village in Ohangwena Region, Namibia
- Categories: neighborhood, human settlement, and locality
- Location: Ohangwena Region, Namibia, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-17.39919° or 17° 23′ 57″ southLongitude
15.89408° or 15° 53′ 39″ eastPopulation
2,660Elevation
1,100 metres (3,609 feet)United Nations Location Code
NA OSHOpen location code
5FJQJV2V+8JOpenStreetMap ID
node 1037846931OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Oshikango” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أوشيكانغو”
- Bulgarian: “Ошиканго”
- Cebuano: “Oshikango”
- Chinese: “奧希坎戈”
- Dutch: “Oshikango”
- Egyptian Arabic: “اوشيكانجو”
- French: “Oshikango”
- German: “Oshikango”
- Greek: “Οσικάνγκο”
- Irish: “Oshikango”
- Italian: “Oshikango”
- Japanese: “オシカンゴ”
- Lithuanian: “Ošikangas”
- Portuguese: “Oshikango”
- Romanian: “Oshikango”
- Russian: “Ошиканго”
- Spanish: “Oshikango”
- Swahili: “Oshikango”
- Ukrainian: “Ошиканго”
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