Omaruru

Omaruru is a town in the of central . The town has 14,000 inhabitants and encompasses 352 square kilometres of land. It is situated near Mount Erongo, on the usually dry .
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  • Type: Town with 11,500 residents
  • Description: city in Erongo Region, Namibia
  • Also known as: “Omaruru, Namibia”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Omaruru railway station and Franke Tower.

Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
is a railway station serving the town of Omaruru in . It is part of the TransNamib railway network. Omaruru is situated on the — line, completed in 1906 during Imperial Germany's colonial rule of German South West Africa.

Tower
Photo: Pemba.mpimaji, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Omaruru

Latitude
-21.41737° or 21° 25′ 3″ south
Longitude
15.9514° or 15° 57′ 5″ east
Population
11,500
Elevation
1,211 metres (3,973 feet)
United Nations Location Code
NA OMA
Open location code
5FCQHXM2+3H
Open­Street­Map ID
node 258875879
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3354540
Wiki­data ID
Q1896161
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Omaruru” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Omaruru”
  • Arabic: “أومارورو”
  • Asturian: “Omaruru”
  • Belarusian: “Амаруру”
  • Cebuano: “Omaruru”
  • Chinese: “奥马鲁鲁”
  • Chinese: “奧馬魯魯”
  • Dutch: “Omaruru”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اومارورو”
  • Esperanto: “Omaruru”
  • Finnish: “Omaruru”
  • French: “Omaruru”
  • Georgian: “ომარურუ”
  • German: “Okombahe”
  • German: “Omahoro”
  • German: “Omaruru”
  • German: “Otjimakuru”
  • German: “Otjimbojo”
  • German: “Otjohorongo”
  • Hebrew: “אומרורו”
  • Hindi: “ओमारुरु”
  • Italian: “Omaruru”
  • Japanese: “オマルル”
  • Latin: “Omarurum”
  • Polish: “Omaruru”
  • Portuguese: “Omaruru”
  • Romanian: “Omaruru, Namibia”
  • Romanian: “Omaruru”
  • Russian: “Омаруру”
  • Spanish: “Omaruru”
  • Swahili: “Omaruru”
  • Swedish: “Omaruru”
  • Urdu: “اومارورو، نمیبیا”
  • Zulu: “Omaruru, Namibhiya”

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