Omaruru
Omaruru is a town in the Erongo Region of central Namibia. The town has 14,000 inhabitants and encompasses 352 square kilometres of land. It is situated near Mount Erongo, on the usually dry Omaruru River.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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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.
Omaruru railway station
Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Omaruru railway station is a railway station serving the town of Omaruru in Namibia. It is part of the TransNamib railway network. Omaruru is situated on the Kranzberg—Otavi line, completed in 1906 during Imperial Germany's colonial rule of German South West Africa.
Omaruru
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Erongo, Namibia, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-21.41737° or 21° 25′ 3″ southLongitude
15.9514° or 15° 57′ 5″ eastPopulation
11,500Elevation
1,211 metres (3,973 feet)United Nations Location Code
NA OMAOpen location code
5FCQHXM2+3HOpenStreetMap ID
node 258875879OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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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”
- Italian: “Omaruru”
- Japanese: “オマルル”
- Polish: “Omaruru”
- Portuguese: “Omaruru”
- Romanian: “Omaruru, Namibia”
- Romanian: “Omaruru”
- Russian: “Омаруру”
- Spanish: “Omaruru”
- Swahili: “Omaruru”
- Swedish: “Omaruru”
- Zulu: “Omaruru, Namibhiya”
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