Brakwater
Brakwater is a settlement 20 kilometres north of Windhoek in the Khomas Region of Namibia. It belongs to the Windhoek Rural electoral constituency. Brakwater was the end point of the first 17 km of non-gravel road in South West Africa, when Windhoek's main road to the North was tarred in 1957.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Döbra.
Döbra
Hamlet
Döbra is a settlement in Namibia, about 25 kilometres north of the capital Windhoek. There is also a mountain with the same name which is 2023m above sea level.
Brakwater
- Type: Railway siding
- Description: human settlement
- Categories: human settlement and transportation
- Location: Khomas, Namibia, Southern Africa, Africa
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Zulu—“Brakwater” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Brakwater”
- Fulah: “Brakwater”
- German: “Brakwater”
- German: “Windhoek-Brakwater”
- Irish: “Brakwater”
- Polish: “Brakwater”
- Russian: “Бракватер”
- Zulu: “Brakwater”
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Localities in the Area
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