Erongo
Erongo is one of the 14 regions of Namibia. The capital is Swakopmund. It is named after Mount Erongo, a well-known landmark in Namibia and in this area.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Walvis Bay and Swakopmund.
Walvis Bay
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Walvis Bay is a city of 62,000 on Namibia's Atlantic coast. It has the country's only commercial port. It is famous as a place to see large numbers of flamingoes and rare migratory birds.
Swakopmund
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Swakopmund, known as Swakop, is in the Erongo region of Namibia. It is the country's biggest coastal town and a resort for Namibians on holiday. The city's German origins are quite pronounced in beautiful old German colonial buildings throughout the city, making an even starker contrast for this town sitting at the edge of the Namib Desert.
Spitzkoppe
The Spitzkoppe is a group of bald granite peaks or inselbergs located between Usakos and Swakopmund in the Namib desert of Namibia. The granite is more than 120 million years old and the highest outcrop rises about 1,728 metres above sea level.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Brandberg and National West Coast Tourist Recreation Area.
Brandberg
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Uis is a settlement located in the Erongo Region, Namibia. It belongs to the Dâures electoral constituency. Located in the former Damaraland, it is known for the local mineral wealth.
Erongo
- Type: State with 240,000 residents
- Description: Region of Namibia
- Also known as: “Erongo Region”
- Neighbors: Hardap, Khomas, Kunene, and Otjozondjupa
- Categories: region of Namibia and locality
- Location: Namibia, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude of center
-22.0278° or 22° 1′ 40″ southLongitude of center
15.3894° or 15° 23′ 22″ eastPopulation
240,000Elevation
1,066 metres (3,497 feet)OpenStreetMap ID
node 2696418807OpenStreetMap feature
place=state
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Erongo” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Erongo”
- Arabic: “إقليم إيرونغو”
- Armenian: “Էրոնգո”
- Asturian: “Erongo”
- Basque: “Erongo”
- Bengali: “এরোংগু অঞ্চল”
- Bulgarian: “Еронго”
- Catalan: “Erongo”
- Cebuano: “Erongo”
- Chinese: “Erongo Chiu”
- Chinese: “埃龍戈區”
- Chinese: “埃龙戈区”
- Croatian: “Erongo”
- Czech: “Erongo”
- Danish: “Erongo Region”
- Dutch: “Erongo”
- Esperanto: “Erongo-regiono”
- Estonian: “Erongo piirkond”
- Estonian: “Erongo ringkond”
- Faroese: “Erongo”
- Finnish: “Erongo”
- French: “Erongo”
- Galician: “Erongo Region”
- Galician: “Erongo”
- Georgian: “ერონგოს რეგიონი”
- German: “Erongo”
- German: “Region Erongo”
- Greek: “Ερόνγκο”
- Gujarati: “એરોન્ગો પ્રદેશ”
- Hebrew: “ארונגו”
- Hindi: “एरोंगो प्रदेश”
- Ido: “Regiono Erongo”
- Indonesian: “Region Erongo”
- Indonesian: “Wilayah Erongo”
- Italian: “regione degli Erongo”
- Italian: “Regione degli Erongo”
- Japanese: “エロンゴ州”
- Kannada: “ಎರಂಗೋ ಪ್ರದೇಶ”
- Korean: “에롱고주”
- Latvian: “Erongo reģions”
- Lithuanian: “Erongo regionas”
- Macedonian: “Еронго”
- Malay: “Erongo Region”
- Marathi: “एरोन्गो प्रदेश”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Erongo Chiu”
- Northern Frisian: “Erongo”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Erongo”
- Norwegian: “Erongo”
- Persian: “منطقه ارونگو”
- Polish: “Erongo”
- Portuguese: “Erongo”
- Romanian: “Regiunea Erongo”
- Russian: “Эронго”
- Sinhala: “එරෝන්ගෝ කලාපය”
- Spanish: “Erongo”
- Spanish: “Región de Erongo”
- Swahili: “Mkoa wa Erongo”
- Swedish: “Erongo (region)”
- Swedish: “Erongo”
- Tamil: “இருங்கோ பகுதி”
- Telugu: “ఇరోంగో ప్రాంతం”
- Thai: “อีรอนโก”
- Turkish: “Erongo Bölgesi”
- Turkish: “Erongo”
- Ukrainian: “Еронго”
- Urdu: “عرونگو ریجن”
- Urdu: “عرونگو علاقہ”
- Vietnamese: “Khu vực Erongo”
- Western Armenian: “Էրոնկօ”
- Western Frisian: “Erongo”
- Western Panjabi: “صوبہ ارونگو”
- Wu Chinese: “埃龙戈区”
- Zulu: “Erongo Region”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Erongo”. Photo: Martin Cígler, CC BY-SA 3.0.