Erongo

Erongo is one of the 14 regions of Namibia. The capital is . It is named after Mount Erongo, a well-known landmark in Namibia and in this area.
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is a city of 62,000 on 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.

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, known as Swakop, is in the Erongo region of . 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.

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The is a group of bald granite peaks or inselbergs located between and in the Namib desert of . The granite is more than 120 million years old and the highest outcrop rises about 1,728 metres above sea level.

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Uis is a village located in the Erongo Region, . It belongs to the . Located in the former , it is known for the local mineral wealth.

Erongo

Latitude of center
-22.0278° or 22° 1′ 40″ south
Longitude of center
15.3894° or 15° 23′ 22″ east
Population
240,000
Elevation
1,066 metres (3,497 feet)
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2696418807
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
3371199
Wiki­data ID
Q648753
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Erongo” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Erongo”
  • Amharic: “ኤሮንጎ ክልል”
  • Arabic: “إقليم إيرونغو”
  • Armenian: “Էրոնգո”
  • Asturian: “Erongo”
  • Azerbaijani: “Erongo bölgəsi”
  • 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”
  • Danish: “Erongo”
  • 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”
  • Hausa: “Yankin Erongo”
  • 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”
  • Javanese: “Wilayah Erongo”
  • Kannada: “ಎರಂಗೋ ಪ್ರದೇಶ”
  • Kazakh: “Erongo облысы”
  • Kirghiz: “Erongo облусу”
  • 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”
  • Oromo: “Naannoo Erongo”
  • Panjabi: “ਏਰੋਂਗੋ ਖੇਤਰ”
  • Persian: “منطقه ارونگو”
  • Polish: “Erongo”
  • Portuguese: “Erongo”
  • Pushto: “ارونګو سیمه”
  • Romanian: “Regiunea Erongo”
  • Russian: “Эронго”
  • Sinhala: “එරෝන්ගෝ කලාපය”
  • Somali: “Gobolka Erongo”
  • Spanish: “Erongo”
  • Spanish: “Región de Erongo”
  • Swahili: “Mkoa wa Erongo”
  • Swedish: “Erongo (region)”
  • Swedish: “Erongo”
  • Tajik: “Вилояти Erongo”
  • Tamil: “இருங்கோ பகுதி”
  • Tatar: “Erongo төбәге”
  • Telugu: “ఇరోంగో ప్రాంతం”
  • Thai: “อีรอนโก”
  • Turkish: “Erongo Bölgesi”
  • Turkish: “Erongo”
  • Ukrainian: “Еронго”
  • Urdu: “عرونگو ریجن”
  • Urdu: “عرونگو علاقہ”
  • Uzbek: “Erongo viloyati”
  • 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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