Southern Africa
Namibia
Otjozondjupa

Grootfontein

Grootfontein is a city of 24,000 people in , . Like all the towns in the Otavi Triangle, Grootfontein is very green in summer but drier in winter. In spring, jacaranda and flamboyant trees bloom in profusion.
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  • Type: Town with 16,600 residents
  • Description: city in Namibia
  • Also known as: “Groutfontein”

Grootfontein

Latitude
-19.5644° or 19° 33′ 52″ south
Longitude
18.1041° or 18° 6′ 15″ east
Population
16,600
Elevation
1,432 metres (4,698 feet)
IATA airport code
GFY
United Nations Location Code
NA GFY
Open location code
5FGWC4P3+6J
Open­Street­Map ID
node 245024692
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3357114
Wiki­data ID
Q986336
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Grootfontein” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Grootfontein”
  • Afrikaans: “Otjozondjupa”
  • Arabic: “غرووتفونتين”
  • Asturian: “Grootfontein”
  • Belarusian: “Хрутфантэйн”
  • Bulgarian: “Грутфонтейн”
  • Chinese: “赫魯特方丹”
  • Chinese: “赫鲁特方丹”
  • Czech: “Grootfontein”
  • Dutch: “Grootfontein”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جرووتفونتين”
  • Estonian: “Grootfontein”
  • Faroese: “Grootfontein”
  • Finnish: “Grootfontein”
  • French: “Grootfontein”
  • French: “Hoba”
  • German: “Grootfontein”
  • Greek: “Γκρουτφοντέιν”
  • Hebrew: “גרוטפונטיין”
  • Italian: “Grootfontein”
  • Japanese: “グルートフォンテイン”
  • Korean: “그루트폰테인”
  • Moksha: “Грутфонтэйн”
  • Polish: “Grootfontein”
  • Portuguese: “Grootfontein”
  • Romanian: “Grootfontein”
  • Russian: “Гротфонтейн”
  • Russian: “Хрутфонтейн”
  • Scots: “Grootfontein”
  • Shona: “Grootfontein”
  • Slovenian: “Grootfontein”
  • Spanish: “Grootfontein”
  • Swahili: “Grootfontein”
  • Swedish: “Grootfontein”
  • Turkish: “Grootfontein”
  • Ukrainian: “Грутфонтейн”
  • Ukrainian: “Хруатфонтейн”
  • Zulu: “Grootfontein”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Grootfontein”. Photo: Digr, CC BY-SA 3.0.