Hardap
Hardap is one of the fourteen regions of Namibia. Its capital is Mariental. Hardap contains the municipality of Mariental, the towns of Rehoboth and Aranos, and the self-governed villages of Gibeon, Gochas, Kalkrand, Stampriet, and Maltahöhe.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Namib-Naukluft National Park and Mariental.
Namib-Naukluft National Park
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Namib-Naukluft National Park spans a large area along the coast of Namibia. Its southern part is in the ǁKaras region, its northern part in Erongo, and the main part is in Hardap.
Mariental
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Mariental is the capital of Hardap in central Namibia. In 2011, it was home to 12,500 people. Mariental is considered the gateway to the Kalahari.
Rehoboth
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Rehoboth is a town in Hardap, Namibia. It is the home town of the Rehobother Baster, a people of mixed African and European ancestry.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Sossusvlei and Maltahöhe.
Sossusvlei
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Sossusvlei is the main attraction of the Namib-Naukluft National Park. The word vlei is an Afrikaans word that means "pan" and Sossusvlei is a clay pan between large sand dunes. The name of the 'town' is Sesriem, also the name of a nearby canyon.
Maltahöhe
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Maltahöhe is a village in southern central Namibia close to the Swartrand escarpment, about 110 km west of Mariental in the Hardap Region. It owns about 17,000 hectares of land and had 3,464 inhabitants in 2023.
Hardap
- Type: region of Namibia with 107,000 residents
- Description: Region of Namibia
- Also known as: “Hardap Region”
- Neighbors: Erongo, Khomas, Northern Cape, Omaheke, and ǁKaras
- Location: Namibia, Southern Africa, Africa
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Hardap” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Hardap”
- Arabic: “إقليم هارداب”
- Armenian: “Հարդափ”
- Asturian: “Hardap”
- Basque: “Hardap”
- Bengali: “হারডাপ অঞ্চল”
- Bulgarian: “Регион Хардап”
- Bulgarian: “Хардап”
- Catalan: “Hardap”
- Cebuano: “Hardap”
- Chinese: “Hardap Chiu”
- Chinese: “哈达普区”
- Chinese: “哈達普區”
- Croatian: “Hardap”
- Czech: “Hardap”
- Danish: “Hardap Region”
- Dutch: “Hardap”
- Esperanto: “Hardap-regiono”
- Estonian: “Hardapi piirkond”
- Estonian: “Hardapi ringkond”
- Faroese: “Hardap”
- Finnish: “Hardap”
- French: “Hardap”
- Georgian: “ჰარდაპის რეგიონი”
- German: “Hardap”
- German: “NA-HA”
- Greek: “Χαρντάπ”
- Gujarati: “હાર્ડપ પ્રદેશ”
- Hindi: “हारडाप प्रदेश”
- Ido: “Regiono Hardap”
- Indonesian: “Region Hardap”
- Indonesian: “Wilayah Hardap”
- Italian: “Hardap”
- Italian: “regione di Hardap”
- Italian: “Regione di Hardap”
- Japanese: “ハルダプ州”
- Kannada: “ಹಾರ್ಡಾಪ್ ಪ್ರದೇಶ”
- Korean: “하르다프주”
- Latvian: “Hardapas reģions”
- Lithuanian: “Hardapo regionas”
- Macedonian: “Хардап”
- Malay: “Hardap Region”
- Marathi: “हार्डॅप प्रदेश”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Hardap Chiu”
- Northern Frisian: “Hardap”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hardap”
- Norwegian: “Hardap”
- Persian: “منطقه هارداپ”
- Polish: “Hardap”
- Portuguese: “Hardap”
- Romanian: “Regiunea Hardap”
- Russian: “Хардап”
- Sinhala: “හාර්ඩප් කලාපය”
- Spanish: “Hardap”
- Spanish: “Región de Hardap”
- Swahili: “Hardap”
- Swahili: “Mkoa wa Hardap”
- Swedish: “Hardap”
- Tamil: “ஹார்டாப் பகுதி”
- Telugu: “హార్డాప్ ప్రాంతం”
- Thai: “ฮาร์ดับ”
- Turkish: “Hardap Bölgesi”
- Turkish: “Hardap”
- Ukrainian: “Гардап”
- Ukrainian: “Хардап”
- Urdu: “ہارداپ ریجن”
- Urdu: “ہارداپ علاقہ”
- Vietnamese: “Khu vực Hardap”
- Western Armenian: “Հարտաբ”
- Western Frisian: “Hardap”
- Western Panjabi: “صوبہ ہردپ”
- Wu Chinese: “哈达普区”
- Zulu: “Hardap Region”
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