Kavango
Kavango is a region in northern Namibia that is home to the Kavango people. The Kavangos are a river people who until today secured their survival mostly with fishing from the Okavango and, to a lesser extent, agriculture.
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- Former region of Namibia with 223,000 residents
- Also known as“Kavango Region”“Okavango Region”
- Category: region of Namibia
- Location
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Latitude
-18° or 18° south
Longitude
20° east
Open location code
5GJ22222+22
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Kavango” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Kawango”
- Arabic: “إقليم أوكافانغو”
- Basque: “Kavango”
- Bengali: “কাভাঙ্গো অঞ্চল”
- Bulgarian: “Окаванго (регион)”
- Bulgarian: “Окаванго”
- Catalan: “Kavango”
- Chinese: “奥卡万戈区”
- Chinese: “奧卡萬戈區”
- Croatian: “Kavango”
- Danish: “Kavango Region”
- Dutch: “Kavango”
- Esperanto: “Kavango-regiono”
- Estonian: “Kavango piirkond”
- Estonian: “Okavango ringkond”
- Faroese: “Kavango”
- Finnish: “Kavangon alue”
- French: “Kavango”
- German: “Kavango”
- Greek: “Καβάνγκο”
- Gujarati: “કાવાંગો પ્રદેશ”
- Hindi: “ओकवांगो”
- Hindi: “कवांगो क्षेत्र”
- Hindi: “कवांगो प्रदेश”
- Indonesian: “Wilayah Kavango”
- Italian: “regione di Kavango”
- Italian: “Regione di Kavango”
- Japanese: “カバンゴ州”
- Kannada: “ಕವಂಗೋ ಪ್ರದೇಶ”
- Korean: “카방고주”
- Latvian: “Kavango reģions”
- Lithuanian: “Kavango regionas”
- Lithuanian: “Okavango regionas”
- Malay: “Kavango Region”
- Marathi: “क्विंगो प्रदेश”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Okavango”
- Norwegian: “Kavango”
- Polish: “Kavango (region)”
- Polish: “Okawango”
- Portuguese: “Kavango”
- Romanian: “Regiunea Kavango”
- Russian: “Окаванго (Намибия)”
- Russian: “Окаванго”
- Sinhala: “කවන්ගෝ කලාපය”
- Spanish: “Kavango”
- Spanish: “Región de Kavango”
- Swahili: “Mkoa wa Kavango”
- Swedish: “Kavango”
- Tamil: “கவங்கோ பகுதி”
- Tatar: “Окаванго”
- Telugu: “కవాంగో ప్రాంతం”
- Thai: “โอคาวางโก”
- Tswana: “Kgaolo ya Kavango”
- Turkish: “Kavango”
- Ukrainian: “Каванго”
- Ukrainian: “Окаванго”
- Urdu: “کاوانجو ریجن”
- Urdu: “کاوانگو ریجن”
- Vietnamese: “Khu vực Kavango”
- Western Panjabi: “صوبہ کاوانگو”
- Wu Chinese: “奥卡万戈区”
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