Keetmanshoop
Keetmanshoop is the capital of the ǁKaras region of southern Namibia. It's one of the main stopping points on the B1 between Windhoek and South Africa.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Olga Ernst, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Olga Ernst, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Keetmanshoop railway station and Eagle Monument.
Keetmanshoop railway station
Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Keetmanshoop railway station is a railway station serving the town of Keetmanshoop in Namibia. It was erected in 1908. when the territory was colonised by Imperial Germany.
Eagle Monument
Monument
The Eagle Monument is a war memorial in Keetmanshoop, in the ǁKaras Region of Namibia. It was designated a National Monument of Namibia on 1 August 1967.
Keetmanshoop
- Type: Town with 21,000 residents
- Description: a city of Namibia
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: ǁKaras, Namibia, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-26.5791° or 26° 34′ 45″ southLongitude
18.1342° or 18° 8′ 3″ eastPopulation
21,000Elevation
998 metres (3,274 feet)IATA airport code
KMPUnited Nations Location Code
NA KMPOpen location code
5F5WC4CM+9MOpenStreetMap ID
node 82260251OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
3356264Wikidata ID
Q160884
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Keetmanshoop” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Keetmanshoop”
- Arabic: “كيتمانشوب”
- Asturian: “Keetmanshoop”
- Belarusian: “Кітмансхуп”
- Bengali: “কিটমানশুপ”
- Bulgarian: “Кетмансхоп”
- Bulgarian: “Китмансхоуп”
- Catalan: “Keetmanshoop”
- Cebuano: “Keetmanshoop”
- Chinese: “基特曼斯胡普”
- Danish: “Keetmanshoop”
- Dutch: “Keetmanshoop”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كيتمانشوب”
- Esperanto: “Keetmanshoop”
- Estonian: “Keetmanshoop”
- Faroese: “Keetmanshoop”
- Finnish: “Keetmanshoop”
- French: “Keetmanshoop”
- German: “Keetmanshoop”
- German: “Kokerbaumwald”
- German: “Modderfontein”
- German: “Swartmodder”
- Hebrew: “קיטמנסהופ”
- Italian: “Keetmanshoop”
- Japanese: “ケートマンスフープ”
- Korean: “케이트만스호프”
- Lithuanian: “Ketmanshopas”
- Northern Frisian: “Keetmanshoop”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Cēetmānhop”
- Polish: “Keetmanshoop”
- Portuguese: “Keetmanshoop”
- Romanian: “Keetmanshoop”
- Russian: “Китмансхуп”
- Shona: “Keetmanshoop”
- Spanish: “Keetmanshoop”
- Swahili: “Keetmanshoop”
- Swedish: “Keetmanshoop”
- Turkish: “Keetmanshoop”
- Ukrainian: “Кітмансхуп”
- Urdu: “کیتمانشوپ”
- Zeeuws: “Keetmanshoop”
- Zulu: “Keetmanshoop”
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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 “Keetmanshoop”. Photo: Olga Ernst, CC BY-SA 4.0.