Kunene
Kunene is one of the fourteen regions of Namibia. Its capital is Opuwo, its governor is Vipuakuje Muharukua. The region's name comes from the Kunene River which forms the northern border with Angola.
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Epupa Falls
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Skeleton Coast National Park
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Kunene
- Type: region of Namibia with 121,000 residents
- Description: region of Namibia
- Also known as: “Kaokolandia”, “Kaokolandio”, “Kunene Region”, “NA-KU”, “regiono Kunene”, “Rexión de Kunene”, and “کونینے ریجن”
- Neighbors: Erongo and Otjozondjupa
- Location: Namibia, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude of center
-19.4167° or 19° 25′ south
Longitude of center
13.75° or 13° 45′ east
Population
121,000
Elevation
841 metres (2,759 feet)
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Kunene” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Kunene”
- Amharic: “ኩነኔ ክልል”
- Arabic: “إقليم كونيني”
- Arabic: “اقليم كونيني”
- Armenian: “Կունենե”
- Asturian: “Kunene”
- Azerbaijani: “Kunene bölgəsi”
- Basque: “Kunene”
- Bengali: “কুনেনে অঞ্চল”
- Bulgarian: “Кунене”
- Catalan: “Cunene”
- Cebuano: “Kunene”
- Chinese: “库内内区”
- Chinese: “庫內內區”
- Croatian: “Kunene”
- Danish: “Kunene Region”
- Danish: “Kunene”
- Dutch: “Kunene”
- Esperanto: “Kunene”
- Esperanto: “Regiono Kunene”
- Estonian: “Kunene piirkond”
- Estonian: “Kunene ringkond”
- Faroese: “Kunene”
- Finnish: “Kunene”
- French: “Kunene”
- Galician: “Kunene”
- Georgian: “კუნენეს რეგიონი”
- German: “Kunene”
- Greek: “Κουνένε”
- Gujarati: “કુનેન પ્રદેશ”
- Hausa: “Yankin Kunene”
- Hebrew: “קוננה”
- Hindi: “कुनेने प्रदेश”
- Ido: “Regiono Kunene”
- Indonesian: “Region Kunene”
- Indonesian: “Wilayah Kunene”
- Italian: “regione del Kunene”
- Italian: “Regione del Kunene”
- Japanese: “クネネ州”
- Javanese: “Wilayah Kunene”
- Kannada: “ಕುನೆನ್ ಪ್ರದೇಶ”
- Kazakh: “Kunene oblysы”
- Kirghiz: “Kunene облусу”
- Korean: “쿠네네주”
- Latvian: “Kunenes reģions”
- Lithuanian: “Kunenės regionas”
- Luxembourgish: “Kunene”
- Malay: “Kunene Region”
- Marathi: “कुनेने प्रदेश”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kunene Chiu”
- Northern Frisian: “Kunene”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kunene”
- Norwegian: “Kunene”
- Oromo: “Naannoo Kunene”
- Panjabi: “ਕੁਨੇਨੇ ਖੇਤਰ”
- Persian: “منطقه کوننه”
- Polish: “Kunene”
- Portuguese: “Kunene”
- Pushto: “کونین سیمه”
- Russian: “Кунене”
- Sinhala: “කුයිනි පළාත”
- Slovenian: “Kunene”
- Somali: “Gobolka Kunene”
- Spanish: “Kunene”
- Spanish: “Región de Kunene”
- Swahili: “Mkoa wa Kunene”
- Swedish: “Kunene”
- Tajik: “Вилояти Kunene”
- Tamil: “குணேனே பகுதி”
- Tatar: “Kunene төбәге”
- Telugu: “కునెని ప్రాంతం”
- Thai: “เขตคูเนเน่”
- Turkish: “Kunene”
- Ukrainian: “Кунене”
- Urdu: “کونینے علاقہ”
- Uzbek: “Kunene viloyati”
- Vietnamese: “Khu vực Kunene”
- Western Armenian: “Քունենէ”
- Western Frisian: “Kunene (regio)”
- Western Frisian: “Kunene”
- Western Panjabi: “صوبہ کنونے”
- Wu Chinese: “库内内区”
- Zulu: “Kunene Region”
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