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.
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Twyfelfontein and Epupa Falls.
Twyfelfontein
Epupa Falls
Opuwo
Opuwo is the main town of the Kaokoland area, and the capital of the wider Kunene region, in north-western Namibia. It has a population of 20,000.
Destinations to Discover
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Outjo
Khorixas
Kaokoland
Skeleton Coast National Park
Skeleton Coast National Park is in Kunene, Namibia. Its attractions include a shipwreck at the South West Seal viewpoint, Huab lagoon and the collapsed oil drilling rig.
Kunene
- Type: region of Namibia with 121,000 residents
- Description: region of Namibia
- Also known as: “Kunene Region”
- Neighbors: Erongo and Otjozondjupa
- Location: Namibia, Southern Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
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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Satellite Map
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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: “Kunene Chiu”
- Chinese: “库内内区”
- Chinese: “庫內內區”
- Croatian: “Kunene”
- Danish: “Kunene Region”
- Danish: “Kunene”
- Dutch: “Kunene”
- Esperanto: “Kaokolandio”
- Esperanto: “Kunene”
- Esperanto: “regiono Kunene”
- Esperanto: “Regiono Kunene”
- Estonian: “Kunene piirkond”
- Estonian: “Kunene ringkond”
- Faroese: “Kunene”
- Finnish: “Kunene”
- French: “Kunene”
- Galician: “Kunene”
- Galician: “Rexión de Kunene”
- Georgian: “კუნენეს რეგიონი”
- German: “Kunene”
- German: “NA-KU”
- 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”
- Slovenian: “NA-KU”
- Somali: “Gobolka Kunene”
- Spanish: “Kaokolandia”
- 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 ریجن”
- 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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