Okahandja

Okahandja is a city of 24,00 in , and is colloquially known as the Garden town of Namibia.
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  • Type: City with 22,600 residents
  • Description: city in Namibia
  • Also known as: Okahanja

Places of Interest

Highlights include Okahandja railway station and Okahandja Military Museum.

Railway station
is a railway station serving the town of Okahandja in . It is part of the TransNamib Railway. Okahandja is situated on the line, built in 1902 during Imperial Germany's colonial rule of German South West Africa.

Museum
is a military museum located in Okahandja, , which was supposed to exhibit a collection of military memorabilia from Namibia's history.

Okahandja

Latitude
-21.9792° or 21° 58′ 45″ south
Longitude
16.9128° or 16° 54′ 46″ east
Population
22,600
Elevation
1,370 metres (4,495 feet)
United Nations Location Code
NA OOZ
Open location code
5FCR2WC7+84
Open­Street­Map ID
node 243717016
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3354898
Wiki­data ID
Q597491
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Okahandja” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: Okahandja
  • Arabic: أوكاهانديا
  • Armenian: Օկահանջա
  • Bengali: ওকাহ্যান্ডজা
  • Bulgarian: Окаханджа
  • Catalan: Okahandja
  • Cebuano: Okahandja
  • Chinese: 奥卡汉贾
  • Chinese: 奧卡漢賈
  • Danish: Okahandja
  • Dutch: Okahandja
  • Egyptian Arabic: اوكاهانديا
  • Faroese: Okahandja
  • Finnish: Okahandja
  • French: Okahandja
  • Georgian: ოკაჰანდე
  • German: Okahandja
  • German: Otjikune
  • Greek: Οκαχάντζα
  • Gujarati: ઓકાન્ડ્જા
  • Hausa: Okahandja
  • Herero: Okahandja
  • Hindi: ओखांदजा
  • Indonesian: Okahandja
  • Irish: Okahandja
  • Italian: Okahandja
  • Japanese: オカハンジャ
  • Kannada: ಒಕಾಹಂದಜ
  • Korean: 오카한쟈
  • Latvian: Okahandža
  • Lithuanian: Okachandža
  • Malay: Okahandja
  • Marathi: ओकांड्जा
  • Northern Frisian: Okahandja
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Okahandja
  • Polish: Okahandja
  • Portuguese: Okahandja
  • Romanian: Okahandja
  • Russia Buriat: Окаханджа
  • Russian: Окаханджа
  • Russian: Окахандья
  • Shona: Okahandja
  • Sinhala: ඔකහන්ජා
  • Spanish: Okahandja
  • Swedish: Okahandja
  • Tamil: ஓகாஆன்டஜ
  • Telugu: ఓకాహాండ్జ
  • Thai: โอคาฮันดยา
  • Tswana: Okahandja
  • Turkish: Okahandja
  • Ukrainian: Окаханджа
  • Urdu: اوکاحاندجا
  • Vietnamese: Okahandja
  • Zulu: Okahandja

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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 “Okahandja”. Photo: Ji-Elle, CC BY-SA 4.0.