Omaheke
Omaheke is one of the fourteen regions of Namibia, the least populous region. Its capital is Gobabis. It lies in eastern Namibia on the border with Botswana and is the western extension of the Kalahari Desert.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Gobabis
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Gobabis is a town in eastern Namibia. It is the regional capital of the Omaheke Region, and the district capital of the Gobabis electoral constituency. Gobabis is in the heart of the cattle farming area. It had a population of 33,418 people in 2023.
Omaheke
- Type: region of Namibia with 103,000 residents
- Description: region of Namibia
- Also known as: “Omaheke Region”
- Neighbors: Hardap, Khomas, and Otjozondjupa
- Location: Namibia, Southern Africa, Africa
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Omaheke” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Omaheke”
- Arabic: “إقليم أوماهيكي”
- Asturian: “Omaheke”
- Basque: “Omaheke”
- Bulgarian: “Омахеке”
- Catalan: “Omaheke”
- Cebuano: “Omaheke”
- Chinese: “Omaheke Chiu”
- Chinese: “奥马海凯区”
- Chinese: “奧馬海凱區”
- Croatian: “Omaheke”
- Czech: “Omaheke”
- Dutch: “Omaheke”
- Estonian: “Omaheke piirkond”
- Estonian: “Omaheke ringkond”
- Faroese: “Omaheke”
- Finnish: “Omaheke”
- French: “Omaheke”
- Georgian: “ომაჰეკეს რეგიონი”
- German: “Omaheke”
- German: “Ostnambia”
- Hindi: “ओमाहेके प्रदेश”
- Ido: “Regiono Omaheke”
- Indonesian: “Region Omaheke”
- Italian: “Omaheke”
- Italian: “regione di Omaheke”
- Italian: “Regione di Omaheke”
- Japanese: “オマヘケ州”
- Korean: “오마헤케주”
- Lithuanian: “Omahekės regionas”
- Macedonian: “Омахеке”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Omaheke Chiu”
- Northern Frisian: “Omaheke”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Omaheke”
- Norwegian: “Omaheke”
- Persian: “منطقه اوماهکه”
- Polish: “Omaheke”
- Portuguese: “Omaheke”
- Romanian: “Regiunea Omaheke”
- Russian: “Омахеке”
- Sinhala: “ඔමාහේකේ කලාපය (නැමීබියාව)”
- Sinhala: “ඔමාහේකේ කලාපය”
- Slovak: “Omaheke”
- Spanish: “Omaheke”
- Spanish: “Omajeke”
- Spanish: “Región de Omaheke”
- Swahili: “Mkoa wa Omaheke”
- Turkish: “Omaheke Bölgesi”
- Turkish: “Omaheke”
- Ukrainian: “Омахеке”
- Urdu: “اوماہیکے علاقہ”
- Western Armenian: “Օմահեքէ շրջան”
- Western Panjabi: “صوبہ اوماہیکے”
- Wu Chinese: “奥马海凯区”
- Zulu: “Omaheke Region”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Omaheke”. Photo: Olga Ernst, CC BY-SA 4.0.