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.
- Town with about 12,300 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 1,300 metres (4,270 feet)
- …has the IATA airport code OPW
- Description: city in Namibia
- Also known as“Ohopuho”“Opuwa”
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- Location
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Latitude
-18.055° or 18° 3′ 18″ south
Longitude
13.8387° or 13° 50′ 20″ east
UN/LOCODE
NA OPW
Open location code
5FHMWRVQ+XF
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Opuwo” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Opuwo”
- Amharic: “ኦፑዎ”
- Arabic: “أوبوو”
- Asturian: “Opuwo”
- Azerbaijani: “Opuwo”
- Bengali: “অপউভু”
- Bengali: “ওপুওও”
- Bulgarian: “Опуво”
- Cebuano: “Opuwo (kapital sa rehiyon)”
- Cebuano: “Opuwo”
- Chinese: “奥普沃”
- Chinese: “奧普沃”
- Danish: “Opuwo”
- Dutch: “Opuwo”
- Egyptian Arabic: “اوبوو”
- Estonian: “Opuwo”
- Faroese: “Opuwo”
- Finnish: “Opuwo”
- French: “Opuwo”
- German: “Opuwo”
- Greek: “Οπούγο”
- Gujarati: “ઓપુવો”
- Hausa: “Opuwo”
- Hindi: “ओपुवो”
- Indonesian: “Opuwo”
- Italian: “Opuwo”
- Japanese: “オプウォ”
- Javanese: “Opuwo”
- Kannada: “ಒಪುವೊ”
- Kazakh: “Опуво”
- Kirghiz: “Опуво”
- Korean: “오푸오”
- Latvian: “Opuvo”
- Lithuanian: “Opuvas”
- Malay: “Opuwo”
- Marathi: “ओपूवो”
- Northern Frisian: “Opuwo”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Opuwo”
- Oromo: “Opuwo”
- Panjabi: “ਓਪੁਵੋ”
- Persian: “اپووو”
- Polish: “Opuwo”
- Portuguese: “Opuwo”
- Pushto: “اپووو”
- Romanian: “Opuwo”
- Russian: “Опуво”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ohopoho”
- Sinhala: “ඔපුවෝ”
- Slovenian: “Opuwo”
- Somali: “Opuwo”
- Spanish: “Opuwo”
- Swahili: “Opuwo”
- Swedish: “Opuwo”
- Tajik: “Опуво”
- Tamil: “ஒப்புவோ”
- Tatar: “Опуво”
- Telugu: “ఓపువో”
- Thai: “โอปูโว”
- Turkish: “Opuwo”
- Ukrainian: “Опуво”
- Urdu: “اوپوؤ”
- Urdu: “اوپووو”
- Uzbek: “Opuwo”
- Vietnamese: “Opuwo”
- Wu Chinese: “奥普沃”
- Zulu: “Opuwo”
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