Swakopmund
Swakopmund, known as Swakop, is in the Erongo region of Namibia. It is the country's biggest coastal town and a resort for Namibians on holiday. The city's German origins are quite pronounced in beautiful old German colonial buildings throughout the city, making an even starker contrast for this town sitting at the edge of the Namib Desert.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Museum Swakopmund and National Marine Aquarium of Namibia.
National Marine Aquarium of Namibia
Public building
Photo: Catatine, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The National Marine Aquarium of Namibia is an aquarium in Swakopmund, Namibia. The Aquarium features fauna from the cold Benguela Current in the southern Atlantic Ocean. The aquarium has been closed for repairs since 2023 according The Economist.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Central and Mondesa.
Mondesa
Suburb
Photo: Greg Willis, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mondesa is a suburb of Swakopmund in central western Namibia. The residential area is located in the northeast of the town. In the northwest, it borders on the neighbourhood Tamariskia and in the south on the industrial area.
Swakopmund
- Type: City with 25,000 residents
- Description: city in Namibia
- Category: locality
- Location: Swakopmund Constituency, Erongo, Namibia, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-22.6768° or 22° 40′ 36″ southLongitude
14.5314° or 14° 31′ 53″ eastPopulation
25,000Elevation
18 metres (59 feet)IATA airport code
SWPUnited Nations Location Code
NA SWPOpen location code
5F9P8GFJ+7HOpenStreetMap ID
node 33364835OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
3352844Wikidata ID
Q59698
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Swakopmund” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Swakopmund”
- Albanian: “Svakopmund”
- Arabic: “سواكوبموند”
- Asturian: “Swakopmund”
- Azerbaijani: “Svakopmund”
- Belarusian: “Свакапмунд”
- Bengali: “সোকপমুন্ড”
- Bulgarian: “Свакопмунд”
- Catalan: “Swakopmund”
- Cebuano: “Swakopmund”
- Chinese: “斯瓦科普蒙德”
- Croatian: “Swakopmund”
- Czech: “Swakopmund”
- Danish: “Swakopmund”
- Dutch: “Swakopmund”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سواكوبموند”
- Esperanto: “Swakopmund”
- Estonian: “Swakopmund”
- Finnish: “Swakopmund”
- French: “Swakopmund”
- Galician: “Swakopmund”
- German: “Swakopmund”
- Greek: “Σβακοπμούντ”
- Gujarati: “સ્વાકોપમુંડ”
- Hebrew: “סווקופמונד”
- Hindi: “स्वाकोपमुंड”
- Ido: “Swakopmund”
- Indonesian: “Swakopmund”
- Italian: “Swakopmund”
- Japanese: “スワコプムント”
- Kannada: “ಸ್ವಾಕೋಪ್ಮುಂಡ್”
- Korean: “스바코프문트”
- Korean: “스와코프문트”
- Latvian: “Svakopmunda”
- Lithuanian: “Svakopmundas”
- Macedonian: “Свакопмунд”
- Malay: “Swakopmund”
- Marathi: “स्वाकोमंड”
- Northern Frisian: “Swakopmund”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Swakopmund”
- Norwegian: “Swakopmund”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Swakopmund”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Swacopmuða”
- Polish: “Swakopmund”
- Portuguese: “Swakopmund”
- Romanian: “Swakopmund”
- Russian: “Свакопмунд”
- Shona: “Swakopmund”
- Sinhala: “ස්වාකොප්මන්ඩ්”
- Slovenian: “Swakopmund”
- Spanish: “Swakopmund”
- Swahili: “Swakopmund”
- Swedish: “Swakopmund”
- Tamil: “ஸ்வாகொமண்ட்”
- Telugu: “స్వకొప్ముండ్”
- Thai: “สวากุปมันด์”
- Turkish: “Swakopmund”
- Ukrainian: “Свакопмунд”
- Urdu: “سواکوپموند”
- Vietnamese: “Swakopmund”
- Waray (Philippines): “Swakopmund”
- Zulu: “Swakopmund”
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