Walvis Bay

Walvis Bay is a city of 62,000 on Atlantic coast. It has the country's only commercial port. It is famous as a place to see large numbers of flamingoes and rare migratory birds.
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  • Type: City with 62,100 residents
  • Description: city and harbour in Erongo Region, Namibia
  • Also known as: “Badia de Walbis”, “Bahia de Walvis”, “Bahía de Walvis”, “Bahia Walvis”, “Bahía Walvis”, “Baia della Balena”, “Valfiskviken”, “Vịnh Walvis”, “Walbisbaai”, “Walfisch-Bucht-Niederland”, “Walfischbai”, “Walfish Bay”, “Walvis Bay Stadt”, “Walvisbay”, “Валфиш Беј”, “Уолфіш-Бэй”, “월비스 베이”, “ウォルヴィスベイ”, “沃尔维斯湾”, “渥尔维斯湾”, and “鯨灣港”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Walvis Bay railway station and Floating dock Muloobinba.

Railway station
is a railway station serving the port city of Walvis Bay in .

Dock
is a floating dry dock that…

Church
Photo: Georgio, CC BY 1.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kuisebmond.

Suburb
is a township of Walvis Bay, , named after the .

Walvis Bay

Latitude
-22.9558° or 22° 57′ 21″ south
Longitude
14.5071° or 14° 30′ 26″ east
Population
62,100
Elevation
6 metres (20 feet)
IATA airport code
WVB
UN/LOCODE
NA WVB
Open location code
5F9P2GV4+MR
Open­Street­Map ID
node 33364834
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3359638
Wiki­data ID
Q220843
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Walvis Bay” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Walvisbaai”
  • Albanian: “Valvis Bay”
  • Albanian: “Valvis Bej”
  • Arabic: “والفيس باي”
  • Arabic: “ولفس بي”
  • Armenian: “Ուոլֆիշ Բեյ”
  • Asturian: “Walvis Bay”
  • Basque: “Walvis Bay”
  • Belarusian: “Уолвіс-Бэй”
  • Belarusian: “Уолвіш-Бей”
  • Bengali: “ওয়ালভিস বে”
  • Bengali: “ওয়াল্ভিস বে”
  • Bulgarian: “Уолфиш Бей”
  • Catalan: “Walvis Bay”
  • Cebuano: “Walvis Bay”
  • Chinese: “華維斯灣”
  • Chinese: “鲸湾港”
  • Croatian: “Walvis Bay”
  • Czech: “Walvis Bay”
  • Danish: “Walvis Bay”
  • Dutch: “Walvisbaai”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ولفس بى”
  • Esperanto: “Walvis Bay”
  • Estonian: “Walvis Bay”
  • Finnish: “Walvis Bay”
  • French: “Walvis Bay”
  • Galician: “Walvis Bay”
  • Georgian: “უოლფიშ-ბეი”
  • German: “Walvis Bay”
  • German: “Walfischbucht” (historical)
  • Greek: “Γουάλβις Μπέι”
  • Gujarati: “વાલ્વિસ બે”
  • Hausa: “Walvis Bay”
  • Hebrew: “ואלוויס ביי”
  • Hindi: “वालविस बे”
  • Hindi: “वाल्विस बे”
  • Hungarian: “Walvis Bay”
  • Icelandic: “Walvis Bay”
  • Ido: “Walvis Bay”
  • Indonesian: “Walvis Bay”
  • Interlingue: “Walvis Bay”
  • Irish: “Bá Walvis”
  • Italian: “Walvis Bay”
  • Japanese: “ウォルビスベイ”
  • Kannada: “ವಾಲ್ವಿಸ್ ಬೇ”
  • Korean: “월비스베이”
  • Latvian: “Volfišbeja”
  • Limburgan: “Walvisbaai”
  • Lithuanian: “Volvis Bėjus”
  • Macedonian: “Волвис Беј”
  • Malay: “Teluk Walvis”
  • Malay: “Walvis Bay”
  • Marathi: “वाल्विस बे”
  • Moksha: “Волфиш Бэй”
  • Northern Frisian: “Walvis Bay”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Walvis Bay”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Walvis Bay”
  • Norwegian: “Walvis Bay”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Hwælbyhtūn”
  • Persian: “والویس بی”
  • Polish: “Walvis Bay”
  • Portuguese: “Walvis Bay”
  • Romanian: “Walvis Bay”
  • Russia Buriat: “Уолфиш-Бей”
  • Russian: “Уолфиш-Бей”
  • Scots: “Walvis Bay”
  • Serbian: “Valvis Bej”
  • Serbian: “Валвис Беј”
  • Shona: “Walvis Bay”
  • Sinhala: “වොල්විස් බේ”
  • Slovak: “Veľrybia zátoka”
  • Slovenian: “Walvis Bay”
  • Slovenian: “Zaliv kitov”
  • South Azerbaijani: “والویس بی”
  • Spanish: “Walvis Bay”
  • Swahili: “Walvis Bay”
  • Swedish: “Walvis Bay”
  • Tamil: “வால்விஸ் பே”
  • Telugu: “వాల్విష్ బే”
  • Thai: “วัลฟิสบาย์”
  • Thai: “อ่าววัลฟิส”
  • Turkish: “Walvis Bay”
  • Ukrainian: “Волфіш-Бей”
  • Urdu: “والوس بے”
  • Urdu: “والویس بے”
  • Vietnamese: “Walvis Bay”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Walvis Bay”
  • Wu Chinese: “鲸湾港”
  • Zeeuws: “Walvisbaai”
  • Zulu: “Walvis Bay”

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Localities in the Area

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