Gobabis railway station is a railway station serving the town of Gobabis in Namibia. It is part of the TransNamib Railway that connects the town with the Namibian capital of Windhoek.
Gobabis railway station is a railway station serving the town of Gobabis in Namibia. It is part of the TransNamib Railway that connects the town with the Namibian capital of Windhoek.
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Windhoek is the capital and largest city of Namibia. It is located in central Namibia in the Khomas Highland plateau area, at around 1,700 m (5,600 ft) above sea level, almost exactly at the country's geographical centre. The population of Windhoek in 2020 was 431,000 which is growing continually due to a continued migration from other regions in Namibia.
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. The self-governed villages of Otjinene, Leonardville and Witvlei are situated in the region. As of 2020, Omaheke had 48,594 registered voters.
ǂKxʼaoǁʼae, or Gobabi ǃKung (Gobabis-ǃXû), is an eastern dialect of the Southern ǃKung language, spoken in Botswana and in Namibia by about 7,000 people. In Botswana, most speakers are bilingual in Naro or Tswana.
Gobabis is a city in eastern Namibia. It is the regional capital of the Omaheke Region, and the district capital of the Gobabis electoral constituency. Gobabis is situated 200 km (120 mi) down the B6 motorway from Windhoek to Botswana. The town is 113 km (70 mi) from the Buitepos border post with Botswana, and serves as an important link to South Africa on the tarred Trans-Kalahari Highway. Gobabis is in the heart of the cattle farming area. In fact Gobabis is so proud of its cattle farming that a statue of a large Brahman bull with the inscription "Cattle Country" greets visitors to the town. Gobabis also has its own local Airport.
The Trans-Kalahari Corridor is a paved highway corridor that provides a direct route from Walvis Bay and Windhoek in central Namibia, through Botswana, to Pretoria in Gauteng province in South Africa. It initially cost approximately 850 million Namibian dollars and was officially opened in 1998.
TransNamib Holdings Limited, commonly referred to as TransNamib, is a state-owned railway company in Namibia. Organised as a holding company, it provides both rail and road freight services, as well as passenger rail services. Its headquarters are in the country’s capital Windhoek.
GRA or Gra may refer to:
Omitara is a settlement in the Steinhausen electoral constituency in the Omaheke Region of Namibia. Together with the adjacent village of Otjivero — the two places are often referred to as one — it had a population of approximately 1,200 as of October 2008. Otjivero and Omitara Railway Station are two contiguous TransNamib railway stops en route from Windhoek to Gobabis.
Windhoek railway station is a railway station serving the city of Windhoek, the capital of Namibia. It is an important station in the Namibian rail network, and it is run by TransNamib.
B6 is a national highway of eastern-central Namibia. It is 318 kilometres (198 mi) long and connects the capital Windhoek with the Buitepos border crossing to Botswana. Gobabis, the capital of Omaheke Region, lies on the B6, as do the villages of Seeis, Omitara and Witvlei. Hosea Kutako International Airport is also located on the B6, east of Windhoek.
Neudamm railway station is a railway station serving the Neudamm campus of the University of Namibia, an experimental farm. It is part of the TransNamib Railway, located along the 228 kilometres (142 mi) Windhoek to Gobabis line. This line was built in 1929/1930.
Omitara railway station is a railway station serving the settlement of Omitara in Namibia. It is part of the TransNamib Railway, located along the Windhoek to Gobabis line.
Gobabis Constituency is an electoral constituency in the Omaheke Region of Namibia. As of December 2019 it had 13,457 registered voters. The constituency covers the rural area southeast of Gobabis and the town itself, except its Nossobville suburb. Gobabis is also the administrative centre of the constituency.
Amraal Lambert, Nama name: ǂGaiǀnub, was the first Captain of the Kaiǀkhauan, a subtribe of the Orlam, in the eastern area of Namaland, today's Namibia.
Rail service in Namibia is provided by TransNamib. The Namibian rail network consists of 2,687 route-km of tracks (2017).
Gobabis Airport is an airport serving the town of Gobabis, Namibia. Airport elevation 4,729 feet (1,441 m). Runway 07/25 length: 2,265 metres (7,431 ft). Runway 11/29 length: 1,605 metres (5,266 ft). Both are gravel runways. Customs and Immigration on request.
Neudamm is a farm and settlement in the Khomas Region of central Namibia, situated on the B6 between Windhoek and Gobabis close to Windhoek's international airport. The entire area is a campus of the University of Namibia for agricultural education and experimental farming. Neudamm Railway Station connects the settlement to the railway network.
The B14 is a national road in Namibia, running since 2018 from Gobabis to Grootfontein. A further expansion from Gobabis to Aranos in the south is planned.
