ǁKaras Region, the Glossary

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1. 62 relations: Afrikaans, Aroab, Atlantic Ocean, Bernadus Swartbooi, Berseba, Berseba Constituency, Bethanie, Namibia, Brukkaros Mountain, Central Africa Time, ǀAi-ǀAis, ǃNamiǂNûs Constituency, Damara people, Dawid Boois, Diamond, Drinking water, Electoral Commission of Namibia, Fish River Canyon, Fishing, Government of Namibia, Great Karas Mountains, Haib mine, Hardap Region, Hifikepunye Pohamba, Human Development Index, Karasburg, Karasburg Constituency, Karasburg East, Karasburg West, Keetmanshoop, Keetmanshoop Rural, Keetmanshoop Urban, Khoekhoe language, Koës, Landless People's Movement (Namibia), Lateral click, Lüderitz, List of constituencies of Namibia, List of Namibian regions by Human Development Index, Lucia Basson, Mining, Namibia, Namibian Sun, National Assembly (Namibia), Naute Dam, Northern Cape, Oranjemund, Oranjemund Constituency, Ovambo language, Quiver Tree Forest, Radio, ... Expand index (12 more) »

2. Coasts of South Africa
3. Regions of Namibia

Afrikaans

Afrikaans is a West Germanic language, spoken in South Africa, Namibia and (to a lesser extent) Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

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Aroab

Aroab is a village with a population of approximately 5,000 in the ǁKaras Region of southern Namibia.

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Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, with an area of about.

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Bernadus Swartbooi

Bernadus Clinton Swartbooi (born 11 October 1977) is a Namibian politician.

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Berseba

Berseba (ǃAutsawises) is a village in the ǁKaras Region of southern Namibia and the district capital of the Berseba electoral constituency.

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Berseba Constituency

Berseba is a constituency in the ǁKaras Region of Namibia. ǁKaras Region and Berseba Constituency are 1992 establishments in Namibia.

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Bethanie, Namibia

Bethanie (often in German: Bethanien, and in English: Bethany, previously Klipfontein, Khoekhoegowab: ǀUiǂgandes) is a village in the ǁKaras Region of southern Namibia.

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Brukkaros Mountain

Brukkaros Mountain (Khoekhoe: Geitsi Gubib) is a collapsed caldera in the ǁKaras Region, Namibia.

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Central Africa Time

Central Africa Time or CAT, is a time zone used in central and southern Africa.

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ǀAi-ǀAis

ǀAi-ǀAis (fire-fire, meaning 'hot as fire' or 'scalding hot') is a Namibian holiday resort with hot mineral springs in the bed of the Fish River.

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ǃNamiǂNûs Constituency

ǃNamiǂNûs (until 2013 Lüderitz) is an electoral constituency in the ǁKaras Region of Namibia. ǁKaras Region and ǃNamiǂNûs Constituency are 1992 establishments in Namibia.

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Damara people

The Damara, plural Damaran (Khoekhoegowab: ǂNūkhoen, Black people, Bergdamara, referring to their extended stay in hilly and mountainous sites, also called at various times the Daman or the Damaqua) are an ethnic group who make up 8.5% of Namibia's population.

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Dawid Boois

Dawid Boois (born 13 January 1952 in Berseba) is a Namibian politician and educator.

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Diamond

Diamond is a solid form of the element carbon with its atoms arranged in a crystal structure called diamond cubic.

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Drinking water

Drinking water or potable water is water that is safe for ingestion, either when drunk directly in liquid form or consumed indirectly through food preparation.

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Electoral Commission of Namibia

The Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN) is an agency of the government of Namibia. ǁKaras Region and Electoral Commission of Namibia are 1992 establishments in Namibia.

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Fish River Canyon

The Fish River Canyon (Afrikaans: Visrivier Canyon or Visrivier Kuil, Fischfluss Canyon), is located in the south of Namibia.

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Fishing

Fishing is the activity of trying to catch fish.

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Government of Namibia

The government of Namibia consists of the executive, the legislative and the judiciary branches.

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Great Karas Mountains

The Great Karas Mountains (Afrikaans: Groot Karasberge) are located in the ǁKaras Region of southern Namibia, the driest part of the country.

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Haib mine

The Haib mine is a proposed copper mine located in the south of Namibia in the ǁKaras Region.

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Hardap Region

Hardap is one of the fourteen regions of Namibia, its capital is Mariental. ǁKaras Region and Hardap Region are 1992 establishments in Namibia and regions of Namibia.

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Hifikepunye Pohamba

Hifikepunye Lucas Pohamba (born 18 August 1935) is a Namibian politician who served as the second president of Namibia from 21 March 2005 to 21 March 2015.

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Human Development Index

The Human Development Index (HDI) is a statistical composite index of life expectancy, education (mean years of schooling completed and expected years of schooling upon entering the education system), and per capita income indicators, which is used to rank countries into four tiers of human development.

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Karasburg

Karasburg (ǀNomsoros, old name Kalkfontein, literally "carst spring") is a town with 4,000 inhabitants in the ǁKaras Region of southern Namibia and the district capital of the Karasburg electoral constituency.

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Karasburg Constituency

Karasburg was a constituency in the ǁKaras Region of Namibia. ǁKaras Region and Karasburg Constituency are 1992 establishments in Namibia.

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Karasburg East

Karasburg East is an electoral constituency in the ǁKaras Region of Namibia.

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Karasburg West

Karasburg West is an electoral constituency in the ǁKaras Region of Namibia.

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Keetmanshoop

Keetmanshoop is a town in the ǁKaras Region of southern Namibia, lying on the Trans-Namib Railway from Windhoek to Upington in South Africa.

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Keetmanshoop Rural

Keetmanshoop Rural is an electoral constituency in the ǁKaras Region of Namibia. ǁKaras Region and Keetmanshoop Rural are 1992 establishments in Namibia.

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Keetmanshoop Urban

Keetmanshoop Urban is a constituency in the ǁKaras Region of Namibia. ǁKaras Region and Keetmanshoop Urban are 1992 establishments in Namibia.

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Khoekhoe language

Khoekhoe (Khoekhoegowab), also known by the ethnic terms Nama (Namagowab), Damara (ǂNūkhoegowab), or Nama/Damara and formerly as Hottentot, is the most widespread of the non-Bantu languages of Southern Africa that make heavy use of click consonants and therefore were formerly classified as Khoisan, a grouping now recognized as obsolete.

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Koës

Koës is a village in the ǁKaras Region of south-eastern Namibia.

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Landless People's Movement (Namibia)

The Landless People's Movement (LPM) is a political party in Namibia.

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Lateral click

The lateral clicks are a family of click consonants found only in African languages.

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Lüderitz

Lüderitz is a town in the ǁKaras Region of southern Namibia.

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List of constituencies of Namibia

Each of the 14 regions of Namibia is further subdivided into electoral constituencies.

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List of Namibian regions by Human Development Index

This is a list of Namibian regions by Human Development Index as of 2021.

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Lucia Basson

Lucia Basson (born 20 March 1953 in Karasburg, ǁKaras Region) is a Namibian politician who has been the governor of the ǁKaras Region of Namibia from April 2015 to April 2020.

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Mining

Mining is the extraction of valuable geological materials and minerals from the surface of the Earth.

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Namibia

Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa.

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Namibian Sun

The Namibian Sun is a daily newspaper in Namibia.

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National Assembly (Namibia)

The National Assembly is the lower chamber of Namibia's bicameral Parliament.

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Naute Dam

The Naute Dam is a dam outside of Keetmanshoop in the Karas Region of Namibia.

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Northern Cape

The Northern Cape (Noord-Kaap; Kapa Bokone; Mntla-Koloni) is the largest and most sparsely populated province of South Africa.

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Oranjemund

Oranjemund (German for "Mouth of Orange") is a diamond mining town of 4,000 inhabitants situated in the ǁKaras Region of the extreme southwest of Namibia, on the northern bank of the Orange River mouth at the border to South Africa.

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Oranjemund Constituency

Oranjemund is a constituency in the ǁKaras Region of Namibia. ǁKaras Region and Oranjemund Constituency are 1992 establishments in Namibia.

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Ovambo language

The Ovambo language is a dialect cluster spoken by the Ovambo people in southern Angola and northern Namibia, of which the written standards are Kwanyama and Ndonga.

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Quiver Tree Forest

The Quiver Tree Forest (Kokerboomwoud in Afrikaans) is a forest and tourist attraction of southern Namibia.

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Radio

Radio is the technology of communicating using radio waves.

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Regions of Namibia

Namibia uses regions as its first-level subnational administrative divisions.

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South African Border War

The South African Border War, also known as the Namibian War of Independence, and sometimes denoted in South Africa as the Angolan Bush War, was a largely asymmetric conflict that occurred in Namibia (then South West Africa), Zambia, and Angola from 26 August 1966 to 21 March 1990.

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SWAPO

The South West Africa People's Organisation (SWAPO; Suidwes-Afrikaanse Volks Organisasie, SWAVO; Südwestafrikanische Volksorganisation, SWAVO), officially known as the SWAPO Party of Namibia, is a political party and former independence movement in Namibia (formerly South West Africa).

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The Namibian

The Namibian is the largest daily newspaper in Namibia.

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Total fertility rate

The total fertility rate (TFR) of a population is the average number of children that are born to a woman over her lifetime, if they were to experience the exact current age-specific fertility rates (ASFRs) through their lifetime, and they were to live from birth until the end of their reproductive life.

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Tses

Tses is a village in the ǁKaras Region of southern Namibia with a population of approximately 1000; probably 1000 more live in the surrounding semi-desert farming hinterland.

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Windhoek

Windhoek is the capital and largest city of Namibia.

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2004 Namibian general election

General elections were held in Namibia on 15 and 16 November 2004 to elect the President and National Assembly.

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2004 Namibian local and regional elections

Namibia held two subnational elections in 2004.

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2010 Namibian local and regional elections

Namibia held elections for its local and regional councils on 26 and 27 November 2010.

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2015 Namibian local and regional elections

Namibia held elections for their local and regional councils on 27 November 2015.

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2020 Namibian local and regional elections

Local and regional elections were held in Namibia on 25 November 2020 to elect new local and regional councils.

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See also

Coasts of South Africa

• North Coast (KwaZulu-Natal)
• South Coast (KwaZulu-Natal)
• West Coast, Western Cape
• Wild Coast Region, Eastern Cape
• ǁKaras Region

Regions of Namibia

• Erongo Region
• Hardap Region
• ISO 3166-2:NA
• Kavango East
• Kavango Region
• Kavango West
• Khomas Region
• Kunene Region
• Ohangwena Region
• Omaheke Region
• Omusati Region
• Oshana
• Oshikoto Region
• Otjozondjupa Region
• Regions of Namibia
• Rehoboth area
• Zambezi Region
• ǁKaras Region

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ǁKaras_Region

Also known as !Karas Region, 11Karas Region, 1IKaras Region, 1lKaras Region, Economy of Karas Region, I1Karas Region, IIKaras Region, IlKaras Region, Karas (Region), Karas Region, Karas Region, Namibia, L1Karas Region, LIKaras Region, LlKaras Region, Politics of Karas Region, , ǁKaras.

, Regions of Namibia, South African Border War, SWAPO, The Namibian, Total fertility rate, Tses, Windhoek, 2004 Namibian general election, 2004 Namibian local and regional elections, 2010 Namibian local and regional elections, 2015 Namibian local and regional elections, 2020 Namibian local and regional elections.