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Ondangwa, the Glossary

Ondangwa (earlier spelling Ondangua) is a town in the Oshana Region of northern Namibia, bordering the Oshikoto Region.^[1]

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1890 establishments in Africa
Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Mission mission stations in Ondonga
Populated places in the Oshana
Towns in Namibia

Andimba Toivo ya Toivo Airport

Andimba Toivo ya Toivo Airport formerly known as Ondangwa Airport is an airport serving Ondangwa, a town in the Oshana Region of Namibia.

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Andimba Toivo ya Toivo Senior Secondary School

Andimba Toivo ya Toivo Senior Secondary School is a school in the Oshana Region of Namibia, in the suburb Oluno in Ondangwa town.

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Angelina Immanuel

Angelina Ndinouange Immanuel (born 1992) is a Namibian youth activist and educator.

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Angola

Angola, officially the Republic of Angola, is a country on the west-central coast of Southern Africa.

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August Pettinen

August Pettinen (9 December 1857 Ristiina – 5 March 5, 1914) was a Finnish missionary who worked in Owamboland (now Namibia) for twenty years from 1887.

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B1 road (Namibia)

The B1 is a national highway of Namibia, and is the country's longest and most significant road, running the length of the country from south to north.

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The Province of the Cape of Good Hope (Provinsie Kaap die Goeie Hoop), commonly referred to as the Cape Province (Kaapprovinsie) and colloquially as The Cape (Die Kaap), was a province in the Union of South Africa and subsequently the Republic of South Africa.

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Carl Hugo Hahn

Carl Hugo Hahn (1818–1895) was a Baltic German missionary and linguist who worked in South Africa and South-West Africa for most of his life.

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Christmas

Christmas is an annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ, observed primarily on December 25 as a religious and cultural celebration among billions of people around the world.

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Eddie Amkongo

Eddie Shimwethelini Amkongo (born 1 December 1945) is a Namibian civil servant and diplomat.

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Ekulo Senior Secondary School

Ekulo Senior Secondary School is a school near Omuthiya in the Oshikoto Region of Namibia.

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Electoral Commission of Namibia

The Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN) is an agency of the government of Namibia.

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Etosha National Park

Etosha National Park is a national park in northwestern Namibia and one of the largest national parks in Africa.

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Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Mission

The Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Mission (FELM, formerly The Finnish Missionary Society; Suomen Lähetysseura ry; Finska Missionssällskapet rf) is a Lutheran missionary society formed on January 19, 1859, in Helsinki, Finland.

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Grootfontein

Grootfontein (great spring, named after the nearby hot springs) is a city with 26,839 inhabitants in the Otjozondjupa Region of central Namibia.

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ICLEI

ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability (ICLEI, originally International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives) is an international non-governmental organization that promotes sustainable development.

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Independent Patriots for Change

The Independent Patriots for Change (IPC) is a political party in Namibia.

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Jooseppi Mustakallio

Jooseppi Mustakallio (June 18, 1857 in Säräisniemi – April 20, 1923 in Parikkala), originally Josef Schwartzberg, was a Finnish minister and the fourth mission director of the Finnish Missionary Society, after Akseli Hirn.

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Kavango Region

Kavango (before 1998: Okavango) was one of the thirteen regions of Namibia until it was split into the Kavango East and Kavango West Regions in 2013.

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Köppen climate classification

The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.

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KK Palace

KK Palace is an association football team in Ondangwa, Namibia.

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List of cities and towns in Namibia

Cities and towns in Namibia are distinguished by the status the Government of Namibia has vested in them: Places in Namibia that are governed by a municipality are cities, places with a town council are towns.

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Martti Rautanen

Martti (Martin) Rautanen (10 November 1845 Tikopis (Тикопись), Ingria – 19 October 1926 Olukonda, South West Africa) was the pioneer of the Finnish Mission in Ovamboland, South West Africa.

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Municipal council

A municipal council is the legislative body of a municipality or local government area.

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Namibia

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

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New Era (Namibia)

The New Era is a daily national newspaper owned by the government of Namibia.

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Olukonda

Olukonda is a settlement in the Oshikoto Region in the north of Namibia. Ondangwa and Olukonda are Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Mission mission stations in Ondonga.

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Onandjokwe State Hospital

Onandjokwe State Hospital, until 2016 Onandjokwe Lutheran Hospital, is the oldest hospital in the northern part of Namibia.

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Ondangwa Constituency

Ondangwa Constituency was an electoral constituency in the Oshana Region of Namibia until August 2013.

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Ondonga

Ondonga is a traditional kingdom of the Ovambo people in what is today northern Namibia.

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Ongandjera

Ongandjera (from "aagandji yiiyela", place of gold metal thread beads) is a tribal area near Okahao in the Omusati Region in northern Namibia.

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Oniipa

Oniipa is a town in the Oshikoto Region of northern Namibia and the district capital of the Oniipa electoral constituency. Ondangwa and Oniipa are Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Mission mission stations in Ondonga and towns in Namibia.

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Oshakati

Oshakati is a town in northern Namibia. Ondangwa and Oshakati are Populated places in the Oshana and towns in Namibia.

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Oshana

Oshana is one of the fourteen regions of Namibia, its capital is Oshakati.

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Oshikango

Oshikango is a former village in northern Namibia and since 2004 part of the town of Helao Nafidi, although it still maintained its own village council for a number of years.

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Oshikoto Region

Oshikoto is one of the fourteen regions of Namibia, named after Lake Otjikoto.

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Otjiwarongo

Otjiwarongo (beautiful place) is a city of 49,000 inhabitants in the Otjozondjupa Region of Namibia.

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Oukwanyama

Oukwanyama (Uukwanyama in the neighbouring Oshindonga dialect) is a traditional kingdom of the Ovambo people in what is today northern Namibia and southern Angola.

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Ovambo people

The Ovambo people, also called Aawambo, Ambo, Aawambo (Ndonga, Nghandjera, Kwambi, Kwaluudhi, Kolonghadhi, Mbalantu, mbadja), or Ovawambo (Kwanyama), are a Bantu ethnic group native to Southern Africa, primarily modern Namibia.

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Ovamboland

Ovamboland, also referred to as Owamboland, was a Bantustan and later a non-geographic ethnic-based second-tier authority, the Representative Authority of the Ovambos, in South West Africa (present-day Namibia).

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Paarl

Paarl (Afrikaans:; derived from Parel, meaning "pearl" in Dutch) is a city with 285,574 inhabitants in the Western Cape province of South Africa.

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Popular Democratic Movement

The Popular Democratic Movement (PDM) is an amalgamation of political parties in Namibia, registered as one singular party for representation purposes.

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Rail transport in Namibia

The rail service in Namibia is provided by TransNamib.

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Regions of Namibia

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

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Semi-arid climate

A semi-arid climate, semi-desert climate, or steppe climate is a dry climate sub-type.

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South Africa

South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.

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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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South African Defence Force

The South African Defence Force (SADF) (Afrikaans: Suid-Afrikaanse Weermag) comprised the armed forces of South Africa from 1957 until 1994.

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South African Standard Time

South African Standard Time (SAST) is the time zone used by all of South Africa as well as Eswatini and Lesotho.

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South West Africa

South West Africa, renamed to Namibia from 12 June 1968, was a South African Province under South African administration from 1915 to 1990, after which it became modern-day Namibia.

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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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References

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

Also known as Ondangua.

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1890 establishments in Africa

Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Mission mission stations in Ondonga

Populated places in the Oshana

Towns in Namibia

References