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Namibia: Windhoek Capital

2012/12/07

Windhoek is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Namibia. It is located in central Namibia in the Khomas Highland plateau area, at around 1,700 metres (5,600 ft) above sea level. The people of Windhoek in 2011 was 322,500 and grows continually due to an influx from amount over Namibia.
The town developed at the site of a permanent spring known to the indigenous pastoral communities. It developed rapidly after Jonker Afrikaner, Captain of the Orlam settled here in 1840 and built a stone church for his community.

Nevertheless, in the decades thereafter multiple wars and hostilities led to the neglect and destruction of the new settlement such that Windhoek was founded a second time in 1890 by Imperial German army Largest Curt von François.
Windhoek is the social, economic, and cultural centre of the country. Nearly each Namibian national enterprise, governmental body, educational and cultural institution is headquartered here.

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