View Full Version : Windhoek, Namibia VII


StormShadow
March 22nd, 2006, 04:13 AM
Windhoek, Namibia, southern Africa. Enjoy.
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Renkinjutsushi
March 22nd, 2006, 05:15 AM
Looks good. :okay:

Do you happen to know if German is still being spoken there by the older generations at least?

♣628.finst
March 22nd, 2006, 05:49 AM
Nice pics.

But certainly living in Namibia is as worse as Arizona. (Totally Arid climate, sparse population concentrated in some cities)

StormShadow
March 22nd, 2006, 06:20 AM
Thanks for viewing.

Renkinjutsushi, I don't know if I could answer your question since I've never been to Namibia. We can trust CIAFactbook's data, perhaps. :okay:

From CIAFactbook;
Languages:

English 7% (official), Afrikaans common language of most of the population and about 60% of the white population, German 32%, indigenous languages: Oshivambo, Herero, Nama

Xäntårx, Yep, it's a very dry nation, I think it's more vegetated in some areas in that country. Windhoek is Namibia's biggest city, the others are very very small. A lot of "Animal" shows are filmed in Namibia too. :okay:

Svefn-g-Englar
March 22nd, 2006, 07:57 AM
Good pics and nice city, it looks clean and very well organized, at least in downtown, but WTF does Robert Mugabe's name do in that avenue?

SA BOY
March 22nd, 2006, 08:16 AM
cos he is an african "freedom fignter" the same and sam nkajoma the libirator of Namibia and ex SWAPO terrorist.A lot of the old SWAPO fighters were based in the surrounding countries of angolas and zim etc and fidel castro has 90 000 Cuban troops there fighting the South Africans and UNITA for 15 years

Svefn-g-Englar
March 22nd, 2006, 08:26 AM
Ok, thanks, I was forgetting that before being that virus that is infencting and killing Zimbabwe, Mugabe was a freedom fighter.

wc eend
March 22nd, 2006, 11:54 AM
Extremely interesting. How big is Windhoek actually?

Arpels
March 22nd, 2006, 03:27 PM
very Germanic, nice city :okay:

StormShadow
March 22nd, 2006, 08:33 PM
Extremely interesting. How big is Windhoek actually?


Well, according to www.windhoekcc.org.na , Windhoek's population is "223 364".


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Koenitz
March 23rd, 2006, 02:06 AM
Nice pics.

But certainly living in Namibia is as worse as Arizona. (Totally Arid climate, sparse population concentrated in some cities)

Why do you always had negative feelings about, virtually every developing countries?

Renkinjutsushi
March 23rd, 2006, 04:44 AM
Thanks for viewing.

Renkinjutsushi, I don't know if I could answer your question since I've never been to Namibia. We can trust CIAFactbook's data, perhaps. :okay:


From CIAFactbook;

Languages:

English 7% (official), Afrikaans common language of most of the population and about 60% of the white population, German 32%, indigenous languages: Oshivambo, Herero, Nama
Thanks for the info. :)

You are to blame
March 23rd, 2006, 06:14 PM
bump