Oshikoto Region

Description

Oshikoto is one of the fourteen regions of Namibia, named after Lake Otjikoto near its former capital Tsumeb. The capital of Oshikoto is Omuthiya. The northern part of the region is agricultural, whereas the main economic activities in the southern part are cattle rearing and mining. The two areas have important cultural and historical links in that the Ndonga people have extracted copper at Tsumeb since the earliest times in order to make rings and tools.
Oshikoto is one of only three regions without either a shoreline or a foreign border. It borders the following regions:

Ohangwena - north
Kavango West - east
Otjozondjupa - southeast
Kunene - southwest
Oshana - westThis region comprises eleven constituencies:

Eengodi
Guinas
Nehale lyaMpingana
Okankolo
Olukonda
Omuntele
Omuthiyagwiipundi
Onayena
Oniipa
Onyaanya
Tsumeb

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Wikipedia, Blueballoon

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