Omuthiya

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city
Omuthiyagwiipundi
Omuthiya (short form)
Coat of arms of Namibia.svg
Details 		Coat of arms Omuthiya Town Council.jpg
Details
Main street of Omuthiya
Main street of Omuthiya
motto Peace and Development
(Peace and Development)
Basic data
Population
Area
Population Density 		3800 (2011 census)
132.1 km²
28.8 inhabitants / km²
State
Region
Constituency 		Namibia
Oshikoto
Omuthiya
Establishment date (2008)
License plate
phone code
Website http://www.omuthiyatc.org.na/
Map of Omuthiya in Namibia
Political data

Mayor : Katrina Uusiku

Chief Executive Officer : Heskiel Nanyeni

Last election: 2015

Next election: 2020

City administration address:
Geographical data

Geographic coordinates : 17 ° 43′00 "S, 16 ° 13′00" E

Height : 1021  m

Omuthiya (officially Omuthiyagwiipundi ) is a city in Namibia and the capital of the Oshikoto region . It was named after the Omuthiya gwiipundi (means something like " camel thorn tree with benches to rest"). The city has 3800 inhabitants on an area of ​​132.1 square kilometers. Omuthiya is in the constituency of the same name .

Omuthiya was a negligible settlement until it was promoted to city status in 2008. With the city status, the city was also made the capital of the Oshikoto region and this status was revoked from Tsumeb . The regional administration set up for 22 million Namibia dollars was opened in August 2008 . Other facilities include a train station on the Tsumeb – Oshikango railway line , a hospital and a shopping center.

Local politics

In the 2015 local elections , no other party besides SWAPO ran . This received all seven seats in the local council.

gallery

  • Through traffic through Omuthiya

  • The Omuthiya Open Market

  • Tension mast in Omuthiya

  • Monuments in South Africa that originally stood in Omuthiya

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Namibia 2011 Population and Housing Census Preliminary Results. Namibia Statistics Agency, April 2012  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 9, 2012@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.nsa.gov.na  
  2. ↑ Creation of New Regions and Division and Redivision of Certain Regions into Constituencies: Regional Councils Act, 1992. Government of the Republic of Namibia, Government Gazette, August 9, 2013, No. 25, p. 40
  3. ↑ Govt Won't Let Tsumeb Die , The Namibia, September 25, 2008
  4. ↑ Official election result of the regional and local elections 2015, ECN, December 4, 2015 ( Memento of the original of December 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 150 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ecn.na

Coordinates: 17 ° 43 ′  S , 16 ° 13 ′  E