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Kavango Region

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Also known as Okavango Region

former region of Namibia

Key facts

Country
Namibia
Capital
Rundu
Total
48,742 km (18,819 sq mi)
Density
4.5823/km (11.868/sq mi)
Time zone
UTC+2 ( CAT )

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Encyclopedic overview

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. Its capital was Rundu.

In the north, Kavango bordered the Cuando Cubango Province of Angola, and in the southeast the North-West District of Botswana. Domestically, it bordered the following regions:

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kavango Region” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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