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Mpungu
Sign in to saveMpungu is a settlement and a former mission station of the Finnish Missionary Society in the Mpungu Constituency in the Kavango West Region in Northern Namibia. It is located ca. 40 km south-west of Nkurenkuru and is inland as opposed to other former Finnish mission stations, which were located along the Kavango River. Today, a tarred highway from Ovamboland to Kavango connects Mpungu to other places in northern Namibia.
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- human settlement
- Country
- Namibia
- Located in
- Mpungu Constituency
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
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Mpungu is a settlement and a former mission station of the Finnish Missionary Society in the Mpungu Constituency in the Kavango West Region in Northern Namibia. It is located ca. 40 km south-west of Nkurenkuru and is inland as opposed to other former Finnish mission stations, which were located along the Kavango River. Today, a tarred highway from Ovamboland to Kavango connects Mpungu to other places in northern Namibia.
==History== The mission station was founded in 1951 by Hellin Elomaa, a nurse, who also founded a small clinic there.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mpungu” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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