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Key facts
- Country
- Namibia
- Seat
- Katima Mulilo
- Governor
- Dorothy Kabula
- Total
- 14,785 km (5,709 sq mi)
- Density
- 9.7/km (25/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+2 ( CAT )
- Hdi 2017
- 0.628 , medium · 8th
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- region of Namibia
- Official name
- Caprivi
- Country
- Namibia
- Located in
- Namibia
- Contains
- Sibinda Constituency
- Capital
- Katima Mulilo
- Official language
- English language
- Population
- 90596
- Area
- 14528
- Time zone
- Central Africa Time
- Shares border with
- Chobe District
- Official website
- www.arc.org.na/home.php?pn=caprivi_council
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- Commons category
- Zambezi, Namibia
- topic's main category
- Category:Zambezi Region
- language used
- Khwe
- different from
- Zambezi River
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- native label
- Zambezi Region
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Encyclopedic overview
The Zambezi Region, known as the Caprivi Region until 2013, is one of Namibia's fourteen regions, situated in the north-eastern part of the country along the Zambezi River. Located entirely in the Caprivi Strip, the region's capital is Katima Mulilo. The Katima Mulilo Airport is 18 kilometres south-west of the town, while the village of Bukalo is located 43 kilometres south-east of Katima Mulilo. The region has eight electoral constituencies and a population of 142,373 according to the 2023 census.
Politics
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Zambezi Region” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.