City
Windhoek
Capital of Namibia
What guided this image
- Landmarks
- Christuskirche; Tintenpalast; Alte Feste; Independence Memorial Museum; arid-adapted highland vegetation; Eros and Auas Mountains; German Wilhelmine
- Viewpoint
- Favor an elevated viewpoint overlooking the city center from the slopes of the Eros Mountains or near the Alte Feste, looking across the green Parliament Gardens toward Christuskirche and Independence Avenue, with the dramatic Auas Mountains framing the background.
- Palette
- Green should be the predominant color, especially in the lush Parliament Gardens, roadside jacarandas, camel thorn trees, and acacia scrub covering the mountain slopes.
- Guarded against
- Not a generic desert oasis or flat savanna
Population386,219Wikidata: 322,500
Coordinates22.56°S, 17.08°E
Elevation1,650 m
Area5,133,000,000 km²
Time zoneAfrica/WindhoekUTC+2
Solar noon12:52clock runs 0.9 h ahead of the sun
Through the Earth
Dig straight through the Earth from Windhoek and you surface nearest to Kekaha, United States — 337 km from the exact antipodal point.
Nearest cities in the atlas
| Gaborone | BW | 929 km |
| Soweto | ZA | 1,166 km |
| Bloemfontein | ZA | 1,168 km |
| Pretoria | ZA | 1,181 km |
| Johannesburg | ZA | 1,181 km |
| Cape Town | ZA | 1,271 km |
| Maseru | LS | 1,282 km |
| Lusaka | ZM | 1,421 km |
Twinned cities
- Berlin DE
- Brazzaville CG
- Douala CM
- Gaborone BW
- Harare ZW
- Havana CU
- Johannesburg ZA
- Nanjing CN
- San Antonio US
- Shanghai CN
10 of 17 twinned cities are in this atlas. See the full network →