Oshikuku
Sign in to saveOshikuku is a town in Omusati Region in the north of Namibia. It is situated on the C46 from Oshakati to Ruacana about west of Oshakati. It is the district capital of Oshikuku Constituency. Oshikuku had a population of 5,499 people in 2023.
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Vinony files it under Catholic missions in Ovamboland, Populated places in the Omusati Region and Towns in Namibia.
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Place details
- Locality
- Oshikuku
- Region
- Omusati Region
- Country
- Namibia
- Population
- 3,272
- Timezone
- Africa/Windhoek
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Namibia
- Located in
- Oshikuku Constituency
- Population
- 5499
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
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Oshikuku is a town in Omusati Region in the north of Namibia. It is situated on the C46 from Oshakati to Ruacana about west of Oshakati. It is the district capital of Oshikuku Constituency. Oshikuku had a population of 5,499 people in 2023.
==History== After Iipumpu Ya Tshilongo, king of the Uukwambi from 1907 to 1932, had resisted the establishment of mission stations in his territory for years, he finally allowed the Catholic Church to establish the first mission station in former Ovamboland in Oshikuku in 1924. The station was established under the leadership of missionary and later Archbishop Joseph Gotthardt. Oshikuku is to this day home to a Roman Catholic Church parish.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Oshikuku” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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