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Oranjemund (German for "Mouth of Orange") is a diamond mining town in the ǁKaras Region of the extreme southwest of Namibia, on the northern bank of the Orange River mouth at the border with South Africa. It had a population of 7,736 people in 2023.
Oranjemund is a constituency in the ǁKaras Region of Namibia. It covers an area of 4,623 km 2 (1,785 sq mi) and had a population of 9,837 in 2011, up from 7,789 in 2001. [ 1 ] The main towns are the district capital Oranjemund and the mining town of Rosh Pinah , the constituency also contains the Sendelingsdrift border post. [ 2 ]
Until 2017 the mining town of Oranjemund on the Atlantic coast was run by Namdeb, a company jointly owned by the Namibian government and the diamond mining and trading company De Beers. [4] On April 1, 2008, Kaapanda Shadika, an employee of De Beers , discovered a collection of copper ingots and remnants of elephant ivory while excavating an ...
Lithograph of James Edward Alexander after whom the town is named. Alexander Bay (Afrikaans: Alexanderbaai) is a town in the extreme north-west of South Africa.It is located on the southern bank of the Orange River mouth.
After 1976, large-scale shipping at Port Nolloth was reduced to a single tanker, the Oranjemund, which visited the port fortnightly to exchange supplies for fish and diamonds. [ 6 ] 61 metres long but with a draft of only 4.4 metres, the Oranjemund was well-suited for the navigational difficulties of the bay.
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Oranjemund Airport (IATA: OMD, ICAO: FYOG) is an airport serving Oranjemund, [1] a town in the ǁKaras Region of Namibia. The town and airport are located near the northern bank of the Orange River , which is the border between Namibia and South Africa .