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{{Infobox settlement
| name = Windhoek
| native_name = ǀAi-ǁGams ([[Khoekhoe language|Khoekhoegowab]])<br>Otjomuise ([[Herero language|Otjiherero]])<br>Windhuk ([[German language|German]])
| nickname =
| settlement_type = City
| motto =
| image_skyline = Windhoek_aerial.jpg
| imagesize =
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| image_seal =
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| image_shield = Windhoek COA.svg
| shield_size = 80px
| image_blank_emblem =
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| pushpin_map = Namibia
| pushpin_label_position =
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| pushpin_map_caption = Location of Windhoek in Namibia
| subdivision_type = [[List of sovereign states|Country]]
| subdivision_name = [[Namibia]]
| subdivision_type1 = [[Regions of Namibia|Region]]
| subdivision_name1 = [[Khomas Region]]
| subdivision_type2 =
| subdivision_name2 =
| subdivision_type3 =
| subdivision_name3 =
| government_footnotes =
| government_type =
| leader_title = Mayor
| leader_name = [[Fransina Kahungo]]<ref>[https://neweralive.na/posts/new-windhoek-mayor-kahungu-upbeat City of Windhoek, 2019-12-16]</ref>
| leader_title1 = Deputy Mayor
| leader_name1 = Ian Subasubani<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.nbc.na/news/fransina-kahungu-elected-mayor-windhoek.27428 |title=Fransina Kahungu elected Mayor of Windhoek | | NBC |access-date=2019-12-16 |archive-date=2019-12-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191216105945/https://www.nbc.na/news/fransina-kahungu-elected-mayor-windhoek.27428 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
| established_title1 = First settled
| established_date1 = 1840
| established_title2 = Second founding
| established_date2 = 18 October 1890
| area_magnitude =
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| area_footnotes =
| area_total_km2 = 5133
| area_land_km2 = 
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| population_as_of = 2011
| population_footnotes =<ref name=nsa>{{cite web | title=Table 4.2.2 Urban population by Census years (2001 and 2011) | url=http://cms.my.na/assets/documents/p19dmn58guram30ttun89rdrp1.pdf | work=Namibia 2011 – Population and Housing Census Main Report | publisher=Namibia Statistics Agency | accessdate=24 August 2016 | page=39}}</ref>

| population_note =
| population_total = 325,858
| population_density_km2 = 62.8
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| population_blank1_title = Ethnicities
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| timezone = [[South African Standard Time|SAST]]
| utc_offset = +2
| coordinates = {{coord|22|34|12|S|17|5|1|E|region:NA|display=inline,title}}
| elevation_footnotes = 
| elevation_m = 1655
| elevation_ft = 5430
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| blank_name = [[Köppen climate classification|Climate]]
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| website = {{URL|windhoekcc.org.na}}
}}
'''Windhoek''' ({{lang-de|Windhuk}}) is the [[capital (city)|capital city]] of [[Namibia]]. It has a [[population]] of 230,000 people. Windhoek is the trade center for [[sheep]] skins. The area was controlled by [[Germany]] in 1885. It became the capital of the German [[colony]], [[German South-West Africa]], in [[1892]]. During [[World War I]], Windhoek was captured by [[South Africa]]. It was the capital of South West Africa (Namibia) under South African control until the independence of Namibia in 1990.

Windhoek has a semi-desert [[climate]].

Windhoek is known to be among the cleanest cities in Africa.<ref>https://southerntimesafrica.com/site/news/namibia-battles-to-regain-its-cleanest-in-africa-status{{Dead link|date=March 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}. Namibia battles to regain its ‘cleanest in Africa’ status || The Southern Times</ref>

==Gallery==
[[File:Windhoek ende 19 jahrhundert.jpg|thumbnail|300px|Windhoek at the end of the 19th century]]
[[File:Windhuk stamp.jpg|thumbnail|170px|Stamps for German South West Africa postmarked ''Windhuk'']]
[[File:A Windhoek Street.jpg|thumb|A street in Windhoek]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

== Other websites ==
* [http://www.windhoekcc.org.na Official homepage of the City of Windhoek - Windhuk]
* [http://www.namibiaonline.net/webcam_windhoek_namibia.html WebCams showing Windhoek]

;News
* [http://www.republikein.com.na Republikein, Namibian newspaper] (Afrikaans)
* [http://www.az.com.na Allgemeine Zeitung Namibias, Namibian newspaper] (German)
* [http://www.namibian.com.na The Namibian, newspaper] (English)

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