Oshikoto

Oshikoto is one of the fourteen areas of Namibia, named after Lake Otjikoto close to its former capital Tsumeb. The capital of Oshikoto is Omuthiya. The northern part of the place is agricultural, while the principle financial sports inside the southern element are livestock rearing and mining. The two regions have crucial cultural and historic hyperlinks in that the Ndonga people have extracted copper at Tsumeb because the earliest instances which will make earrings and gear. Oshikoto is one among handiest 3 regions without either a coastline or a foreign border.

Pearl millet is the essential crop in the north, at the same time as livestock are reared inside the Mangetti and the Tsumeb district. Although the Tsumeb mine has handiest a constrained existence span, it may together with the associated assist industries and services, provide a boost for the communal regions of the place. The place's population has grown substantially over current years, partly because of redistribution in the Oshiwambo-speaking region. Apart from Tsumeb and Oniipa, humans have settled in a corridor along the trunk avenue, sometimes forming quite dense concentrations.