Tsumeb

Tsumeb is a city of 15,000 inhabitants and the biggest city in Oshikoto area in northern Namibia. Tsumeb is the "gateway to the north" of Namibia. It is the nearest metropolis to the Etosha National Park. Tsumeb was the nearby capital of Oshikoto until 2008 whilst Omuthiya was proclaimed a town and the brand new capital.5 The area round Tsumeb bureaucracy its own electoral constituency and has a population of forty four,113. The town is the website of a deep mine , that during its heyday turned into acknowledged clearly as "The Tsumeb Mine" however has considering that been renamed the Ongopolo Mine. The call Tsumeb is usually reported "TSOO-meb".

The name isn't always a by-product of German, Afrikaans, or English. It has been counseled that it comes from Nama and way both "Place of the moss" or "Place of the frog". Perhaps this vintage name had something to do with the large herbal hill of inexperienced, oxidized copper ore that existed there earlier than it turned into mined out.