8,650 km2 (3,339 sq mi) (Oshana) – 161,510 km2 (62,361 sq mi) (ǁKaras Region)
Government
Region Government, National government
Subdivisions
Constituencies
Politics of Namibia
Constitution
Constituent Assembly
Executive
President
Nangolo Mbumba
Vice-President
Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah
Prime Minister
Saara Kuugongelwa
Cabinet
Legislature
National Council
Chairman: Bernard Sibalatani
National Assembly
Speaker: Peter Katjavivi
Judiciary
Supreme Court
Chief Justice: Peter Shivute
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Regions
Constituencies
Elections
Recent elections
General: 2014
2019
2024
Regional: 2010
2015
2020
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Minister: Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah (list)
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Namibia uses regions as its first-level subnational administrative divisions. Since 2013, it has 14 regions which in turn are subdivided into 121 constituencies.
Upon Namibian independence, the pre-existing subdivisions from the South African administration were taken over. Since then, demarcations and numbers of regions and constituencies of Namibia are tabled by delimitation commissions and accepted or declined by the National Assembly.
In 1992, the 1st Delimitation Commission, chaired by Judge President Johan Strydom, proposed that Namibia should be divided into 13 regions. The suggestion was approved in the lower house, The National Assembly. In 2014, the 4th Delimitation Commission amended the number of regions to fourteen.[1]
The most urbanised and economically active regions are the Khomas and Erongo region, with Khomas home to the capital, Windhoek, and Erongo home to Walvis Bay and Swakopmund.
The table below shows statistics from the 2023 Population and Housing Census:
Region
Population
People per km2
Average Household Size
Khomas
494,605
13.4
3.6
Ohangwena
337,729
31.5
4.8
Omusati
316,671
11.9
4.2
Oshikoto
257,302
6.7
4.1
Oshana
230,801
26.7
3.7
Erongo
240,206
3.8
3.1
Otjozondjupa
220,811
2.1
3.6
Kavango East
218,421
9.1
5.3
Zambezi
142,373
9.7
3.7
Kunene
120,762
1.0
3.8
Kavango West
123,266
5.0
5.5
Hardap
106,680
1.0
3.6
!Karas
109,893
0.7
3.1
Omaheke
102,881
1.2
3.3
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Immanuel, Shinovene (12 April 2012). "Caprivi is no more". The Namibian.
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