page_title: Windhoek
section_title: Road
hierarchical_section_title: Windhoek / Transport / Road
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Die Skyline Windhoeks, der Hauptstadt Namibias. Im Vordergrund ist ein Güterbahnhof der TransNamib, der namibischen Eisenbahngesellschaft zu sehen. Im Hintergrund dominiert das Khomas Hochland den Horizont, in deren Vordergrund die Christuskriche steht. English: A picture of the skyline of Windhoek, Namibia. In the foreground you can see the location of TransNamib, The Namibian Railway. The mountains of the Khomas Hochland dominate the horizon with the Christuskirche visible in the middle.
context_page_description: Windhoek is the capital and largest city of Namibia. It is located in central Namibia in the Khomas Highland plateau area, at around 1,700 metres above sea level, almost exactly at the country's geographical centre. The population of Windhoek in 2020 was 431,000 which is growing continually due to an influx from all over Namibia.
  The city developed at the site of a permanent hot spring known to the indigenous pastoral communities. It developed rapidly after Jonker Afrikaner, Captain of the Orlam, settled here in 1840 and built a stone church for his community. In the decades following, multiple wars and armed hostilities resulted in the neglect and destruction of the new settlement. Windhoek was founded a second time in 1890 by Imperial German Army Major Curt von François, when the territory was colonised by the German Empire.
  Windhoek is the social, economic, political, and cultural centre of the country. Nearly every Namibian national enterprise, governmental body, educational and cultural institution is headquartered there.
context_section_description: In 1928, Kaiserstraße, now Independence Avenue, was the first paved road in Windhoek. Ten years later the next one, Gobabis road, now Sam Nujoma Drive, was also paved. Today out of ca. 40,000 kilometres (25,000 mi) of Namibia's total road network, about 5,000 kilometres (3,100 mi) is sealed.
  Windhoek's three main access roads from Rehoboth, Gobabis, and Okahandja are paved, and are designed to be able to withstand the largest possible flood to be expected in fifty years. Sealed roads can carry traffic moving at 120 kilometres per hour (75 mph) and should last for 20 years.
  In 2014, The Roads Authority has planned to upgrade the Windhoek-Okahandja  road to a dual carriage way. It costs about N$1 billion and is expected to be completed in 2021.
  Later on, they also planned to upgrade the Windhoek and Hosea Kutako International Airport to a dual carriageway and is expected to be completed in 2022.
  As everywhere in Namibia, public transport is scarce and transportation across town is largely done by taxi; there were 6,492 registered taxis in 2013.
caption: Downtown Windhoek
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