Dating back to an 1840 settlement, this country's capital and largest city (pop. around 431,000) is clean, orderly, and a mix of modern buildings with 19th and early-20th-century German architecture (like the Lutheran Christ Church pictured here and built in 1907) dating from Namibia's relatively brief period (just over 30 years, from 1884 till 1915) as a colony of imperial Germany. In fact, I remember hearing German spoken a fair bit here, along with English and Afrikaans (Namibia also came under British, then South African control after German colonial rule ended).



(source: Gabriel Nashixwa)