Editing Tsumeb (section)

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|name                   = Tsumeb
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|motto                  = ''Glück Auf'' <br><small>([[German language|German]] for ''Good luck'')</small>
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|subdivision_type       = Country
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|subdivision_type1      = [[Regions of Namibia|Region]]
|subdivision_name1      = [[Oshikoto Region]]
|subdivision_type2      = [[Constituencies of Namibia|Constituency]]
|subdivision_name2      = [[Tsumeb Constituency]]
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|government_type        = Town-council
|leader_title           = Mayor
|leader_name            = Mathews Hangula ([[South West Africa People's Organisation|SWAPO]])
|leader_title1          =  Deputy Mayor
|leader_name1           = Anmirie Garises ([[Popular Democratic Movement|PDM]])
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|population_as_of       = 2023
|population_footnotes   = <ref name=nsa>{{cite web | title=Table 4.2.2 Urban population by Census years (2001 and 2011) | url=http://cms.my.na/assets/documents/p19dmn58guram30ttun89rdrp1.pdf | work=Namibia 2011 – Population and Housing Census Main Report | publisher=Namibia Statistics Agency | access-date=19 May 2017 | page=40}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://nsa.nsa.org.na/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Preliminary-Report-doc-fn.pdf |title=2023 Population & Housing Census Preliminary  Report|website=Statistics Namibia| df=dmy }}</ref>
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|population_total                = 34,960
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| timezone              = [[South African Standard Time|SAST]]
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{{Contains special characters|Khoekhoe}}

'''Tsumeb''' ({{langx|hz|Okavisume}};<ref>{{cite news | title=Windhoek?! Rather make that Otjomuise | url=https://www.namibian.com.na/16007/archive-read/Windhoek-Rather-make-that-Otjomuise | last=Menges | first=Werner | newspaper=[[The Namibian]] | date=12 May 2005}}</ref> {{langx|naq|ǂAixorobes}}) is a city<ref name="ALANlist">{{cite web
|url=http://www.alan.org.na/?q=localauthorities/list
|title=Local Authorities
|publisher=Association of Local Authorities in Namibia (ALAN)
|access-date=1 October 2012}}</ref> of around 35,000 inhabitants and the largest town in the [[Oshikoto Region|Oshikoto region]] in northern [[Namibia]]. 

Tsumeb, since its founding in 1905, has been primarily a mining town. The town is the site of a deep mine (the lower workings now closed) whose ore deposits with respect to variety, rarity and aesthetics of minerals have been listed among 100 geological heritage sites around the world by the [[International Union of Geological Sciences]] (IUGS).