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Location of Namibia Detailed map of Namibia based on radar Topographic map of Namibia. At 824,292 km 2 (318,261 sq mi), Namibia is the world's thirty-fourth largest country. After Mongolia , Namibia is the second least densely populated country in the world (2.7 inhabitants per square kilometre (7.0/sq mi)).
Namibia (/ n ə ˈ m ɪ b i ə / ⓘ, / n æ ˈ-/), [16] [17] officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa.Its western border is the Atlantic Ocean.It shares land borders with Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the east and south.
South Africa occupies the southern tip of Africa, its coastline stretching more than 2,850 kilometres (1,770 miles) from the desert border with Namibia on the Atlantic (western) coast southwards around the tip of Africa and then northeast to the border with Mozambique on the Indian (eastern) coast.
Geography of Namibia An enlargeable topographic map of Namibia. Geography of Namibia. Namibia is: a sub-Saharan country; Location: Eastern Hemisphere and Southern Hemisphere; Africa. Southern Africa; Time zone: South African Standard Time ; Extreme points of Namibia High: Konigstein 2,606 m (8,550 ft) Low: South Atlantic Ocean 0 m
The Namibia–South Africa border dispute centers on the precise demarcation along the Orange River, which forms the southern boundary of Namibia. Historically, the 1890 Helgoland-Zanzibar Treaty between Britain and Germany set the boundary along the northern bank of the river. However, Namibia argues that, based on international principles and ...
In physical geography, the geographical delineation for the subregion is the portion of Africa south of the Cunene and Zambezi Rivers: Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and the part of Mozambique that lies south of the Zambezi River.
The Kalahari Desert is a large semi-arid sandy savanna in Southern Africa extending for 900,000 square kilometres (350,000 sq mi), covering much of Botswana, as well as parts of Namibia and South Africa.
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.