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[6] [7] The price of gasoline was ~13 N$ per liter, [8] and the price of liquid petroleum gas (LPG) was ~8 N$ per liter. [9] Rent for a family accommodation may exceed 12000 N$ per month in safe urban locations. [10] The price of a 1-litre water bottle is ~15 N$, one litre of UHT Milk is ~15N$, and a raw egg is ~2N$.
Romans extensively used fired brick of a shape and type now called Roman bricks. [15] Building with brick gained much popularity in the mid-18th century and 19th centuries. This was due to lower costs with increases in brick [16] manufacturing and fire-safety in increasingly crowded cities.
The economy of Namibia has a modern market sector, which produces most of the country's wealth, and a traditional subsistence sector. Although the majority of the population engages in subsistence agriculture and herding, Namibia has more than 200,000 skilled workers and a considerable number of well-trained professionals and managerials.
In an effort to control relocation attempts, with permission from the farm owner, Mrs O Scheel, [6] on March 15, 1955, the government of South West Africa (now Namibia) declared the Hoba meteorite to be a national monument. Since 1979 the proclamation has been extended to an area of 425 m².
Accrington bricks, or Nori, [1] are a type of iron-hard engineering brick, produced in Altham near Accrington, Lancashire, England from 1887 to 2008 and again from 2015. [2] They were famed for their strength, and were used for the foundations of the Blackpool Tower and the Empire State Building .
Keetmanshoop is a town [2] in the ǁKaras Region of southern Namibia. It is named after Johann Keetman [ de ] , a German industrialist and benefactor of the city. Keetmanshoop had a population of 27,862 people in 2023.
In March 2018, the Namibian government in association with French Groupe PSA signed an investment agreement to initiate a joint-venture to assemble Opel and Peugeot vehicles in Walvis Bay. The N$190m-project [ 42 ] has been earmarked to commence in 2018 with a forecasted annual target volume of 5000 units by 2020, a target carried by SACU ...
The Spitzkoppe (from German for "pointed dome"; also referred to as Spitzkop, Groot Spitzkop, or the "Matterhorn of Namibia") is a group of bald granite peaks or inselbergs located between Usakos and Swakopmund in the Namib desert of Namibia.