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Namibia at a
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Country name:
Republic of Namibia |
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Area:
825,418
kmē |
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Population:
2 million (UN estimate 2005) |
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Population density:
2.43 per sq km. |
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Population growth:
1.19% |
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Birth Rate:
34.17 births/1000 population |
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People:
86%
African (50% Owambo, 9% Kavango, 7% Herero, 7%
Damara, 5% Nama, 4% Caprivian, 3% San, 2% Baster,
0.5% Tswana), 7.4% mixed, 6.6% white |
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Language:
English, Afrikaans, German, Herero |
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Religion:
Christian, Lutheran and native beliefs 10%
(including Muslim and Hindu) |
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Literacy:
65% of total population, Female 31% Male 45% |
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Government:
Republic |
Republic
of Namibia, is a country in southern Africa on the
Atlantic coast. It shares borders with Angola and
Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east, and South
Africa to the south. Namibia gained independence
from South Africa in 1990 and its capital city is
Windhoek (German: Windhuk). Namibia is a member
state of the United Nations (UN), the Southern
African Development Community (SADC), the African
Union (AU), and the Commonwealth of Nations. It is
named after the Namib Desert.
Namibia can be divided into four major geographical
segments. In the west stretches the Namib Desert
with hardly any vegetation. It reaches from the
north of South Africa up to Angola. The desert belt
has a width of about 100 kms in the south and 1100
kms in the north, gets up to 600 metres high and is
characterised by mighty expanses of sand dunes in
its central part. In the north and the south it has
predominantly gravel fields. Towards the inland, the
desert belt is followed by the "Escarpment", a
mountain wall of up to 2000 metres. Namibia's
highest mountain is the Brandberg with a height of
2579 m. |
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