Namibia
Namibia (officially Republic of Namibia) is a country in Southern Africa, with its capital at Windhoek, and is home to roughly 3.0M people.
Its official languages are Afrikaans, German, English, Herero, Khoekhoe, Kwangali, Lozi, Ndonga, Tswana; the currency in circulation is Namibian dollar ($) and South African rand (R); people from here are called Namibian.
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> NOTABLE_
- »The Namib is generally considered the oldest desert on Earth.
- »Namibia was the first country to write environmental protection into its constitution.
- »Its Skeleton Coast is lined with shipwrecks.
> THE OUTLINE_
Namibia straddles the Tropic of Capricorn.
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Namibia touches four neighbours: Angola to the north, Botswana to the east, South Africa to the southeast and Zambia to the northeast. Directions run from one centre to the other.
> THE CAPITAL_
Windhoek sits at about 1,700 m in the central highlands and grew around hot springs, which is what its name refers to.
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824,726 km² (318,428 sq mi), 34th largest of 198 countries and territories on file, almost exactly the size of Mozambique.
Population 3,030,131, 136th of 198 on file. That averages 3.7 per km² (9.5 per sq mi).
> THE FLAG_
The gold sun with twelve triangular rays sits on a blue and green field split by a red diagonal, blue for sky and ocean, green for vegetation, red for the people.