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Namibia
Facts:
• Area: 825 418 km²
• Capital: Windhoek
• Currency: Namibian
Dollar
• Climate: Hot, rainy
summers Nov-Apr,
cooler winters
• People: Owambos
(50%), Whites (8%)
• Official language:
English
• Time: GMT plus two
hours (GMT + 1 from
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Much of this vast country is dominated by the ancient Namib
Desert, estimated to be the oldest desert in the world.
Namibia: took its name from the desert, though it actually
offers much more: huge game reserve, scenic towns and interesting
geological formations
Namibia is a dry and inhospitable country, prompting the first
inhabitants - the San Bushmen - to call it "the Land God Made
in Anger". It does however, offer scenic and impressive landscapes,
unique desert-adapted fauna and flora as well as the highest sand
dunes in the world. A stable democracy, vast diamond deposits and
huge game reserves are other characteristics.
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