Contains the oldest desert on Earth, and was the first country to write environmental protection into its constitution.
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Namibia
Republic of Namibia ยท Namibiรซ
Africa
ยท Southern Africa
0Population
825.62Kkmยฒ of land
$4.96KGDP / person
WindhoekCapital
- ISO codes
- NA ยท NAM
- Density
- 3 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- Afrikaans, German, English, Herero, Khoekhoe, Kwangali, Lozi, Ndonga, Tswana
- Currencies
- Namibian dollar (NAD), South African rand (ZAR)
- Dial code
- +264
- Internet domain
- .na
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 20.5750ยฐ S, 17.1080ยฐ E
- Demonym
- Namibian
- UN region
- Southern Africa
- Economy
- Developing region
- Income group
- Upper middle income
- Total GDP
- $12.37B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 4
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By the numbers
How Namibia stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
144th
of 242 ยท 0.03% of world population
Land area
36th
of 242 ยท 0.55% of world land
GDP per person
144th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
226th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Namibia
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 2,494,530 people, the 144th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly one in 3,078 of everyone alive.
Covers 825,615 kmยฒ, making it the 36th largest country here - about 9 times the size of Portugal.
Population density is about 3 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Windhoek, at 22.57ยฐ S, 17.08ยฐ E, with a metropolitan population of about 268,132.
Shares land borders with 4 countries: Angola, Botswana, South Africa and Zambia.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, Africa/Windhoek.
The currency is the Namibian dollar (NAD, symbol $).
Has 9 official languages: Afrikaans, German, English, Herero and Khoekhoe (and 4 more).
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Africa/Windhoek
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UTC+02:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
1
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Windhoek
Khomas
22.5700ยฐ S, 17.0835ยฐ E
268.13K
2
Walvis Bay
Erongo
22.9575ยฐ S, 14.5053ยฐ E
52.06K
3
Swakopmund
Erongo
22.6689ยฐ S, 14.5350ยฐ E
29.49K
4
Otjiwarongo
Otjozondjupa
20.4595ยฐ S, 16.6400ยฐ E
24.82K
5
Grootfontein
Otjozondjupa
19.5666ยฐ S, 18.1166ยฐ E
24.1K
6
Keetmanshoop
Karas
26.5739ยฐ S, 18.1300ยฐ E
18.04K
7
Lรผderitz
Karas
26.6480ยฐ S, 15.1594ยฐ E
15.14K
๐งญ Worth the trip
Namib Desert & Sossusvlei
Desert
The oldest desert on Earth, where 300 m dunes meet a clay pan of 900-year-old blackened camelthorn trees.
Land neighbours
4 countries share a border with Namibia.