Key facts about Namibia

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About Namibia:

Location: It is located on the southwestern coast of the African continent in the Southern and Eastern Hemispheres of Earth.
Namibia shares a border with the surrounding countries of South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Angola. The Atlantic Ocean borders it to the west.
It has a diverse environment that is home to deserts, marshlands, savannas, mountains, and river valleys.
Namibia’s extent can be divided into three topographic zones from west to east.
- The coastal Namib Desert runs along the country’s coast on the Atlantic Ocean. It gives way to the Central Plateau to the west with the Kalahari Desert located further inwards.
Rivers: The only permanent rivers are the Kunene, the Okavango, the Mashi and the Zambezi on the northern border and the Orange on the southern.
Mountain: Brandberg, also known as Mount Brand is Namibia’s highest mountain and is located along the plateau’s western escarpment.

Q1: What is Savanna grassland?

It is a vegetation type that grows under hot, seasonally dry climatic conditions and is characterized by an open tree canopy above a continuous tall grass understory (the vegetation layer between the forest canopy and the ground).

Source: Why Namibia plans to kill hundreds of its majestic wild animals for meat