Key facts about Namibia

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

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