{"id":26276,"date":"2024-09-03T01:13:26","date_gmt":"2024-09-02T19:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=26276"},"modified":"2025-04-08T00:56:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T19:26:55","slug":"namibia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/namibia\/","title":{"rendered":"Key facts about Namibia"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Namibia:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Location:<\/strong> It is located on the <strong>southwestern coast<\/strong> of the African continent in the Southern and Eastern Hemispheres of Earth.<\/li>\n<li>Namibia shares a border with the surrounding countries of <strong>South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Angola. <\/strong>The Atlantic Ocean borders it to the west.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It has a diverse environment that is home to <strong>deserts, marshlands, savannas<\/strong>, mountains, and river valleys.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Namibia&#8217;s extent can be divided into three topographic zones from west to east.\n<ul>\n<li>The coastal Namib Desert runs along the country&#8217;s coast on the Atlantic Ocean. It gives way to the Central Plateau to the west with the Kalahari Desert located further inwards.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rivers:<\/strong> The only permanent rivers are the <strong>Kunene, the Okavango<\/strong>, the Mashi and the <strong>Zambezi <\/strong>on the northern border and the <strong>Orange <\/strong>on the southern.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mountain:<\/strong> Brandberg, also known as <strong>Mount Brand<\/strong> is Namibia\u2019s highest mountain and is located along the plateau\u2019s western escarpment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is Savanna grassland?<\/h3>\n<p>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).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-climate\/namibia-wild-animals-meat-drought-9543457\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Why Namibia plans to kill hundreds of its majestic wild animals for meat<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Namibia is located on the southwestern coast of the African continent in the Southern and Eastern Hemispheres of Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":26277,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-26276","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}