Key facts about Namibia
03-09-2024
09:52 AM
1 min read
Overview:
Namibia plans to cull hundreds of its most majestic wild animals, including dozens of elephants and hippopotamuses, to provide meat for its 1.4 million people.
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).
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