Everything you need to know about Namibia
Explore Namibia from the Atlantic dunes and Fish River Canyon to the central highlands, Etosha and the northeastern river corridors. Learn all 14 regions, place 24 cities and towns and 16 sights, then explore ten illustrated topics and 80 reviewed quiz questions.
Read it, then make it stick
Geography of Namibia
A coastal desert, central highlands and rivers connecting four neighbours.
Know the shape of the country
Start with the 14 current regions, including Kavango East and Kavango West, then locate 24 cities and towns. Follow the Kunene, Okavango, Orange, Fish and Zambezi through their full mapped courses, and explore the South Atlantic beyond the country’s coast. Rivers continue into Angola, Botswana, South Africa, Lesotho, Zambia and Mozambique as appropriate. Water geometry is independent of the opening view; the Fish is predominantly seasonal. Region boundaries: Namibia Statistics Agency via OCHA/geoBoundaries, CC BY 3.0 IGO. Waters: Natural Earth, public domain, and OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
Places worth visiting
Essential · Nature
Sossusvlei
A salt and clay pan among the dunes of the Namib Sand Sea. Its setting connects shifting sand with the seasonal Tsauchab River, which usually ends inland rather than reaching the coast.
Place sixteen selected sights across Namibia, from the Namib Sand Sea and rock-art landscapes to the northern rivers and the capital. Essential places come first, followed by further detours. Essential is our shortlist for a first trip, and worth a detour goes further. Select a pin to read about a place, then play the map and find them all.
Take Afrikaans with you
Greetings and politeness
Hello, please, thank you, sorry: the ten openers everything else builds on.
Keep going one country deeper
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