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Etosha National Park

Etosha National Park is a national park in northwestern Namibia and one of the largest national parks in Africa.

Namib-Naukluft Park

The Namib-Naukluft National Park is a national park in western Namibia, situated between the coast of the Atlantic Ocean and the edge of the Great Escarpment.

Skeleton Coast Park

Skeleton Coast National Park is a national park located in northwest Namibia, and has the most inaccessible shores, dotted with shipwrecks.

Waterberg Plateau Park

Waterberg Plateau Park is a national park in central Namibia on the Waterberg Plateau, 68 kilometres (42 mi) south-east of Otjiwarongo.

Dorob National Park

The Dorob National Park is a protected area in the Erongo region, along the central Namibian coast, gazetted as a national park under the Nature Conservation Ordinance No.4 of 1975 on 1 December 2010.

Bwabwata National Park

Bwabwata National Park is a protected area in northeastern Namibia that was established in 2007 and covers 6,274 km2 (2,422 sq mi).

Mudumu National Park

Mudumu is a National Park in Caprivi Region of north-eastern Namibia.

Nkasa Rupara National Park

Nkasa Rupara National Park, also Nkasa Lupala National Park, formerly Mamili National Park, is a national park in Namibia.

Khaudum National Park

Khaudum National Park is a national park in the Kalahari Desert in northeastern Namibia to the west of the Caprivi Strip.

Ai-Ais Richtersveld Park

The ǀAi-ǀAis/Richtersveld Transfrontier Park is a peace park straddling the border between South Africa and Namibia.

Cape Cross Seal Reserve

Cape Cross is a headland in the South Atlantic in Skeleton Coast, western Namibia..

Tsau ǁKhaeb National Park

The Tsau ǁKhaeb (Sperrgebiet) National Park or just Sperrgebiet National Park, formerly known as Sperrgebiet, is a diamond mining area in southwestern Namibia, in the Namib Desert.

Mamili National Park

Nkasa Rupara National Park, also Nkasa Lupala National Park, formerly Mamili National Park, is a national park in Namibia.

Hardap Game Reserve

The Hardap Dam is a dam close to Mariental in the Hardap Region of central Namibia.

Sossusvlei

Sossusvlei is a salt and clay pan surrounded by high red dunes, located in the southern part of the Namib Desert, in the Namib-Naukluft National Park of Namibia.

Deadvlei

Deadvlei is a white clay pan located near the more famous salt pan of Sossusvlei, in a valley between the dunes in the Namib-Naukluft Park in Namibia.

Dune 45

Dune 45 is a star dune in the Sossusvlei area of the Namib Desert in Namibia.

Fish River Canyon

The Fish River Canyon is located in the south of Namibia.

Spitzkoppe

The Spitzkoppe is a group of bald granite peaks or inselbergs located between Usakos and Swakopmund in the Namib desert of Namibia.

Twyfelfontein

Twyfelfontein, officially known as ǀUi-ǁAis, is a site of ancient rock engravings in the Kunene Region of north-western Namibia.

Burnt Mountain

The Burnt Mountain (German: Verbrannter Berg) is a hill with a solidified lava flow at the foot of a 12-kilometre-long volcanic ridge in Damaraland in northern Namibia.

Organ Pipes

The so-called Organ Pipes are situated near the small inselberg of the Burnt Mountain, west of the town of Khorixas in Namibia.

Epupa Falls

Epupa Falls is a series of large waterfalls formed by the Cunene River on the border of Angola and Namibia, in the Kaokoland area of the Kunene Region.

Ruacana Falls

Ruacana Falls is a waterfall located in Ruacana, Omusati on the Kunene River in Northern Namibia.

Quiver Tree Forest

The Quiver Tree Forest is a forest and tourist attraction of southern Namibia.

Lake Otjikoto

Otjikoto Lake is the smaller of only two permanent natural lakes in Namibia.

Sandwich Harbour

Sandwich Harbour, also known as Sandwich Bay, Sandvishawe, Sandvisbaai and Sandfisch Bai, is an area on the Atlantic coast of Namibia that includes a bay in the north and a lagoon at the southern end.

Vingerklip

The Vingerklip, a rock needle built up from sedimentary rock layers dating from the Tertiary period, is situated about 80 km southwest of the town of Outjo and approx.

Windhoek

Windhoek is the capital and largest city of Namibia.

Swakopmund

Swakopmund is a city on the coast of western Namibia, 352 km (219 mi) west of the Namibian capital Windhoek via the B2 main road.

Walvis Bay

Walvis Bay is a city in Namibia and the name of the bay on which it lies.

Lüderitz

Lüderitz is a town in the ǁKaras Region of southern Namibia.

Otjiwarongo

Otjiwarongo is a city of 49,000 inhabitants in Namibia.

Tsumeb

Tsumeb is a town of around 35,000 inhabitants and the largest town and the former capital of the Oshikoto region in northern Namibia..

Grootfontein

Grootfontein is a city with 26,839 inhabitants in the Otjozondjupa Region of central Namibia.

Keetmanshoop

Keetmanshoop is the administrative capital of the ǁKaras Region in southern Namibia.

Oshakati

Oshakati is a town in northern Namibia.

Ondangwa

Ondangwa is a town in the Oshana Region of northern Namibia, bordering the Oshikoto Region.

Rundu

Rundu is the capital and the largest city of the Kavango-East Region in northern Namibia.

Katima Mulilo

Katima Mulilo, or simply Katima is the capital of the Zambezi Region in Namibia.

Gobabis

Gobabis is a town in eastern Namibia.

Okahandja

Okahandja is a city of 45,182 inhabitants in Otjozondjupa Region, central Namibia, and the district capital of the Okahandja electoral constituency.

Karibib

Karibib is a town in the Erongo Region of western Namibia.

Usakos

Usakos is a town on the banks of river Khan, 140 kilometres north-east of Swakopmund in the Erongo Region of Namibia.

Henties Bay

Henties Bay is a coastal town in the Erongo Region of western Namibia.

Oranjemund

Oranjemund is a diamond mining town in the ǁKaras Region of the extreme southwest of Namibia, on the northern bank of the Orange River mouth at the border with South Africa.

Rosh Pinah

Rosh Pinah is a mining town located in southern Namibia, close to the border with South Africa.

Outjo

Outjo is a town of 15,000 inhabitants in the Kunene Region of Namibia.

Rehoboth

Rehoboth is a town in the Hardap Region of central Namibia, just north of the Tropic of Capricorn.

Khorixas

Khorixas is a town with about 9,000 inhabitants in the southern part of the Kunene Region, Namibia.

Opuwo

Opuwo is the capital of the Kunene Region in north-western Namibia.

Ongwediva

Ongwediva is a town in the Oshana Region in the north of Namibia.

Uis

Uis is a village located in the Erongo Region, Namibia.

Otavi

Otavi is a town with 10,000 inhabitants in the Otjozondjupa Region of Namibia.

Gochas

Gochas is a village in the Hardap Region of Namibia.

Maltahöhe

Maltahöhe is a village in southern central Namibia close to the Swartrand escarpment, about 110 km west of Mariental in the Hardap Region.

Arandis

Arandis is a mining town in the Erongo Region of western central Namibia.

Kamanjab

Kamanjab is a village in the Kunene Region of Namibia.

Tsumkwe

Tsumkwe is a settlement in the Otjozondjupa Region of northeastern Namibia and the district capital of the Tsumkwe electoral constituency.

Eenhana

Eenhana is the capital town of the Ohangwena Region, northern Namibia, on the border with Angola.

Helao Nafidi

Helao Nafidi is a town in Ohangwena Region in northern Namibia at the border to Angola.

Oshikango

Oshikango is a former village in northern Namibia and since 2004 part of the town of Helao Nafidi, although it still maintained its own village council for a number of years.

Nkurenkuru

Nkurenkuru is a town on the south-western banks of the Kavango River.

Khomas Region

Khomas is one of the fourteen regions of Namibia.

Erongo Region

Erongo is one of the 14 regions of Namibia.

Oshikoto Region

Oshikoto is one of the fourteen regions of Namibia, named after Lake Otjikoto.

Oshana Region

Oshana is one of the fourteen regions of Namibia; its capital is Oshakati.

Ohangwena Region

Ohangwena is one of the fourteen regions of Namibia; its capital is Eenhana.

Omusati Region

Omusati is one of the fourteen regions of Namibia; its capital is Outapi.

Kunene Region

Kunene is one of the fourteen regions of Namibia.

Otjozondjupa Region

Otjozondjupa is one of the fourteen regions of Namibia.

Kavango East Region

Kavango East is one of the fourteen regions of Namibia.

Kavango West Region

Kavango West is one of the fourteen regions of Namibia.

Zambezi Region

The Zambezi Region, known as the Caprivi Region until 2013, is one of Namibia's fourteen regions, situated in the north-eastern part of the country along the Zambezi River.

Hardap Region

Hardap is one of the fourteen regions of Namibia.

Karas Region

The ǁKharas Region is the southernmost, largest, and least densely populated of the 14 regions of Namibia; its capital is Keetmanshoop.

Omaheke Region

Omaheke is one of the fourteen regions of Namibia, the least populous region.

German South West Africa

German South West Africa was a colony of the German Empire from 1884 until 1915, when it was captured by the Western Allies during World War I.

Namibian War of Independence

The South African Border War, also known as the Namibian War of Independence, and sometimes denoted in South Africa as the Angolan Bush War, was a largely asymmetric conflict that occurred in Namibia, Zambia, and Angola from 26 August 1966 to 21 March 1990.

South West Africa

South West Africa was a territory under South African administration from 1915 to 1990.

Independence of Namibia

Herero and Namaqua Genocide

The Herero and Nama genocide, or the Namibian genocide, was the extermination of the Herero and the Nama people in German South West Africa perpetrated by the German Empire between 1904 and 1908.

Battle of Waterberg

The Battle of Waterberg took place on August 11, 1904, at the Waterberg, German South West Africa, and was the decisive battle in the Herero uprising..

Shark Island Concentration Camp

Shark Island or "Death Island" was one of five concentration camps in German South West Africa.

South West Africa Mandate

South West Africa was a territory under South African administration from 1915 to 1990.

Turnhalle Conference

The Turnhalle Constitutional Conference was a conference held in Windhoek between 1975 and 1977, tasked with the development of a constitution for a self-governed South West Africa (Namibia) under South African control.

Namibian Constitution

The Constitution of Namibia is the supreme law of the Republic of Namibia.

Ovambo People

The Ovambo people, also called Aawambo, Ambo, Aawambo, or Ovawambo (Kwanyama), are a Bantu ethnic group native to Southern Africa, primarily modern Namibia.

Herero People

The Herero are a Bantu ethnic group inhabiting parts of Southern Africa.

Himba People

The Himba are an ethnic group with an estimated population of about 50,000 people living in northern Namibia, in the Kunene Region and on the other side of the Kunene River in southern Angola.

Nama People

Nama are an African ethnic group who reside in South Africa, Namibia, and Botswana.

Damara People

The Damara, plural Damaran are an ethnic group who make up 8.5% of Namibia's population.

Kavango People

The Kavango people, also known as the vaKavango or haKavango, are a Bantu ethnic group that resides on the Namibian side of the Namibian–Angolan border along the Kavango River.

Lozi People

The Lozi people, also known as Balozi, are a Bantu-speaking ethnic group native to Zambia and Zimbabwe.

San People

The San peoples, or Bushmen, are the members of any of the indigenous hunter-gatherer cultures of southern Africa, and the oldest surviving cultures of the region.

Baster Community

The Basters are a Southern African ethnic group descended from Nama people of Khoekhoe origin and Europeans.

German-Namibians

German Namibians are a community of people descended from ethnic German colonists who settled in present-day Namibia.

Tswana Namibians

The Batswana are a Bantu ethnic group native to Southern Africa.

Oshiwambo Language

The Ovambo language or Oshiwambo, also known as the Namibian language, is a dialect cluster spoken by the Ovambo people in southern Angola and northern Namibia, of which the written standards are Kwanyama and Ndonga..

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