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- <title>
- Namibia: Geography
- </title>
- <article><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Namibia
- Geography</hdr><body>
- <p>Location: Southern Africa, bordering the South Atlantic Ocean
- between Angola and South Africa
- </p>
- <list>
- <l>Area:</l>
- <l> total area: 824,290 km2</l>
- <l> land area: 823,290 km2</l>
- <l> comparative area: slightly more than half the size of
- Alaska</l>
- </list>
- <p>Land boundaries: total 3,935 km, Angola 1,376 km, Botswana 1,360
- km, South Africa 966 km, Zambia 233 km
- </p>
- <p>Coastline: 1,489 km
- </p>
- <list>
- <l>Maritime claims:</l>
- <l> contiguous zone: 24 nm</l>
- <l> exclusive economic zone: 200 nm</l>
- <l> territorial sea: 12 nm</l>
- </list>
- <p>International disputes: short section of boundary with Botswana is
- indefinite; disputed island with Botswana in the Chobe River;
- quadripoint with Botswana, Zambia, and Zimbabwe is in disagreement;
- claim by Namibia to Walvis Bay and 12 offshore islands administered
- by South Africa; Namibia and South Africa have agreed to jointly
- administer the area for an interim period; the terms and dates to be
- covered by joint administration arrangements have not been established
- at this time, and Namibia will continue to maintain a claim to
- sovereignty over the entire area; recent dispute with Botswana over
- uninhabited Kasikili (Sidudu) Island in the Linyanti River
- </p>
- <p>Climate: desert; hot, dry; rainfall sparse and erratic
- </p>
- <p>Terrain: mostly high plateau; Namib Desert along coast; Kalahari
- Desert in east
- </p>
- <p>Natural resources: diamonds, copper, uranium, gold, lead, tin,
- lithium, cadmium, zinc, salt, vanadium, natural gas, fish; suspected
- deposits of oil, natural gas, coal, iron ore
- </p>
- <list>
- <l>Land use:</l>
- <l> arable land: 1%</l>
- <l> permanent crops: 0%</l>
- <l> meadows and pastures: 64%</l>
- <l> forest and woodland: 22%</l>
- <l> other: 13%</l>
- </list>
- <p>Irrigated land: 40 km2 (1989 est.)
- </p>
- <p>Environment: inhospitable with very limited natural water
- resources; desertification
- </p>
- <p>Note: Walvis Bay area is an exclave of South Africa in Namibia
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