Namibia

the Namibia which has been had in the southwest of Africa on the square 824,3  thousand sq. km, till 1990 the republic of South Africa (till 1968 was called as South West Africa) have been actually annexed. From the West the country is flowed about by Atlantic ocean, in the south is restricted by the river Orange, in the north - the inferior watercourse of Cunene. Official languages - English and afrikaans.

The Water front is levelled down and has only two good natural harbours - Walvis Bay and Ljuderits. The terrain Bulk - plateau in altitude 900-1500  the m, in the east downgraded to semi-desert Kalahari, and in the west restricted to the Big Terrace terminating towards neritic plain - deserts Namib. The plateau is broken into some sections by tectonic dints and valleys of the time rivers. Significant sections of desert Namib are occupied high (to 100  sandy dunes.

The Climate tropical, very dry, being under the influence cold Bengalese flows of Atlantic ocean. Average temperature of the most hot month (January) from 18  °C in desert Namib to 27  °C in Kalahari, the coldest - 12-16  °C. The Precipitation fluctuates from 10-50  mm a year at coast (often they fall out here in the form of fogs, instead of rains) to 400-600  mm in the extreme northeast. Except two boundary rivers - Cunene and Orange - constant stream flows are not present, and time often are brought by moving dunes. In the northeast in a dint the drying up loch Etosha lays, there are also other similar loches reviving only during a season of rains.

The Vegetation is poor, but is very original. Zlakovo-kustarnikovaja desert in the north of a plateau to the south is replaced by semidesert assemblages of acacias, along boundary line with Kalahari the savannah is stretched opustynennaja. The bulk of desert Namib at all has no constant vegetation: dunes are covered with a poor grass only after rare rains. But here ancient representatives of deserted flora, for example, a welwitschia - an arbour with very thick (to 1  were saved; m across diameter) a fulcrum lifted over bedrock of all on 10-15  sm, and two skinny leaves in length to 3  m which are saved throughout all life of a plant - more than 100 years. Other interesting aspect - a melon nara, fruiting time in 10 years. The fauna is so poor also: in deserts gnawers predominate (among which many rare species), meet trubkozub. - black rhinoceroses, mountain zebras Hartmanov, aard-wolfs, ratels, various antelopes, giraffes, elephants and lions - it is possible to meet typically African animals only in the extreme north in reservation Etosha. The coast resuscitates a large quantity of seabirds (cormorants, pelicans, seagulls, ochkovyh penguins), and also flock of cape seals.

The Population of Namibia (from above 1,5  million persons) is subdivided into 9 ethnic groups, 6 from which refer to to monogynopaedium to a bow, 3 - to kojsanskoj to language monogynopaedium. Most numerous of the people to a bow ovambo and gerero - are engaged in farming agriculture and cattle breeding, the people from kojsanskoj monogynopaediums - breeders damara, gottentoty-nama and bushmeny, living in Kalahari are engaged in the core in hunting and almost not bound to an external world. The majority of them adheres to traditional aboriginal convictions. Many have saved also ancient handcrafts: manufacturing of masks, ornaments from beads, etc. country Capital - Windhoek, practically is not present other large cities.