Which African country is named after the Namib desert, one of the oldest in the world?

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Marianna Terry

Geography

22 May, 13:07

Which African country is named after the Namib desert, one of the oldest in the world?

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Mathias Hahn · Answer 1

The country that is named after the Namib desert is Namibia.

Namibia has an area of 824, 292 km sq and is almost twice the size of Sweden. It is the second least densely populated country in the world after Mongolia and is situated along the south Atlantic coast of Africa.

It gained its independence from South Africa on March 21 1990 after the Namibian war of independence. Its capital city is Windhoek and the spoken languages are English as well as Afrikaans.