10 Things You Didn’t Know About Namibia
Here are 10 interesting facts about Namibia for your arsenal of trivia:
- The name Namibia comes from the Nama word meaning “vast place of nothingness”
- It is an appropriate name as Namibia is the second least densely populated country in the world, after Mongolia
- The country is home to the highest sand dunes in the world: at a whopping 325 metres, the Big Daddy dune in Sossusvlei is a smidge taller than The Shard in London
- It is home to the oldest, driest desert in the world: the Namib Desert
- You’ll also find the largest free-roaming population of black rhino and desert elephant, as well as 25% of the world’s cheetah in Namibia
- It was the first African country to incorporate environmental protection into its constitution and more than 40% of our country is under conservation management
- It was once a German colony, and every year The Windhoek Oktoberfest reveals a special festival beer created by Namibian Breweries in preparation for an average of 10,500 litres of beer to be drunk in the sun at the festival
- On average, visitors can bask in 300 days of sunshine each year
- It is the safest country in Africa to work in as a journalist: It remains number one in Africa in press freedom and ranks 24th out of 180 countries globally according to the World Press Freedom ranking
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Namibia Tourism Board
The Namibia Tourism Board (NTB) was founded on 02 April 2001 and entrusted with a mandate from the Namibian government to market the country’s tourism industry both nationally and internationally.
