All About Namibia

Namibia is in southern Africa and borders the Atlantic Ocean to west, Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east, and South Africa to the south and east. Namibia gained independence on March 21, 1990 after the Namibian War for Independence ended. Windhoek is the largest city. The country belongs to the U.N. the Southern African Development Community (SADC), the Commonwealth of Nations, and the African Union.

Namibia is a stable multi-party parliamentary democracy and has a population of around 2,625,606 world population review (2018). The economy is mainly tourism, agriculture, herding, and mining. Namibia has the second lowest population density in the world. About a third of the country’s people live below the poverty line and 13.3 percent of adults are infected with HIV.