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General
Location: Southwest Africa.
Note: When self-driving take particular care on gravel roads, they are like roads covered with snow. At night, animals on the road present a special hazard.
Malaria is endemic in Namibia. Seek medical advice before leaving your home country. Please, read this about MALARIA.
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Namibia Tourism
Private Bag 13346, Windhoek, Namibia
Tel: (61) 284 2111. Fax: (61) 284 2364.
Ministry of Environment & Tourism
Private Bag 13346, Swabou Building, 7 Post Stree Mall, Windhoek, Namibia
Tel: (61) 284 2111. Fax: (61) 229 936.
Namibia Tourism Overseas
England:
6 Chandos Street, London W1M 0LQ
Tel: (0171) 636 2924. Fax: (0171) 636 2969.
Germany:
Namibia Verkehrsbuero, Schiller Str. 42-44, D-60313 Frankfurt/Main
Tel: (069) 133760 Fax: (069) 13373615
Spain
Namiba Representative, Juan Hurtado de Mendoza, 5, 28036 Madrid
Tel: (1) 350 1532. Fax: (1) 350 1810
United States
Namibia Representative, 12 West 37th Street, New York 10018
Tel: (212) 465 0619. Fax: (212) 868-1654
AREA:
824,268 sq km (318,250 sq miles).
POPULATION: 1.8 million (1997 estimate).
POPULATION DENSITY: 1.8 per sq km.
CAPITAL: Windhoek. Population: 190,000 (1997 estimate).
GEOGRAPHY: Namibia is in southwest Africa. It is a large and mainly barren country sharing borders with Angola to the north, Botswana to the east, South Africa to the south and, in the Caprivi Strip, a narrow panhandle of Namibian territory jutting from the northeast corner of the country, with Zambia and Zimbabwe. To the west is 1280km (795 miles) of some of the most desolate and lonely coastline in the world. The port of Walvis Bay, situated roughly halfway down Namibia's coast, was returned by South Africa to Namibian jurisdiction in February 1994. Along its entire length, the vast shifting sand dunes of the Namib Desert spread inland for 80-130km (50-80 miles). In the interior, the escarpment of a north–south plateau slopes away to the east and north into the vast interior sand basin of the Kalahari. In the far northwest the 66,000 sq km (25,500 sq miles) of the Kaokoland mountains run along the coast, while further inland lies the Etosha Pan (a dried-out saline lake), surrounded by grasslands and bush which support a large and varied wildlife. The Etosha National Park & Game Reserve is one of the finest in Africa, in that it remains, to a large extent, free of man's influence.
LANGUAGE: English is the official language. Afrikaans, German, Herero and Owambo, amongst a variety of tongues, are also spoken.
RELIGION: Christian majority.
TIME: GMT + 2 (GMT + 1 from April to August).
ELECTRICITY: 220/240 volts AC. Outlets are of the 3-pin type.
COMMUNICATIONS: Telephone: IDD is available. Country code: 264. Outgoing international code: 00. Fax: Most hotels have facilities. Telex/telegram: Good facilities to all major centres. A telegraph service is available in every town. Post: Good postal service. Airmail to Europe takes from approximately four days to two weeks. Press: Newspapers are printed Monday to Saturdays. English-language dailies include The Windhoek Advertiser and The Namibian ; weeklies include New Era and The Observer .
Television: One government operated station. Additional: Premium channel offering CNN, BBC World, Deutsche Welle and movie channels.
Radio: Government operated staions broadcasting in English and German as well as in various domestic languages.
BBC World Service and Voice of America frequencies: From time to time these change.
BBC:
MHz 17.88 15.42 6.190 3.255
Voice of America:
MHz 17.60 15.30 9.555 6.015
