Namibia map quiz
Explore cities and landmarks of Namibia!
Quizzes in this pack
Namibia: cities, landmarks.
| Cities | 8 questions |
| Landmarks | 8 questions |
Sample questions
- The capital and largest city in central Namibia, set in a highland basin at 1,700 meters elevation, meaning 'windy corner'
- Answer: Windhoek
- Major port city on the Atlantic coast, Namibia's only deep-water harbor, famous for its flamingo lagoon
- Answer: Walvis Bay
- Coastal resort town with German colonial architecture where the Namib Desert meets the Atlantic Ocean
- Answer: Swakopmund
- Northern city on the Okavango River bordering Angola, gateway to the Caprivi Strip and the Kavango region
- Answer: Rundu
- Northern town in the densely populated Oshana region, part of Namibia's most urbanized area outside Windhoek
- Answer: Ongwediva
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Windhoek
Central highlands of Namibia
Windhoek, the capital of Namibia, lies in the highlands in the middle of the country, one of the driest countries in the world. When Namibia was a German colony, the Christ Church was built in 1910, and German is still spoken by some in the city.
- Did you know?
- It lies about 1,650 m above sea level
Swakopmund
Namib coast
Swakopmund was founded in 1892 as the main port of German South West Africa, and its half-timbered and turreted buildings still look like a German seaside town. It lies where the dunes of the Namib Desert meet the cold Atlantic, which wraps the town in fog on many mornings.
- Founded
- 1892
- Known for
- German buildings, sandboarding, the Skeleton Coast nearby
Lüderitz
Southern Atlantic coast
Lüderitz is a small harbour town on the southern coast of Namibia, founded as a German trading post in 1883. Its colourful German houses and the Felsenkirche, a church on a rock, look out over the bay, and Kolmanskop, a diamond town now buried in sand, lies just inland.
- Known for
- German houses, the Felsenkirche, Kolmanskop
Sossusvlei
Namib-Naukluft National Park
Sossusvlei is a clay pan in the Namib Desert surrounded by some of the highest sand dunes in the world, up to about 325 metres. Nearby Deadvlei is a white pan where dead camel thorn trees, perhaps 600 to 900 years old, stand black against the red dunes.
- Height
- Dunes up to about 325 m
Skeleton Coast
North-west coast
The Skeleton Coast is the foggy northern coast of Namibia, where the Namib Desert meets the cold Atlantic. Its name comes from the whale bones and shipwrecks along the shore, and sailors once said that whoever was wrecked here had no way out through the desert.
- Did you know?
- Fog from the cold sea gives the desert plants and beetles much of their water
Kolmanskop
Near Lüderitz
Kolmanskop was a rich diamond town built by Germans in the desert near Lüderitz after diamonds were found here in 1908. It was abandoned by the 1950s, and today sand dunes fill its houses up to the windows.
- Did you know?
- It had one of the first X-ray machines in the southern hemisphere, perhaps to catch diamond smugglers
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