{"id":342523,"date":"2025-07-09T16:26:34","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T10:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=342523"},"modified":"2025-07-09T16:26:34","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T10:56:34","slug":"namibia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/namibia\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News:<\/strong> Recently, Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited <strong data-start=\"152\" data-end=\"163\">Namibia<\/strong>, marking the <strong data-start=\"177\" data-end=\"259\">first visit by an Indian Prime Minister to the country in nearly three decades<\/strong>. This visit concludes his five-nation outreach to the Global South and seeks to strengthen cooperation.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>About Namibia<\/strong><\/h2>\n<figure style=\"width: 284px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.worldatlas.com\/r\/w1200\/upload\/66\/0a\/e4\/na-01.jpg?resize=284%2C314&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\" Namibia \" width=\"284\" height=\"314\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Atlas del Mundo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>It is located in <strong>southwestern Africa.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Bordering states:<\/strong> It borders Angola, Zambia, Botswana, South Africa, and the Atlantic Ocean.<\/li>\n<li>The Orange River marks the southern border with South Africa, while the Kunene and Okavango Rivers partly form the northern border with Angola.<\/li>\n<li>It is the second least densely populated country in the world after Mongolia.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Capital:<\/strong> Windhoek<\/li>\n<li>It gained <strong>independence from South Africa<\/strong> on <strong>March 21, 1990<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Major geographical zones:<\/strong>Namib Desert (west), Central Plateau, Kalahari (east)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Major rivers: Kunene, Okavango, Zambezi, Orange<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Climate:<\/strong>Arid to semi-arid, low rainfall, high temperature variations<\/li>\n<li><strong>Major physical features:\u00a0<\/strong> Etosha Pan and Fish River Canyon<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ethnic groups:<\/strong>Ovambo (majority), Kavango, Herero, Nama, Damara<\/li>\n<li><strong>Most spoken languages:<\/strong> English, Ovambo, Khoekhoe, and Afrikaans.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Economy: Mining<\/strong> (diamonds, uranium, base metals) is the largest GDP contributor. <strong>Agriculture<\/strong> employs 35% but contributes only 11% to GDP. <strong>Fishing<\/strong> and <strong>tourism<\/strong> are key sectors<\/li>\n<li><strong>Major conservation areas: <\/strong>Etosha National Park, Skeleton Coast, and Namib-Naukluft Park<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Recently, Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Namibia, marking the first visit by an Indian Prime Minister to the country in nearly three decades. This visit concludes his five-nation outreach to the Global South and seeks to strengthen cooperation. About Namibia It is located in southwestern Africa. Bordering states: It borders Angola, Zambia, Botswana, South&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/namibia\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Namibia<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10366,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,164,12039,11211],"tags":[11872,10500],"class_list":["post-342523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","category-knolls","category-places-in-news","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}