Factsheet:
Namibia
Capital: Windhoek,
largest city, Walvis Bay, main port
Area: 824,268 square km
Languages: English (official),
Afrikaans, German, Ju/’hoan, Khoekhoegowab (Nama/Damara), Oshidonga, Oshikwanyama,
Otjiherero, Rugciriku, Rukwangali, Setswana, Silozi, Thimbukushu
Currency: Namibian dollar (N$),
on a par with South African Rand
Total indigenous spermatophyte taxa:
3,961
Total endemic spermatophyte taxa:
602
Total indigenous moss and fern taxa:
161
Total RDL plants: 1,152
Focal RDL institutions: NBRI,
which includes WIND and NPGRC
Number of Protected Areas: 21
Parks and Nature Reserves, one Transfrontier Park (Botswana-Namibia-South
Africa), and several other formally protected areas.
Population: 1,701,330 Growth Rate: 3.1% Density: 2.3 people/square km
Phytogeography: The Zambezian
regional centre of endemism is in the northeast, the Kalahari–Highveld Transition
Zone, and the Karoo–Namib regional centre of endemism in the southwest.
Flora: Dry woodland in the northeast,
becoming drier towards the south and the coast, through bushland and wooded
grassland to desert. The escarpment forms a transition between the coastal
desert and the savannas of the interior.
Sources: Anonymous 2000, Craven
1999, Giess 1971, Maggs 1998, Maggs, Kolberg & Hines 1994, Maho 1998,
White 1983 by WIND
