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Namibia's Climate: (continued from previous page)

Frost may occur over large areas of the country in the early morning hours, often just before sunrise, but in general winter days are are clear, cloudless, and sunny.

Overall Namibia falls into the summer rainfall area, with limited showers occurring occasionally from October and building up to peak in January and February.

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Namibia's Unique Landscape:

Perennial rivers are found only on the country's borders: the Orange River in the south, on the South African border, the Kunene River in the north-west, on the border to Angola, as well as the Okavango, Kwando, Chobe, and Zambezi Rivers in the north-east, on the borders shared with Botswana, Zambia, and Zimbabwe respectively.

The country's interior is criss-crossed with the sandy beds of ephemeral rivers, which only

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come into flood after heavy rainfalls in their catchment areas.

The Namibian landscape varies from vast expanses of desert and sand dunes to rugged rock formations in the south and west, to the starkly contrasting savannah and woodlands of the central regions and the lush forested scenery of the north-east.

The Brandberg on the southern Kunene Region is Namibia's highest mountain, with its peak reaching 2579 meters. Others of notable height are the Moltkeblick Peak (2479 m) of the Auas Mountains near Windhoek, the Gamsberg Plateau (2347 m) and Erongo Mountains (2319 m) in the centre, and the Karas ...

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Central Namibian Coast

... Mountains (2202 m) in the south. Numerous other mountains, some oddly shaped, reach heights of just under 2000 meters, of which the Brukkaros with its steep black slopes is the best known landmark in the south, between the towns of Mariental and Keetmanshoop.

Further south, the Fish River Canyon is one of Africa's natural wonders. The 161 km long and 27 km wide ravine with a maximum depth of 550 m is surrounded by high, forbidding cliffs, and is gashed into the plateau with startling abruptness. The awesome grandeur of the canyon is surpassed only by the Grand Canyon in the USA.

Population:

According to the 2001 Population Census, Namibia has got 1,830,330 inhabitants, a growth rate of 2.6%, and a relatively youthful population, with 39% under 15 years and only 7%

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Despite rapid urbanisation, Namibia is still mainly a rural society, with only about 33% of the population living in urban areas. Regional population densities vary enormously, with almost two-thirds of the population living in four of the northern regions and less than one tenth in the south.

Namibian Ethnic Cultures:

Namibians are a heterogeneous society of many cultures. The oldest inhabitants, the San, are great storytellers and love music, mimicry, and dance. The Nama of the south also have a great oral tradition of poetry and prose, and a natural talent for 

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music. Eight Owambo sub-tribes live in Namibia, the largest being the Kwanyama. The most striking feature of the traditional Owambo social system is that of matrilineal descent. The Herero are a cattle-breeding people. Their women still wear Victorian-style dresses adapted from the wives of the Rhenish missionaries, who worked in the country during a brief German colonial era around 1900. The women of the Himba tribe, of Herero descent, rub their bodies with a mixture of red ochre and fat, and wear hairstyles that correspond to their age and  social status.

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