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Namibia (nation) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 22 00 00 S degrees minutes |
Lat: -22.0000 decimal degrees |
| Long: 017 00 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 17.0000 decimal degrees |
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Note: Area was originally inhabited by San Bushmen and Khoikhoi people; Namib desert was barrier to settlement; Portuguese landed in region 1486; wars between native Herreros and Hottentots occurred; annexed by Germany late 19th century; captured in WWI by South Africa; official language is English, though Afrikaans, German, and several indigenous languages are also spoken. |
Names: |
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| Namibia (preferred,C,V,English-P,U,N)
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............ | used by UN since 1966 |
| Namibia (Malagasy)
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| Namibia (Vietnamese)
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| Namibia (Ilocano)
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| Namibia (Indonesian)
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| Namibia (Latin)
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| Namibia (Lingala)
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| Namibia (Danish)
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| Namibia (Norwegian (Nynorsk))
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| Namibia (Finnish)
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| Namibia (Swedish)
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| Namibia (Polish)
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| Namibia (Romanian)
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| Namibia (Spanish-P,U,N)
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| Namibia (Basque)
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| Namibia (Aragonese)
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| Namibia (Asturian)
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| Namibia (Akan)
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| Namibia (Welsh)
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| Namibia (German)
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| Namibia (Low German)
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| Namibia (Albanian)
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| Namibia (Breton)
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| Namibia (Galician)
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| Namibia (Faroese)
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| Namibia (Italian)
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| Namibia (Greenlandic)
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| Namibia (Anglo-Saxon)
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| Namibia (Occitan)
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| Namibia (Norwegian (Bokmål))
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| Namibia (Romansh)
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| Namibia (Malay (macrolanguage))
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| Namibia (Norwegian)
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| Namibia (Pampanga)
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| Namibia (Northern Sami)
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| Namibia (Shona)
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| Namibia (Swahili (generic))
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| Namibia (Ido)
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| Namibia (Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association))
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| Republic of Namibia (C,V,O,English,U,N)
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| Namíbia (C,O,Magyar (Hungarian))
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| Namíbia (Portuguese)
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| Namíbia (Slovak)
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| Namíbia (Catalan)
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| Namibie (C,O,Czech)
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| Namibie (French-P,U,N)
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| Namibie (Arpitan)
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| République de Namibie (C,O,French,U,N)
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| República de Namibia (C,O,Spanish,U,N)
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| Намибия (C,O,Tajik)
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| Намибия (Bulgarian)
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| Намибия (Russian-P,U)
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| Республика Намибия (C,O,Russian,U)
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| 纳米比亚 (C,O,Chinese-P,U)
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| 纳米比亚共和国 (C,O,Chinese,U)
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| ةًنام بِاَ (C,O,Arabic-P,U)
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| جُهور ةًنام بِاَ (C,O,Arabic,U)
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| NAM (C,O,ISO3L)
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| NA (C,O,ISO2L)
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| ISO516 (C,O,ISO3N)
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| WA (C,O,FIPS)
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| Namibian (C,O,English,U,A)
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| נמיביה (C,U,Hebrew )
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| An Namaib (C,U,Irish Gaelic)
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| i-Namibia (C,U,Zulu)
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| Namibhiya (C,U,North Ndebele)
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| Namibi (C,U,Bambara)
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| Namibi (Lingala)
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| Namibi (Albanian)
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| Namibi (Cornish)
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| Namibi (Luba-Katanga)
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| Namibía (C,U,Icelandic)
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| Na-mi-bi-a (Namibia) (C,U,Vietnamese)
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| Namibia nutome (C,U,Ewe)
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| Namibië (C,U,Dutch)
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| Namibië (Afrikaans)
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| Namibien (C,U,Luxembourgish)
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| Namibii (C,U,Fulah)
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| Namibija (C,U,Croatian)
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| Namibija (Bosnian)
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| Namibija (Slovene)
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| Namibija (Lithuanian)
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| Namībija (C,U,Latvian)
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| Namibio (C,U,Esperanto)
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| Namibiya (C,U,Rundi)
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| Namibiya (Ganda (Ugandan language))
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| Namibiya (Azerbaijani)
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| Namibiya (Hausa)
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| Namibiyän (C,U,Volapük)
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| Namibja (C,U,Maltese)
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| Namibùii (C,U,Sangho)
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| Namibya (C,U,Tagalog)
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| Namibya (Turkish)
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| Namîbya (C,U,Kurdish)
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| Namiibia (C,U,Estonian)
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| Namiibiya (C,U,Somali)
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| Namimbia (C,U,Kikuyu)
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| Namipia (C,U,Tonga (Tonga Islands))
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| Nam-mi-bi-a (C,U,Vietnamese)
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| Orílẹ́ède Namibia (C,U,Yoruba)
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| नामिबिया (C,U,Marathi)
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| नामिबिया (Nepali)
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| ประเทศนามิเบีย (C,U,Thai)
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| Намибија (C,U,Serbian)
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| Намибија (Macedonian)
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| Намібія (C,U,Ukrainian)
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| Намібія (Belarusian)
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| Ναμίμπια (C,U,Greek)
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| נאמיביה (C,U,Hebrew )
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| नमीबिया (C,U,Marathi)
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| नमीबिया (Sanskrit)
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| नमीबिया (Kashmiri)
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| ນາມິເບຍ (C,U,Lao)
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| ناميبيا (C,U,Arabic)
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| نامىبىيە (C,U,Uyghur)
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| ናሚቢያ (C,U,Tigrinya)
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| ናሚቢያ (Amharic)
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| ნამიბია (C,U,Georgian)
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| ណាមីប៊ី (C,U,Khmer)
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| Նամիբիա (C,U,Armenian)
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| นามิเบีย (C,U,Thai)
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| 나미비아 (C,U,Korean)
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| نامیبیا (C,U,Urdu)
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| نامیبیا (Kurdish)
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| نامیبیا (Persian-Farsi)
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| ナミビア (C,U,Japanese)
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| ナミビア共和国 (C,U,Japanese)
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| নামিবিয়া (C,U,Bengali)
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| నమీబియా (C,U,Telugu)
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| நமீபியா (C,U,Tamil)
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| නැමීබියාව (C,U,Sinhala)
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| നമീബിയ (C,U,Malayalam)
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| નામિબિયા (C,U,Gujarati)
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| နမ်မီးဘီးယား (C,U,Burmese)
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| ན་མི་བི་ཡ། (C,U,Tibetan)
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| ನಮೀಬಿಯಾ (C,U,Kannada)
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| ନାମ୍ବିଆ (C,U,Odia)
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| नामीबिया (C,U,Hindi)
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| Deutsch-Südwestafrika (H,V)
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| German South West Africa (H,V)
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| German Southwest Africa (H,V)
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| South West Africa (H,V)
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| South-West Africa (H,V)
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| Suidwes-Afrika (H,V)
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............ | used by South Africa since 1919 |
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Additional Parents: |
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Place Types: |
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| nation (preferred, C) |
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independent since March 21, 1990 |
| primary political unit (C) |
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| independent sovereign nation (C) |
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1919-present, UN rejected 1966 |
| former territory/colony/dependent state (C) |
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| dependency (H) |
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of South Africa, until 1990 |
| territory (H) |
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| controlled region (H) |
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German, 1885-early 20th cen. |
| independent political entity (C) |
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Related geographic places: |
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| capital is .... |
Windhoek .......... (inhabited place) |
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(World, Africa, Namibia, Khomas) [1094042] |
| member of .... |
Commonwealth of Nations .......... (association) |
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(World) [7005615] |
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joined association in 1990 |
| member of .... |
United Nations .......... (organization) |
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(World) [7029605] |
| ................ |
joined organization in 1990 |
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