Geography of Namibia

Raw data

Climate: desert, heat and dryness; precipitations are rare and irregular.

Relief: high plateau, desert plain along the coast; Kalahari Desert in the east.

Exploitation of the ground:

  • arable lands: 0,99%
  • permanent crops: 0%
  • permanent pastures: 46%
  • forests: 22%

irrigated Grounds: 70 km

Natural resources: Diamond S, Copper, Uranium, Gold, Lead, tin, Lithium, Cadmium, Zinc, salt, Vanadium, Natural gas, hydraulic power, Poisson; presumption of layers of Oil, coal and Ore of Iron.

environmental Problems: soft Turning into a desert, very limited water resources.

Natural disasters: Famine S.

International treaties on the environment:

  • left with: biodiversity, climate changes, turning into a desert, species in danger, right of the sea, protection of the layer of ozone, wetlands.

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