Namib
The Namib is a coastal desert in Southern Africa. According to the broadest definition, the Namib stretches for more than 2,000 kilometres along the Atlantic coasts of Angola, Namibia, and northwest South Africa, extending southward from the Carunjamba River in Angola, through Namibia and to the Olifants River in Western Cape, South Africa.
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- Type: Desert
- Description: desert in southern Africa
- Also known as: “Desert de Namib”, “Désert de Namib”, “Desert de Namíbia”, “Desert del Namib”, “Deserto da Namíbia”, “Deserto de Moçâmedes”, “Deserto de Mossâmedes”, “Deserto de Namibe”, “Deşertul Namib”, “Desierto de Namib”, “Deżert tan-Namibja”, “Jangwa Namib”, “Moçâmedes Desert”, “Moon Valley”, “Namib basamortua”, “Namib-dezerto”, “Namib-woestijn”, “Namib-Wüste”, “Namiba dezerto”, “Namibas”, “Namibeyðimörkin”, “Namibian aavikko”, “Namibiaöknen”, “Namibiaørkenen”, “Namibijos dykuma”, “Namibijská poušť”, “Namibin aavikko”, “Namibwüste”, “Pustynia Namib”, “Sa mạc Namibia”, “Tinir n Namib”, “Wüste Namib”, “Намибијска пустиња”, “Пустеля Наміб”, “Пустиња Намиб”, “Пустыня Намиб”, “מדבר נמיביה”, “صحراء نامبيا”, “ทะเลทรายนามิเบีย”, “ナミーブ沙漠”, “ナミーブ砂漠”, “ナミブ沙漠”, and “那米比沙漠”
Namib
- Category: landform
- Location: Angola, Central Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-23° or 23° south
Longitude
15° east
Elevation
465 metres (1,526 feet)
Open location code
5F9Q2222+22
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yakut—“Namib” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Namibwoestyn”
- Albanian: “Shkretëtira e Namibisë”
- Arabic: “صحراء ناميب”
- Aragonese: “Desierto de Namibia”
- Aragonese: “Disierto de Namibia”
- Armenian: “Նամիբ անապատ”
- Azerbaijani: “Namib səhrası”
- Basque: “Namib”
- Belarusian: “Наміб”
- Belarusian: “Пустыня Наміб”
- Breton: “Namib”
- Bulgarian: “Намиб”
- Catalan: “Namib”
- Cebuano: “Namib Desert”
- Central Kurdish: “بیابانی نامیب”
- Chinese: “納米比沙漠”
- Chinese: “纳米布沙漠”
- Croatian: “Namib”
- Czech: “Namibská poušť”
- Danish: “Namibørkenen”
- Dutch: “Namibwoestijn”
- Egyptian Arabic: “صحرا ناميب”
- Esperanto: “Namibo”
- Estonian: “Namibi kõrb”
- Finnish: “Namib”
- French: “Désert du Namib”
- Galician: “Deserto do Namib”
- Georgian: “ნამიბის უდაბნო”
- German: “Namib”
- Guarani: “Yvy ojeiko’ỹha Namíve”
- Hebrew: “מדבר נמיב”
- Hindi: “नामीब मरुस्थल”
- Hungarian: “Namib-sivatag”
- Icelandic: “Namíbeyðimörkin”
- Ido: “Dezerto Namib”
- Indonesian: “Gurun Namib”
- Irish: “Fásach Namib”
- Italian: “Deserto del Namib”
- Japanese: “ナミブ砂漠”
- Kabyle: “Aneẓruf n Namib”
- Kannada: “ನಮಿಬ್ ಮರುಭೂಮಿ”
- Kazakh: “Namïb”
- Kazakh: “Намиб”
- Kazakh: “نامىيب”
- Kirghiz: “Намиб”
- Korean: “나미브 사막”
- Kotava: “Namib Letaxo”
- Latin: “Desertum Namibense”
- Latvian: “Namiba tuksnesis”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Deserto Namib”
- Lithuanian: “Namibo dykuma”
- Macedonian: “Намиб”
- Malagasy: “Efitr‘ i Namib”
- Malagasy: “Efitr’ i Namib”
- Malay: “Gurun Namib”
- Malayalam: “നമീബ് മരുഭൂമി”
- Maltese: “Baħar tar-Ramel tan-Namibja”
- Mingrelian: “ნამიბიაშ ტიოზი”
- Mongolian: “Намибийн цөл”
- Nepali: “नामिब”
- Northern Frisian: “Namib”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Namibørkenen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Namibørkenen”
- Norwegian: “Namibørkenen”
- Ossetian: “Намиб”
- Panjabi: “ਨਮੀਬ ਮਾਰੂਥਲ”
- Persian: “بیابان نامیب”
- Polish: “Namib”
- Portuguese: “Deserto do Namibe”
- Quechua: “Namib”
- Romanian: “Deșertul Namib”
- Russian: “Намиб”
- Scots: “Namib Desert”
- Scots: “Namib”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Fàsach Namib”
- Serbian: “Namib”
- Serbian: “Намиб”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Namib”
- Sindhi: “ناميب ريگستان”
- Sinhala: “නමිබ්”
- Slovak: “Namib”
- Slovenian: “Namib”
- Somali: “Lamadegaanka Namib”
- Spanish: “Desierto del Namib”
- Spanish: “Namib”
- Swahili: “Jangwa la Namib”
- Swedish: “Namiböknen”
- Tachelhit: “tanzruft n Namib”
- Tamil: “நமீப் பாலைவனம்”
- Thai: “ทะเลทรายนามิบ”
- Turkish: “Namib Çölü”
- Ukrainian: “Наміб”
- Urdu: “صحرائے نمیب”
- Uzbek: “Namib”
- Vietnamese: “Hoang mạc Namib”
- Vietnamese: “Sa mạc Namib”
- Waray (Philippines): “Disyerto Namib”
- Western Panjabi: “صحرائے نمیب”
- Western Panjabi: “نامب روہی”
- Wu Chinese: “纳米布沙漠”
- Yakut: “Намииб”
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