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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Desert
- Description: desert in southern Africa
- Also known as: “Deserto de Moçâmedes”, “Deserto de Mossâmedes”, “Deserto de Namibe”, “Moçâmedes Desert”, and “Namib Desert”
Namib
- Category: landform
- Location: Angola, Central Africa, Africa
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yakut—“Namib” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Namibwoestyn”
- Albanian: “Shkretëtira e Namibisë”
- Arabic: “صحراء نامبيا”
- Arabic: “صحراء ناميب”
- Aragonese: “Desierto de Namibia”
- Aragonese: “Disierto de Namibia”
- Armenian: “Նամիբ անապատ”
- Azerbaijani: “Namib səhrası”
- Basque: “Namib basamortua”
- Basque: “Namib”
- Belarusian: “Наміб”
- Belarusian: “Пустыня Наміб”
- Breton: “Namib”
- Bulgarian: “Намиб”
- Catalan: “Desert de Namib”
- Catalan: “Desert de Namíbia”
- Catalan: “Desert del Namib”
- Catalan: “Namib”
- Cebuano: “Namib Desert”
- Central Kurdish: “بیابانی نامیب”
- Chinese: “納米比沙漠”
- Chinese: “纳米布沙漠”
- Chinese: “那米比沙漠”
- Croatian: “Namib”
- Czech: “Namib”
- Czech: “Namíbijská poušť”
- Czech: “Namibská poušť”
- Danish: “Namibørkenen”
- Dutch: “Namib-woestijn”
- Dutch: “Namib”
- Dutch: “Namibwoestijn”
- Egyptian Arabic: “صحرا ناميب”
- Esperanto: “Namib-dezerto”
- Esperanto: “Namib”
- Esperanto: “Namiba dezerto”
- Esperanto: “Namibo”
- Estonian: “Namibi kõrb”
- Finnish: “Namib”
- Finnish: “Namibian aavikko”
- Finnish: “Namibin aavikko”
- French: “Desert de Namib”
- French: “Désert de Namib”
- French: “Désert du Namib”
- French: “Namib”
- Galician: “Deserto do Namib”
- Galician: “Desierto de Namibia”
- Galician: “Namib”
- Georgian: “ნამიბის უდაბნო”
- German: “Namib-Wüste”
- German: “Namib”
- German: “Namibwüste”
- German: “Wüste Namib”
- Guarani: “Yvy ojeiko’ỹha Namíve”
- Hebrew: “מדבר נמיב”
- Hebrew: “מדבר נמיביה”
- Hindi: “नामीब मरुस्थल”
- Hungarian: “Namib-sivatag”
- Icelandic: “Namibeyðimörkin”
- Icelandic: “Namíbeyðimörkin”
- Ido: “Dezerto Namib”
- Indonesian: “Gurun Namib”
- Indonesian: “Namib”
- Irish: “Fásach Namib”
- Italian: “Deserto del Namib”
- Italian: “Deserto Namib”
- Italian: “Moon Valley”
- Italian: “Namib”
- Japanese: “ナミーブ沙漠”
- Japanese: “ナミーブ砂漠”
- Japanese: “ナミブ沙漠”
- 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: “Namibas”
- Lithuanian: “Namibijos dykuma”
- Lithuanian: “Namibo dykuma”
- Macedonian: “Намиб”
- Malagasy: “Efitr‘ i Namib”
- Malagasy: “Efitr’ i Namib”
- Malay: “Gurun Namib”
- Malayalam: “Namib Desert”
- Malayalam: “നമീബ് മരുഭൂമി”
- Maltese: “Baħar tar-Ramel tan-Namibja”
- Maltese: “Deżert tan-Namibja”
- Maltese: “Namib”
- Mingrelian: “ნამიბიაშ ტიოზი”
- Mongolian: “Намибийн цөл”
- Nepali: “नामिब”
- Northern Frisian: “Namib”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Namibiaørkenen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Namibørkenen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Namibørkenen”
- Norwegian: “Namibørkenen”
- Ossetian: “Намиб”
- Panjabi: “ਨਮੀਬ ਮਾਰੂਥਲ”
- Persian: “بیابان نامیب”
- Polish: “Namib”
- Polish: “Pustynia Namib”
- Portuguese: “Deserto da Namíbia”
- Portuguese: “Deserto do Namib”
- Portuguese: “Deserto do Namibe”
- Portuguese: “Namib”
- Quechua: “Namib”
- Romanian: “Deşertul Namib”
- Romanian: “Deșertul Namib”
- Romanian: “Namib”
- Russian: “Намиб”
- Russian: “Пустыня Намиб”
- Scots: “Namib Desert”
- Scots: “Namib”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Fàsach Namib”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Namib Desert”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Namib”
- Serbian: “Namib”
- Serbian: “Намиб”
- Serbian: “Намибијска пустиња”
- Serbian: “Пустиња Намиб”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Namib”
- Sindhi: “ناميب ريگستان”
- Sinhala: “නමිබ්”
- Slovak: “Namib”
- Slovenian: “Namib”
- Somali: “Lamadegaanka Namib”
- Spanish: “Desierto de Namib”
- Spanish: “Desierto de Namibia”
- Spanish: “Desierto del Namib”
- Spanish: “Namib”
- Swahili: “Jangwa la Namib”
- Swahili: “Jangwa Namib”
- Swahili: “Namib”
- Swedish: “Namib”
- Swedish: “Namibiaöknen”
- Swedish: “Namiböknen”
- Tachelhit: “tanzruft n Namib”
- Tachelhit: “Tinir n Namib”
- Tamil: “நமீப் பாலைவனம்”
- Thai: “ทะเลทรายนามิบ”
- Thai: “ทะเลทรายนามิเบีย”
- Turkish: “Namib Çölü”
- Ukrainian: “Наміб”
- Ukrainian: “Пустеля Наміб”
- Urdu: “صحرائے نمیب”
- Uzbek: “Namib”
- Vietnamese: “Hoang mạc Namib”
- Vietnamese: “Namib”
- Vietnamese: “Sa mạc Namib”
- Vietnamese: “Sa mạc Namibia”
- 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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