AFRICA

Namibia

One of the emptiest countries on Earth, Namibia hands most of its space to the desert, where the world's tallest dunes glow orange and a ghostly gravel plain meets a foggy Atlantic shore.

WHAT THE FLAG MEANS ◢

A red diagonal band edged in white runs from lower hoist to upper fly, separating a blue upper triangle from a green lower one, with a gold twelve-rayed sun in the upper hoist. Schedule 6 to the constitution blazons the whole flag in proportions - the white bend a third of the width, the red a quarter, the sun a third of the width in diameter, its rays two fifths of its radius issuing from a blue ring - and assigns none of it a meaning. The blue is conventionally read for the sky and ocean, the red for the people and their heroism, the green for the vegetation, the white for peace and unity, and the sun for life and energy.

Namibia FACTS ◢

Capital	Windhoek
Continent	Africa
Population	3,092,816 (2025)
Area	825,615 km²
Population density	4/km²
Currency	Namibian dollar (NAD)
Official language	English
Calling code	+264
Internet TLD	.na
Time zone	UTC+02:00
Drives on the	Left
ISO codes	NA / NAM

DID YOU KNOW? ◢

The Namib Desert, which gives the country its name, is considered one of the oldest deserts on Earth.
It's among the least densely populated countries in the world, with vast stretches of near-empty land.
The dunes at Sossusvlei are among the tallest in the world, some rising over 300 metres.
It was the first country in the world to write environmental protection into its constitution.