Territorial sea: 12 nm
_#_Disputes: short section of boundary with Botswana is indefinite; quadripoint with Botswana, Zambia, and Zimbabwe is in disagreement; claim by Namibia to Walvis Bay and 12 offshore islands administered by South Africa
_#_Climate: desert; hot, dry; rainfall sparse and erratic
_#_Terrain: mostly high plateau; Namib Desert along coast; Kalahari Desert in east
_#_Natural resources: diamonds, copper, uranium, gold, lead, tin, zinc, salt, vanadium, natural gas, fish; suspected deposits of oil, natural gas, coal, and iron ore
_#_Land use: arable land 1%; permanent crops NEGL%; meadows and pastures 64%; forest and woodland 22%; other 13%; includes irrigated NEGL%
_#_Environment: inhospitable with very limited natural water resources; desertification
_#_Note: Walvis Bay area is an exclave of South Africa in Namibia
_*People #_Population: 1,520,504 (July 1991), growth rate 3.6% (1991)
_#_Birth rate: 45 births/1,000 population (1991)