Q 01/05

What is the capital and largest city of Namibia?

A) Windhoek

B) Swakopmund

C) Walvis Bay

D) Lüderitz

Answer · why

A) Windhoek

It sits about 1,700 m up on the Khomas Highland in the centre of the country.

Q 02/05

Namibia is named after which desert?

A) The Kalahari

B) The Sahara

C) The Karoo

D) The Namib

Answer · why

D) The Namib

The Khoi word means 'vast place'; the country was named by Mburumba Kerina.

Q 03/05

The Namib is often described as what?

A) The largest desert in Africa

B) The hottest place on Earth

C) The oldest desert in the world

D) The only desert on a coast

Answer · why

C) The oldest desert in the world

It has been arid for roughly 55 to 80 million years, rivalled only by the Atacama.

Q 04/05

Namibia is the driest country in which region?

A) The Middle East

B) Sub-Saharan Africa

C) Southern Europe

D) Central Asia

Answer · why

B) Sub-Saharan Africa

Average rainfall is about 350 mm a year, dropping to almost nothing on the Skeleton Coast.

Q 05/05

Which ocean lies to the west of Namibia?

A) The Indian

B) The Atlantic

C) The Southern

D) The Pacific

Answer · why

B) The Atlantic

The cold Benguela Current offshore creates the fog that keeps the desert alive.