Map of Namibia

Namibia is located in Africa. Its territory lies in the southern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 22.0° S, 17.0° E. It shares land borders with 4 countries — Angola, Botswana, South Africa and Zambia — and also has its own coastline. Within Africa, a continent of 54 countries bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean, Namibia is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Namibia shares land frontiers with the following 4 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Namibia covers about 825,615 km² (318,772 sq mi). That makes it the 33rd-largest country in the world by area and the 15th-largest in Africa, larger by area than 39 of the continent’s 54 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 3,022,401, the 137th-largest in the world and the 41st-largest in Africa, accounting for about 0.2% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Namibia has an average population density of about 4 people per km². Among the 54 countries of Africa it stands 41st by population and 15th by area.

The seat of government is Windhoek, and the official currency is the Namibian dollar (NAD, $), and the main official languages are Afrikaans, German, English, Herero, Khoekhoe, Kwangali, Lozi, Ndonga and Tswana. Traffic drives on the left, and the country observes the time zone UTC+01:00.

Namibia carries the ISO country codes NA and NAM, dials on the international calling code +264 and uses the .na internet domain.

Namibia shares its land borders with 4 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are South Africa (capital Pretoria, about 63,100,945 people), Angola (capital Luanda, about 36,170,961 people), Zambia (capital Lusaka, about 19,693,423 people) and Botswana (capital Gaborone, about 2,359,609 people).

By area, Namibia is larger than 2 of these neighbours and smaller than 2 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 22.0° S, 17.0° E and opens at zoom level 5, framing Namibia within Africa. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Windhoek. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Namibia lies about 2,442 km from the equator, in the southern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

Namibia keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+01:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +01:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

Namibia recognises more than one official currency: Namibian dollar (NAD, $) and South African rand (ZAR, R).

The official languages are Afrikaans, German, English, Herero, Khoekhoe, Kwangali, Lozi, Ndonga and Tswana, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the left-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +264 and websites commonly use the .na internet domain.

In short, Namibia is a coastal country in Africa, sharing land borders with 4 countries. Its capital is Windhoek. Namibia has a population of about 3,022,401 and covers around 825,615 km² (318,772 sq mi), ranking it 137th in the world by population and 33rd by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Namibia.

The flag of Namibia features a white-edged red diagonal band that extends from the lower hoist-side corner to the upper fly-side corner of the field. Above and beneath this band are a blue and green triangle respectively. A gold sun with twelve triangular rays is situated on the hoist side of the upper triangle.

The flag of Namibia is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.