Namaqualand
Sign in to savethumb|right|A waterfall situated a few kilometres north of [[Nieuwoudtville on the road to Loeriesfontein, in the Northern Cape (Namaqualand region)]] thumb|Namaqualand, outside of the flower season thumb|right|The spring flowers in Namaqualand
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- Tourism
- Modern settlements in the river area
- People
- Conservation
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thumb|right|A waterfall situated a few kilometres north of [[Nieuwoudtville on the road to Loeriesfontein, in the Northern Cape (Namaqualand region)]] thumb|Namaqualand, outside of the flower season thumb|right|The spring flowers in Namaqualand
Namaqualand (Khoikhoi: "Nama-kwa" meaning Nama Khoi people's land) is an arid region of Namibia and South Africa, extending along the west coast over and covering a total area of . It is divided by the lower course of the Orange River into two portions – Little Namaqualand to the south and Great Namaqualand to the north.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Namaqualand” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.