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| Land Boudaries Total :
| 3,936 km .
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| Geographic Coordinates :
| desert; hot, dry; rainfall sparse and erratic .
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| Area Total :
| 825,418 sq km .
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| Area Land :
| 825,418 sq km .
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| Area Water :
| 0 sq km .
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| Area Comparative :
| slightly more than half the size of Alaska .
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| Coast Line :
| 1,572 km .
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| Railways Total :
| 2,382 km .
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| Highways Total :
| 66,467 km .
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| Waterways :
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| Ports and Harbors :
| Luderitz, Walvis Bay .
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Keetmanshoop ("Keetman's hope" in Afrikaans) is the traffic junction and the economic centre for the whole south of Namibia. Before the arrival of Europeans, the area was known as Nu-gouses, which means "Black Marsh" and indicated the presence of a spring in the area. In 1860 the Rhenish Mission Society founded a mission there to spread their faith to the local Nama. The first missionary, Johann Georg Schr?der, arrived in Keetmanshoop on April 14, 1866, which is now marked as the founding date of Keetmanshoop. The mission station was named after the German trader Johann Keetman who supported the mission financially, but never actually visited the place himself. They found that even though some Africans converted to Christianity, taking away their tribal beliefs was another matter.
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