Damaraland
Sign in to savethumb|300px|Allocation of land to Bantustans according to the Odendaal Plan. Damaraland is central west.
Key facts
- Country.conventional_long_name
- Damaraland
- Country.common_name
- Damaraland
- Country.status
- BantustanSecond-tier authority (1980–1989)
- Country.p1
- South West Africa
- Country.flag_p1
- Flag of South Africa 1928-1994.svg
- Country.s1
- Namibia
- Country.flag_s1
- Flag of Namibia.svg
- Country.image_flag
- Flag of Damaraland.svg
- Country.image_map
- LocationBantoustanDamaraland.PNG
- Country.image_map_caption
- Location of Damaraland (green) within South West Africa (grey)
- Country.image_map2
- MapBantoustanDamaraland.PNG
- Country.image_map2_caption
- Map of the Bantustan
- Country.common_languages
- KhoekhoeHereroEnglishAfrikaansGerman
- Country.event_start
- Self-government
- Country.year_start
- 1980
- Country.event_end
- Re-integrated into Namibia
- Country.year_end
- 1989
- Country.date_end
- May
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Administrative history
- Bantustan
- Representative authority (1980–1989)
- Transition to independence (1989–1990)
- Leadership
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|300px|Allocation of land to Bantustans according to the Odendaal Plan. Damaraland is central west.
Damaraland was a name given to the north-central part of South West Africa, which later became Namibia, inhabited by the Damaras. It was bordered roughly by Ovamboland in the north, the Namib Desert in the west, the Kalahari Desert in the east, and the Windhoek region in the south.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Damaraland” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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