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Sand dunes and vegetation at Sossusvlei in the Namib desert, Namibia.
The Namib desert extends for 1,200 miles (1,900 km) along the Atlantic coast of Africa. It stretches from Namibe in Angola southward through Namibia to the Olifants River in the Western Cape province of South Africa.1