Namibia is top in the world for many reasons... but there are most probably many more:

• Most popular tourist destinations world wide: Namibia, rank 18 (Condé Nast Traveller, 2003)

• Fastest 200 m sprinter: Frankie Fredericks (Olympic Games, 1996)

• Most beautiful woman in the universe: Michelle McLean (Miss Universe, 1992)

• Most beautiful face in Africa: Benvinda Mundenge (Face Of Africa, 1999)

• Oldest desert in the world: The Namib

• Highest dunes in the world: Sossusvlei (up to  400 m)

• Second largest canyon in the world: Fish River Canyon

• Largest meteorite ever fallen on earth: Hoba-Meteorit

• Unique #1: Hartmann's Mountain Zebra

• Unique #2: Welwitschia mirabilis

• Unique #3: Desert Elephants, Desert Rhinos and Desert Lions

• Unique #4: Largest Cheetah population on the planet

• Large mines: Rössing, second largest uranium mine in the world

• Large national parks: Namib-Naukluft Park, the number four world wide

• Purest diamonds: Sperrgebiet, Namibia

• Largest underground lakle: Drachenhauchloch

• Largest concentration of petrified wood: Versteinerter Wald (Petrified Forest)

• Most famous rock painting in Africa: White Lady

• Largest seal colony in Africa: Long Island with up to 400,000 seals

• Diamond mining: No. 6 in the world

• Hominoiden: oldest ancient find of a pre homo sapiens (12 million years old)

• Largest Elephant in the planet: "Desert Elephant" 5.7 tons (Damaraland, 1978)