Caprivi Strip

American

[kuh-pree-vee] / kəˈpri vi /

noun

a strip of land in NE Namibia that extends E between Botswana on the S and Angola and Zambia on the N to the Zambezi River. 280 miles (450 km) long, 20–65 miles (32–105 km) wide.

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We passed by the Caprivi Strip, a panhandle in Namibia, crossing back and forth into Namibian waters as we cruised by troops of baboons and seemingly endless water lilies.

From New York Times • Aug. 22, 2017

Some 850 Bushmen are organized into a separate battalion of the South West Africa Territory Force headquartered at Omega, a base camp in Namibia's northeastern Caprivi Strip.

From Time Magazine Archive

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