Namaqualand is a dry area along South Africa's western coast. It is best known for the display of about 350 varieties of wildflowers that bloom each spring.
Few people live in the region.
It is named after the Namaqua tribe of the Khoikhoin people. The region stretches from the Swartland district in the south to the Orange River in the north. Namaqualand has an extreme climate. There is little rainfall because the cold Benguela current of the Atlantic Ocean washes the coastline. Between 1895 and 1898, no rain fell at all.