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The following is a list of ecoregions in Namibia, according to the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF).

Terrestrial ecoregions

by major habitat type

Tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands

• Angolan mopane woodlands
• Kalahari Acacia-Baikiaea woodlands
• Zambezian Baikiaea woodlands
• Zambezian and mopane woodlands

Flooded grasslands and savannas

• Etosha Pan halophytics
• Zambezian flooded grasslands

Deserts and xeric shrublands

• Kalahari xeric savanna
• Kaokoveld desert
• Nama Karoo
• Namib desert
• Namibian savanna woodlands
• Succulent Karoo

Freshwater ecoregions

by bioregion

Zambezi

• Etosha
• Kalahari
• Karstveld Sink Holes
• Namib Coastal
• Zambezi
  • Upper Zambezi Floodplains
• Okavango Floodplains

Marine ecoregions

• Namaqua
• Namib

References

• Burgess, Neil, Jennifer D’Amico Hales, Emma Underwood (2004). Terrestrial Ecoregions of Africa and Madagascar: A Conservation Assessment. Island Press, Washington DC.
• Spalding, Mark D., Helen E. Fox, Gerald R. Allen, Nick Davidson et al. "Marine Ecoregions of the World: A Bioregionalization of Coastal and Shelf Areas". Bioscience Vol. 57 No. 7, July/August 2007, pp. 573-583.
• Thieme, Michelle L. (2005). Freshwater Ecoregions of Africa and Madagascar: A Conservation Assessment. Island Press, Washington DC.

• Ecoregions of Namibia
• Lists of ecoregions by country
• Namibia geography-related lists