Learning English with Geography | Germany Traded Zanzibar for This Thin Strip of Land

How did a thin strip of Namibia end up reaching a river, and what was it traded for? Germany got it in 1890, but the deal behind it is stranger than the map suggests. Skip the Paper Boat and Penny the Compass explore the Caprivi Strip, a long, narrow piece of northeastern Namibia that runs out to the Zambezi River. They look at the land before any border, the 1890 treaty that drew the strip, the river route that never worked, and what the strip looks like today. Along the way you'll learn words for shapes, borders and history, all in plain English. Words and phrases in this video: strip, panhandle, remote, colony, treaty, annex, cede, navigable, landlocked, corridor Sources: Britannica Editors, "Caprivi Strip", Encyclopaedia Britannica Wikipedia, "Caprivi Strip" News24, "Namibia renames Caprivi Strip", 9 August 2013 #English #Geography #Namibia