"In Namibia the Dhimba people live in the Opuwo District of the Kunene Region and in the northwestern corner of the Omusati Region. The Kunene Region comprises what is often still called 'Kaokoland.'"

"The present abode of the Himba covers an extensive area of some 30 000 sq. kilometers in [former] South West Afrca [currently Namibia] and Angola jointly. It stretches for 200 km westwards from Ruacana Falls to just below the escarpment, where it is bounded by the arid semi-desert regions of the Namib. The greater part of the Himba territory falls within the borders of South West Africa [currently Namibia], being about 20 000 sq. km in extent. It is roughly bounded by the Hoarusib River in the south, Owambo in the east, the Namib to the west, with the Kunene River as its northern boundary... Almost 7 000 Himba are living here, with probably only half that figure in the adjacent parts of Angola - an average population density therefore of close to one per three sq. km."

"Dhimba speakers... reside in the north-western comer of Owamboland, especially in Otjovanatjie and Etoto and partly in the north-eastern comer of Kaokoland (Ehombo) but also in scaterred communities in urban quarters of Opuwo, Okangwati and Ondangwa."

"Los territorios himba actuales viven repartidas entre territorio namibio y territorio angoleño. Los himba de Namibia se encuentran al Noroeste del país, en una zona denominada Kaokoland, entre los paralelos 17° y 18° y los meridianos 12° a 14°… Los himba se encuentran en la mitad más septentrional del Kaokoland, al Norte de Ohopoho, ocupando sólo unos 20.000 km2. Los himba que viven en la rivera Norte del Kunene, en el Suroeste de Angola por debajo del paralelo 16°, se encuentran en los lugares de pastos menos inhóspitos entre los ríos Curoca y Kunene, entre los meridianos 12° y 15°, ocupando una franja de unos 200 km… Entre Iona y Curoca se puede calcular una superficie total aproximada de algo más de 10.000 km2."