In other words, the current Walvis Bay and Swakopmund are only fishing ports, with incidental services for passing ships, while the port of Swakopmund works part-time as a military port.

"The country's attention to Southwest Africa is probably at the same level in East Africa as the Congo rainforest, the Serengeti Nature Reserve, and the Limpopo River Nature Reserve, and we are treated the same as the animals on the grassland." Val teased.

"Hehe, I don't know about other places, the Limpopo Nature Reserve is not on the same level as us, the Limpopo Nature Reserve is under the jurisdiction of Hehingen Province and Southern Frontier Province.

Do you think the meaning of the name Heingen can be simple? Moreover, the capital of the province of Hexingen is called the city of Otto, which is named after the previous Prince of Hexingen, the father of His Majesty the King.

There is also the Southern Frontier Province, the capital of the city of New Hamburg, which is developing rapidly, and people are looking at the same situation as Dar es Salaam and Mombasa. ”

Val retorted: "I am not the same thing as you, the Limpopo River Nature Reserve is not the same as the Hehingen Province and the Southern Frontier Province, although they are intertwined, they are at the same level, just like the railway is under the control of the railway system, not the provinces. ”

"The Limpopo River Nature Reserve is not something that we can touch in Southwest Africa, they are a genuine provincial-level administrative unit, and our Southwest Africa is not a province until now, it can only be counted as a region, and the number of troops in the Limpopo River Nature Reserve alone is more than the population of the entire Southwest Africa, what do you compare it with?" Yasolde reminded.

It is also embarrassing to say that Southwest Africa has not become a nominal official member of East Africa until now, and according to the precedent of East Africa, the situation in Southwest Africa should belong to the area of military control, which was the case when Matabele Province was first occupied by East Africa, but it was soon designated as a province by East Africa.

"This is also normal, the central government can approve and build the Mangjing Highway is already taking care of Southwest Africa, after all, in terms of the economic situation and natural environment of the entire Southwest Africa, even I will not pay much attention to it, let alone the road, I think it is enough to maintain maritime transportation, and the construction of such a long highway is not cost-effective at all in my opinion." Val said.

Before Southwest Africa officially became a province, excluding military personnel, Yasold and Val, as well as the mayor of Orangemond (the mouth of the Orange River), should be the top three high-ranking officials in Southwest Africa, as for Lüderitz is not an administrative region, it is completely a military stronghold of the military in Lüderitz Bay.

"So you said that if Southwest Africa is divided into provinces in the future, the provincial capital should be between our two cities!" Yasolde suddenly realized the problem.

"It's very likely to be Walvis Bay Harbor City, after all, your economy and population are a little stronger."

"Not necessarily, the provincial capital selection will not be based on these two factors as key indicators, and the economy of many provincial capitals may not be stronger than other cities in the province."

"It can't be Orangemond anyway." Val concluded.

"That's not necessarily, such a large part of Southwest Africa can be divided into a few more provinces, although Orangemond is remote, but if Southwest Africa is divided into multiple provinces, then Orangemond has a great chance."

The predictions of the two senior city officials about the future of Southwest Africa can only be said to be completely different from Ernst's ideas.

Ernst is not very interested in South-West Africa, because there is construction everywhere in East Africa now, and the conditions and importance of other regions in East Africa are much stronger than those in South-West Africa.

But Ernst could not ignore the vast mass of more than a million square kilometers of land in southwest Africa.

In a broad sense, there are actually three provinces in southwest Africa, one is the province of Letania in the Okavango River basin, the province of Lorraine in the Kalahari basin with the Okavango River delta as the center, and the former British Bechuana as the core of the new Baden.

All three provinces belong to the desert and grassland transition zone, and the vast remaining tract of land is the undivided South-West Africa, which is most of Namibia, Botswana, and parts of South Africa.

Ernst had no intention of breaking up the remaining more than a million square kilometers of Southwest Africa, which was positioned much like the Western Regions of the Far Eastern Empire.

However, it is far less important than the Western Regions Province, which is located in Central Asia and is very important to the defense of the Far Eastern Empire, while there is almost no threat on land in Southwest Africa, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the border area between Britain and Portugal to the north and south is also a harsh environment.

In addition, the economic conditions of the Western Regions Province are not comparable to those of Southwest Africa, especially the agricultural conditions, the oasis agriculture of the Western Regions Province is very developed, and there are a large number of high-quality agricultural areas around the Tarim River in the Tianshan Mountains or the Ili River Valley, which is very similar to the Somali region of East Africa, which can conserve a large number of people.

In southwest Africa, there are no major rivers, deserts and barren land, and there are no high mountains like the Tien Shan, so there is not much meltwater in the high mountains.

Southwest Africa in East Africa is larger than Namibia in the previous era, so a large part of the Kalahari Desert also belongs to Southwest Africa, and the area of the Kalahari Desert exceeds 600,000 square kilometers.

Namibia's long coastline is basically covered by the Namib Desert, and if you follow the development path of the previous life, the role of these coastlines will not be fully utilized.

The main factors limiting the development of its coastline are infrastructure and the country's economic strength, and if East Africa is connected by rail between the inland and the Atlantic Ocean in the future, the economic level of Southwest Africa is estimated to surpass that of Namibia in the 20th century.

On the whole, the potential of Southwest Africa is not ranked in East Africa, and there is no need to split it due to climatic reasons.

As for the choice of provincial capital, Ernst actually had an idea for a long time, and he would not choose the coastal area, but the highlands of central southwest Africa, such as the capital of Namibia in the previous life, Windhoek was a good choice.

So the idea of Yasolde and Val was doomed to fail, and as for why the Central Plateau, which is not developed at all, was chosen for the simple reason that the Central Plateau has a larger population volume there.

In the case of Walvis Bay Harbor, water is a big problem, and its food is still dependent on sea transportation so far, although Swakopmund has the Swakop River, but the Swakop River is still a seasonal river.

In the previous life, the combined population of these two cities barely exceeded 100,000, and the population could not go up, so the development potential of these two cities was very limited, which was also an important reason why the Central Railway did not choose to go to sea here.

Therefore, the future provincial capital of Southwest Africa will definitely be built in the central plateau with certain agricultural potential, and the central plateau is an important mineral distribution area in southwest Africa, and the potential is greater than that of coastal ports.

In addition, the three central provinces of East Africa are developing very rapidly, and they can effectively radiate the central belt of Southwest Africa in the future, which further weakens the port transportation advantages of the coastal areas of Southwest Africa.

Because the development of mineral resources in the central region is nothing more than two directions, one is export, the other is East Africa's own use, export, the future can also choose the railway through the eastern port, East Africa itself use, not to mention, now the industry has been deployed in the three central provinces.

Of course, the role of ports along the Atlantic Ocean such as the Walvis Bay Port is still there, after all, it is considered a few more options, which is conducive to the security of East African commodity exports, and at the same time has a certain significance for national defense security.

However, its population capacity is a big problem, which also means that it is difficult to develop the coastal ports of Southwest Africa into integrated ports, and it can only focus on the development of a few pillar industries, which is the main reason why the provincial capital does not consider the coast.

(End of chapter)