# Location in Namibia is showing as Angola

**URL:** <https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/location-in-namibia-is-showing-as-angola/20541>\
**Category:** Bug Reports\
**Created:** [February 23, 2021, 1:50am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/location-in-namibia-is-showing-as-angola/20541 "2021-02-23T01:50:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![nyoni-pete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e68b1a/32.png) [@nyoni-pete](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/nyoni-pete)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2021, 1:50am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/location-in-namibia-is-showing-as-angola/20541/1 "2021-02-23T01:50:33Z")

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**Platform** (Android, iOS, Website): website

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**Description of problem** (please provide a set of steps we can use to replicate the issue, and make as many as you need.):

Step 1: N’Kwazi Lodge -17.866S 19.907E is on the south bank of the Cubango River, in Namibia (here the Cubango River is the border between Angola and Namibia) but when I put in these coords and “Pinned” them, the location is showing up as “Calai, Angola”

Step 2: I want these obs to be from Namibia not Angola.

Step 3:

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**Author:** ![marina\_gorbunova](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/marina_gorbunova/32/31454_2.png) [@marina\_gorbunova](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/marina_gorbunova)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2021, 1:52am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/location-in-namibia-is-showing-as-angola/20541/2 "2021-02-23T01:52:13Z")

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See this topic [https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/observations-close-to-border-in-wrong-country-near-iguazu-falls-argentina-vs-brazil/10432/](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/observations-close-to-border-in-wrong-country-near-iguazu-falls-argentina-vs-brazil/10432/)

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**Author:** ![nyoni-pete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e68b1a/32.png) [@nyoni-pete](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/nyoni-pete)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2021, 2:00am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/location-in-namibia-is-showing-as-angola/20541/3 "2021-02-23T02:00:16Z")

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Thanks, that link does explain it and stephen220 must have been in the same area.

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**Author:** ![astra\_the\_dragon](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/astra_the_dragon/32/37251_2.png) [@astra\_the\_dragon](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/astra_the_dragon)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2021, 3:09am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/location-in-namibia-is-showing-as-angola/20541/4 "2021-02-23T03:09:26Z")

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Closed on February 23, 2021, 3:09am UTC