Provincial Capital Selection

In other words, Walvis Bay Port and Swakopmund Port were currently nothing more than fishing ports, providing services to passing vessels on the side, while Swakopmund Port also doubled as a military harbor.

"The country's attention to Southwest Africa was probably on the same level as the Congo rainforest, Serengeti Nature Reserve, and Limpopo River Nature Reserve in East Africa. We were getting the same treatment as animals on the grasslands," Val joked.

Yasold said, "Hehe, I don't know about the other places, but Limpopo River Nature Reserve was not on the same level as us. Limpopo River Nature Reserve lay within the jurisdictions of Hechingen Province and Southern Frontier Province.

"Do you think a place named Hechingen could be somewhere simple? And the capital of Hechingen Province was Otto City, a name taken from the previous Prince of Hechingen, His Majesty the King's father.

"And then there was Southern Frontier Province. Its capital, New Hamburg City, was changing with each passing day. From the looks of it, they were measuring themselves against Dar es Salaam city and Mombasa city."

Val retorted, "That is not what I meant. Limpopo River Nature Reserve was not the same thing as Hechingen Province and Southern Frontier Province. Though they overlapped, they were on the same administrative level, just as railways were controlled by the railway system rather than by individual provinces."

"Even so, Limpopo River Nature Reserve was not something Southwest Africa could even dream of comparing itself to. It was a bona fide provincial-level administrative unit. Southwest Africa was still not even a province; it could only be considered a region. Besides, Limpopo River Nature Reserve's military alone outnumbered the entire population of Southwest Africa. What could we possibly use to compare with it?" Yasold reminded him.

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