Damaraland was a name given to the north-central part of South West Africa, which later became Namibia, inhabited by the Damaras.

In the 1970s the name Damaraland was chosen for a Bantustan, intended by the apartheid-era government to be a self-governing homeland for the Damara people.

Following the Turnhalle Constitutional Conference the system of Bantustans was replaced in 1980 by Representative Authorities which functioned on the basis of ethnicity only and were no longer based on geographically defined areas.

As second-tier authorities, forming an intermediate tier between central and local government, the representative authorities had responsibility for land tenure, agriculture, education up to primary level, teachers' training, health services, and social welfare and pensions and their Legislative Assemblies had the ability to pass legislation known as Ordinances.

[1] Damaraland, like other homelands in South West Africa, was abolished in May 1989 at the start of the transition to independence.