Shakawe
Shakawe is a village located in the northwest corner of Botswana at the beginning of the Okavango Delta, close to Namibia and Angola. Shakawe is awakening from its former status as a sleepy little outpost on the Okavango.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Parakh Hoon, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Xakao and Kauxwhi.
Xakao
Village
Xakao is a village in North-West District of Botswana. It is located close to the Namibian border, where the river Okavango enters Botswana. The population was 1,049 in 2001 census. Xakao is situated 8 km northeast of Shakawe.
Kauxwhi
Village
Kauxwi is a village in North-West District of Botswana. According to the village elders, the village was formally established in 1983. It is located close to the Namibian border and has both primary and secondary schools. Kauxwhi is situated 10 km north of Shakawe.
Shakawe
- Type: Town with 10,600 residents
- Description: city
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: North-West District, Botswana, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-18.36328° or 18° 21′ 48″ southLongitude
21.83985° or 21° 50′ 24″ eastPopulation
10,600Elevation
1,000 metres (3,281 feet)IATA airport code
SWXUnited Nations Location Code
BW SWXOpen location code
5GH3JRPQ+MWOpenStreetMap ID
node 2467673154OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
933077Wikidata ID
Q170663
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Zulu—“Shakawe” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Shakawe”
- Cebuano: “Shakawe”
- Chinese: “沙卡韋”
- Chinese: “沙卡韦”
- Dutch: “Shakawe”
- Finnish: “Shakawe”
- French: “Shakawe”
- Fulah: “Shakawe”
- German: “Shakawe”
- Greek: “Σακάουε”
- Italian: “Shakawe”
- Japanese: “シャカウェ”
- Malagasy: “Shakawe”
- Persian: “شاکاو، بوتسوانا”
- Polish: “Shakawe”
- Portuguese: “Shakawe”
- Russian: “Шакаве”
- Spanish: “Shakawe”
- Swahili: “Shakawe”
- Swedish: “Shakawe”
- Tswana: “Shakawe”
- Turkish: “Shakawe”
- Zulu: “Shakawe”
- “Shakawe”
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