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.
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 1,594 in 2022 census. Xakao is situated 8 km northeast of Shakawe.
Kauxwhi
Village
Kauxwhi is a village in Ngamiland, in the northwestern corner of Botswana. In 2022, it had a population of 1888 people in the village, and 2223 people when associated localities are included. 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″ south
Longitude
21.83985° or 21° 50′ 24″ east
Population
10,600
Elevation
1,000 metres (3,281 feet)
IATA airport code
SWX
United Nations Location Code
BW SWX
Open location code
5GH3JRPQ+MW
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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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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