Southern Africa
Botswana
Central District

Serowe

Serowe is an urban village in 's Central District. A trade and commercial centre, it is Botswana's third largest village. Serowe has played an important role in Botswana's history, as capital for the Bamangwato people in the early 20th century and as birthplace of several of Botswana's presidents.
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  • Type: City with 55,700 residents
  • Description: city in Botswana
  • Also known as: “Sjapi”

Serowe

Latitude
-22.3978° or 22° 23′ 52″ south
Longitude
26.7033° or 26° 42′ 12″ east
Population
55,700
Elevation
1,147 metres (3,763 feet)
United Nations Location Code
BW SER
Open location code
5G98JP23+V8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 287641418
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
933088
Wiki­data ID
Q855634
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Serowe” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Serowe”
  • Afrikaans: “Sjapi”
  • Arabic: “سيرووي”
  • Armenian: “Սերովե”
  • Asturian: “Serowe”
  • Basque: “Serowe”
  • Belarusian: “Серовэ”
  • Belarusian: “Сэровэ”
  • Bengali: “সেরুয়ে”
  • Bulgarian: “Серове”
  • Catalan: “Serowe”
  • Cebuano: “Serowe (kapital sa distrito)”
  • Cebuano: “Serowe”
  • Chinese: “塞罗韦”
  • Chinese: “塞羅韋”
  • Croatian: “Serowe”
  • Croatian: “Sjapi”
  • Czech: “Serowe”
  • Danish: “Serowe”
  • Dutch: “Serowe”
  • Dutch: “Sjapi”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سيرووى”
  • Finnish: “Serowe”
  • Finnish: “Sjapi”
  • French: “Serowe”
  • French: “Sjapi”
  • Galician: “Serowe”
  • German: “Serowe”
  • Greek: “Σερόουε”
  • Gujarati: “સેરોવ”
  • Hebrew: “סרובה”
  • Hindi: “सरोवी”
  • Indonesian: “Serowe”
  • Indonesian: “Sjapi”
  • Italian: “Serowe”
  • Italian: “Sjapi”
  • Japanese: “セロウェ”
  • Kannada: “ಸೆರೊವೆ”
  • Korean: “세로웨”
  • Latvian: “Serove”
  • Latvian: “Sjapi”
  • Lithuanian: “Serovė”
  • Lithuanian: “Sjapi”
  • Malagasy: “Serowe”
  • Malagasy: “Sjapi”
  • Malay: “Serowe”
  • Malay: “Sjapi”
  • Marathi: “सेर्व्ह”
  • Northern Frisian: “Serowe”
  • Northern Frisian: “Sjapi”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Serowe”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sjapi”
  • Persian: “سرووه، بوتسوانا”
  • Polish: “Serowe”
  • Polish: “Sjapi”
  • Portuguese: “Serowe”
  • Portuguese: “Sjapi”
  • Romanian: “Serowe”
  • Romanian: “Sjapi”
  • Russian: “Серова”
  • Russian: “Серове”
  • Shona: “Serowe”
  • Shona: “Sjapi”
  • Silesian: “Serowe”
  • Silesian: “Sjapi”
  • Sinhala: “Sjapi”
  • Sinhala: “සේරොවේ”
  • Slovenian: “Serowe”
  • Slovenian: “Sjapi”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سرووه، بوتسوانا”
  • Spanish: “Serowe”
  • Swahili: “Serowe”
  • Swahili: “Sjapi”
  • Swedish: “Serowe”
  • Swedish: “Sjapi”
  • Tamil: “செரோவெ”
  • Telugu: “సరోవి”
  • Thai: “เซโลฟ”
  • Tswana: “Serowe”
  • Tswana: “Sjapi”
  • Turkish: “Serove”
  • Ukrainian: “Серове”
  • Urdu: “سیرووی”
  • Vietnamese: “Serowe”
  • Welsh: “Serowe”
  • Zulu: “Serowe”
  • Zulu: “Sjapi”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Serowe”. Photo: Joachim Huber, CC BY-SA 2.0.