Palapye
Palapye is a growing town in Botswana, situated about halfway between Francistown and Gaborone. Over the years its position has made it a convenient stopover on one of Southern Africa's principal north–south rail and road routes.
- Type: Town with 26,000 residents
- Description: place in Central District, Botswana
- Also known as: “Palapaye Road”, “Palapye Road”, and “Palatswe”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Palapye Airport.
Palapye Airport
Aerodrome
Palapye Airport is an airstrip serving Palapye, a city in the Central District of Botswana. The runway is on the southeast side of the town. Palapye Airport was built in 1919 with a landing ground measuring 600 by 600 yards.
Palapye
- Categories: city or town, city, and locality
- Location: Central District, Botswana, Southern Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-22.5369° or 22° 32′ 13″ south
Longitude
27.1235° or 27° 7′ 25″ east
Population
26,000
Elevation
926 metres (3,038 feet)
IATA airport code
QPH
United Nations Location Code
BW PAL
Open location code
5G99F47F+6C
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
Discover Palapye from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Palapye” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Palapye”
- Arabic: “بالابيه”
- Asturian: “Palapye”
- Cebuano: “Palapye”
- Chinese: “帕拉佩”
- Dutch: “Palapye”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بالابيه”
- Finnish: “Palapye”
- French: “Palapye”
- German: “Palapye”
- Greek: “Παλάπιε”
- Italian: “Palapye”
- Japanese: “パラピエ”
- Malagasy: “Palapye”
- Persian: “پالاپی، بوتسوانا”
- Persian: “پالاپی”
- Polish: “Palapye”
- Portuguese: “Palapye”
- Romanian: “Palapye”
- Russian: “Палапье”
- South Azerbaijani: “پالاپی، بوتسوانا”
- Spanish: “Palapye”
- Swahili: “Palapye”
- Swedish: “Palapye”
- Tswana: “Palapye”
- Turkish: “Palapye”
- Ukrainian: “Палап’є”
- Ukrainian: “Палапє”
- Urdu: “پالاپیے”
- Zulu: “Palapye”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Palapye Technical College and Independent Electoral Comission.
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