Kgale Hill
Kgale Hill is a hill located in Gaborone, Botswana. Nicknamed "The Sleeping Giant", Kgale Hill reaches a summit elevation of 1,287 metres above sea level. The hill used to be home to a television repeater and is now a tourist destination.Photo: inmyflippiefloppies, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: Hill with an elevation of 1,165 metres
- Description: hill located in Gaborone, Botswana
- Also known as: “Kgale Hills”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gaborone and Mogoditshane.
Gaborone
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Gaborone is the capital of Botswana. It is in the south of the country, near the border to South Africa. Generally it is a clean, safe and functioning city that is spreading ever further outwards into a suburban sprawl that today measures about 15 km from east to west.
Mogoditshane
Town
Photo: Masedi Nonofo, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Mogoditshane is a town located in the Kweneng District of Botswana. Mogoditshane is situated 7 km north of Kgale Hill.
Gabane
Town
Gabane is a village in Kweneng District of Botswana. It is located 15 km west of Gaborone, the capital of Botswana. The population was 10,399 in 2001 census, making it the fourth largest settlement in Kweneng. Gabane is situated 9 km west of Kgale Hill.
Kgale Hill
- Categories: park, mountain, and landform
- Location: South-East District, Botswana, Southern Africa, Africa
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Tswana—“Kgale Hill” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Kgale Hills”
- Czech: “Kgale Hill”
- Dutch: “Kgale Hill”
- Dutch: “Kgale Hills”
- French: “Mont Kgale”
- Hausa: “Tudun Kgale”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kgale”
- Norwegian: “Kgale”
- Persian: “کگاله هیل”
- Polish: “Kgale Hill”
- Spanish: “Cerro Kgale”
- Swedish: “Kgale Hills”
- Tswana: “Tlhojana ya Kgale”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Gaborone Dam and Hilton Garden Inn Gaborone.
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