Shakawe Airport
Shakawe Airport is an airport serving Shakawe, a village in the North-West District of Botswana. It is the gateway to the northern part of the Okavango Delta and the Linyati area.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Krukrus, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Aerodrome
- Description: airport
- Also known as: “FBSW” and “SWX”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Shakawe and Xakao.
Shakawe
Town
Photo: Parakh Hoon, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.
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 9 km northeast of Shakawe Airport.
Shakawe Airport
- Categories: airport and transportation
- Location: North-West District, Botswana, Southern Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-18.37355° or 18° 22′ 25″ southLongitude
21.83343° or 21° 50′ 0″ eastElevation
1,032 metres (3,386 feet)IATA airport code
SWXICAO airport code
FBSWOpen location code
5GH3JRGM+H9OpenStreetMap ID
way 462517001OpenStreetMap feature
aeroway=aerodrome
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Shakawe Airport” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Shakawe Airport”
- German: “Flugplatz Shakawe”
- Indonesian: “FBSW”
- Indonesian: “SWX”
- Japanese: “シャカウェ空港”
- Malay: “Lapangan Terbang Shakawe”
- Persian: “فرودگاه شکو”
- Polish: “Port lotniczy Shakawe”
- Romanian: “Aeroportul Shakawe”
- Russian: “Шакаве”
- Swedish: “Shakawe Airport”
- Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи шку”
- Welsh: “Maes Awyr Shakawe”
Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Social Worker and Shakawe bus rank.
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