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Botswana

Botswana is a landlocked country in , completely surrounded by four countries: , , , and . Botswana is a true gem among African nations, boasting a remarkable level of wealth and tranquility that few other countries on the continent can match.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Gaborone and Okavango Delta.

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is the capital of Botswana. It is in the south of the country, near the border to . 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.

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The or Okavango Grassland is a vast inland delta in Botswana formed where the reaches a tectonic trough at an elevation of 930–1,000 m in the central part of the endorheic basin of the .

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is a city in the east of Botswana, near the border with . In our division of Botswana into regions, it is in .

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Okavango-Chobe and Southeast.

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is a region in the north of Botswana.

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Botswana is a region of that country. It is home to the capital, , and most of the country's population.

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is a region in the west of Botswana. It includes the gem of the in the country's southwest.

Botswana

  • Type: Country with 1,640,000 residents
  • Description: sovereign state in Southern Africa
  • Also known as: “Bechuanaland Protectorate”, “Betschuanaland Protektorat”, “Betsjoeanaland”, “Betsjoeanaland Protektoraat”, “BOT”, “British Protectorate of Bechuanaland”, “Britse Protektoraat van Betsjoeanaland”, “bw”, “Lefatse la Botswana”, “Lefatshe la Botswana”, “Northern Bechuanaland”, and “Republic of Botswana”
  • Languages: English and Tswana
  • Neighbors: , , , and
  • Categories: sovereign state, landlocked country, and locality
  • Location: ,
  • View on Open­Street­Map
Latitude of center
-21.9° or 21° 54′ south
Longitude of center
24.15° or 24° 9′ east
Population
1,640,000
Area
600,370 km² (231,804 miles²)
Elevation
963 metres (3,159 feet)
Capital
Currency
Pula (BWP)
Phone code
.bw
Internet domain
267
Open­Street­Map ID
node 424313751
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­country
Geo­Names ID
933860
Wiki­data ID
Q963
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Botswana” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Ботсвана”
  • Achinese: “Botswana”
  • Afrikaans: “Botswana”
  • Akan: “Bɔtswana”
  • Albanian: “Bocuana”
  • Albanian: “Bocvana”
  • Albanian: “Botsvana”
  • Albanian: “Botsvanë”
  • Amharic: “ቦትስዋና”
  • Amis: “Botswana”
  • Angika: “बोत्स्वाना”
  • Arabic: “بتسوانا”
  • Arabic: “بوتسوانا”
  • Aragonese: “Botsuana”
  • Aragonese: “Botswana”
  • Armenian: “Բոթսվանա”
  • Armenian: “Բոտսվանա”
  • Arpitan: “Botsouana”
  • Assamese: “ব’টচোৱানা”
  • Assamese: “বৎচোৱানা”
  • Asturian: “Botsuana”
  • Atayal: “Botswana”
  • Aymara: “Butswana”
  • Azerbaijani: “Botsvana”
  • Balinese: “Botswana”
  • Bambara: “Botswana”
  • Bambara: “Bɔtisiwana”
  • Banjar: “Botswana”
  • Bashkir: “Ботсвана”
  • Basque: “Botswana”
  • Bavarian: “Botswana”
  • Belarusian: “Батсвана”
  • Bengali: “বতসোয়ানা”
  • Bengali: “বোত্‍সওয়ানা”
  • Betawi: “Boswana”
  • Bhojpuri: “बोत्सवाना”
  • Bishnupriya: “বোৎসোয়ানা”
  • Bislama: “Botsuana”
  • Bosnian: “Bocvana”
  • Breton: “Botswana”
  • Bulgarian: “Ботсвана”
  • Bulgarian: “Ботсуана”
  • Burmese: “ဘော့စ်ဝါနာ”
  • Burmese: “ဘော့ဆွာနာ”
  • Burmese: “ဘော့ဆွာနာနိုင်ငံ”
  • Catalan: “Botswana”
  • Catalan: “República de Botswana”
  • Cebuano: “Botswana”
  • Central Bikol: “Botswana”
  • Central Kanuri: “Botswana”
  • Central Kurdish: “بۆتسوانا”
  • Chavacano: “Botswana”
  • Chechen: “Ботсвана”
  • Cherokee: “ᏆᏣᏩᎾ”
  • Cheyenne: “Botswana”
  • Chinese: “Bócíwǎnà”
  • Chinese: “Botswana”
  • Chinese: “博国”
  • Chinese: “博茨瓦納”
  • Chinese: “博茨瓦納共和國”
  • Chinese: “博茨瓦纳 / 波札那”
  • Chinese: “博茨瓦纳”
  • Chinese: “博茨瓦纳共和国”
  • Chinese: “波札那”
  • Chinese: “波札那共和國”
  • Chinese: “波茨華拿”
  • Chuvash: “Ботсвана”
  • Cornish: “Botswana”
  • Corsican: “Botazuana”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Botsvana”
  • Croatian: “Bocvana”
  • Czech: “Botswana”
  • Dagbani: “Botswana”
  • Danish: “Botswana”
  • Dhivehi: “ބޮޓުސްވާނާ”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Botswana”
  • Dotyali: “बोत्सवाना”
  • Dutch: “Botswana”
  • Dutch: “BW”
  • Dutch: “BWA”
  • Dutch: “Republiek Botswana”
  • Dzongkha: “བྷོཙ་ཝ་ན”
  • Eastern Mari: “Ботсванеа”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بوتسوانا”
  • Esperanto: “Bocvano”
  • Esperanto: “BW”
  • Esperanto: “Respubliko Bocvano”
  • Estonian: “Botswana Vabariik”
  • Estonian: “Botswana”
  • Ewe: “Botswana nutome”
  • Ewe: “Botswana”
  • Extremaduran: “Botsuana”
  • Farefare: “Botswana”
  • Faroese: “Botsvana”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Botswana”
  • Finnish: “Botswana”
  • Finnish: “Botswanan tasavalta”
  • French: “Botswana”
  • French: “BW”
  • French: “la République du Botswana”
  • Fulah: “Boosuwaana”
  • Fulah: “Botswaana”
  • Fulah: “Botswana”
  • Gagauz: “Botsvana”
  • Galician: “Botsuana”
  • Galician: “Botswana”
  • Galician: “República de Botsuana”
  • Ganda: “Botiswana”
  • Ganda: “Botswana”
  • Georgian: “ბოტსვანა”
  • German: “Botsuana”
  • German: “Botswana”
  • German: “Republik Botsuana”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “BOT”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Botswana”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Republic of Botswana”
  • Gilaki: “بۊتسۊانا”
  • Greek: “Μποτσουάνα”
  • Guarani: “Votusuana”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Botswana”
  • Gujarati: “બોત્સવાના”
  • Gujarati: “બોત્સ્વાના”
  • Gun: “Botswana”
  • Haitian: “Botswana”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Botswana”
  • Hausa: “Baswana”
  • Hausa: “Botswana”
  • Hawaiian: “Botuana”
  • Hebrew: “בוטסואנה”
  • Hebrew: “בוטסוואנה”
  • Hebrew: “בוטסוונה”
  • Hebrew: “בוצוואנה”
  • Hindi: “बोत्सवाना”
  • Hindi: “बोत्स्वाना”
  • Hungarian: “Becsuánaföld”
  • Hungarian: “Botswana”
  • Hungarian: “Botswanai Köztársaság”
  • Iban: “Botswana”
  • Icelandic: “Botsvana”
  • Ido: “Botswana”
  • Igbo: “Botswana”
  • Iloko: “Botswana”
  • Inari Sami: “Botswana täsiväldi”
  • Inari Sami: “Botswana”
  • Indonesian: “Botswana”
  • Interlingua: “Botswana”
  • Interlingue: “Botswana”
  • Inupiaq: “Paasuana”
  • Irish: “an Bhotsuáin”
  • Irish: “An Bhotsuáin”
  • Italian: “Botswana”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Botswaana”
  • Japanese: “ボツワナ”
  • Japanese: “ボツワナ共和国”
  • Javanese: “Botswana”
  • Kabiyè: “Pɔcɩwaanaa”
  • Kabuverdianu: “Botsuana”
  • Kabyle: “Butswana”
  • Kalaallisut: “Botswana”
  • Kalmyk: “Ботсвамудин Орн”
  • Kannada: “ಬೊಟ್ಸ್‌ವಾನಾ”
  • Kannada: “ಬೋಟ್ಸ್ವಾನ”
  • Kannada: “ಬೋಟ್ಸ್‌ವಾನಾ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Botsvana”
  • Kashmiri: “بوتَسوانا”
  • Kashmiri: “बोत्सवाना”
  • Kazakh: “Ботсвана”
  • Khmer: “បុតស្វាណា”
  • Kikuyu: “Botswana”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Botswana”
  • Kirghiz: “Ботсвана”
  • Kölsch: “Botswana”
  • Kongo: “Botswana”
  • Korean: “보츠와나”
  • Kotava: “Botswana”
  • Kurdish: “Botswana”
  • Kurdish: “بۆتسوانا”
  • Ladin: “Botsuana”
  • Ladin: “Botswana”
  • Ladino: “Botswana”
  • Lao: “ບອດສະວານາ”
  • Lao: “ບອັດສະວານາ”
  • Lao: “ປະເທດບົດສະວານາ”
  • Latgalian: “Botsvana”
  • Latin: “Botsuana”
  • Latin: “Botswana”
  • Latvian: “Botsvana”
  • Latvian: “Botsvāna”
  • Lezghian: “Ботсва́на Респу́блика”
  • Lezghian: “Ботсвана”
  • Ligurian: “Botswana”
  • Ligurian: “Bòtswana”
  • Limburgan: “Botswana”
  • Lingala: “Botswana”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Botsuana”
  • Literary Chinese: “波札那”
  • Lithuanian: “Botsvana”
  • Livvi: “Botsvana”
  • Lojban: “botsuanas”
  • Lombard: “Botswana”
  • Low German: “Botswana”
  • Low German: “Republik Botswana”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Botsuana”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Mbotswana”
  • Lule Sami: “Botsvádna”
  • Lule Sami: “Botsvána republihkka”
  • Lule Sami: “Botsvána republijkka”
  • Lule Sami: “Botsvánna”
  • Lule Sami: “republihkka Botsvádna”
  • Lule Sami: “republihkka Botsvánna”
  • Lule Sami: “republijkka Botsvádna”
  • Lule Sami: “republijkka Botsvánna”
  • Luxembourgish: “Botsuana”
  • Luxembourgish: “Botswana”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Botswana”
  • Macedonian: “Боцвана”
  • Malagasy: “Botsoana”
  • Malagasy: “Bôtsoana”
  • Malay: “Botswana”
  • Malayalam: “ബോട്സ്വാന”
  • Maltese: “Botswana”
  • Maltese: “il-Botswana”
  • Maltese: “Repubblika tal-Botswana”
  • Manipuri: “ꯕꯣꯇ꯭ꯁ꯭ꯋꯥꯅꯥ”
  • Manx: “Botswana”
  • Manx: “y Votswaan”
  • Manx: “Yn Votswaan”
  • Maori: “Poriwana”
  • Marathi: “बोट्सवाना”
  • Marathi: “बोत्स्वाना”
  • Mazanderani: “بوتسوانا”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Botswana”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Botswana”
  • Minangkabau: “Botswana”
  • Mingrelian: “ბოტსვანა”
  • Mirandese: “Zabotsuana”
  • Moksha: “Ботсвана”
  • Mongolian: “Ботсван”
  • Mongolian: “Ботсвана”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “بوتسوانا”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “بوطسوانا”
  • N'Ko: “ߓߐߕߑߛߎߥߣߊ߫”
  • Nauru: “Botwana”
  • Navajo: “Halchíítah Naakaii Łizhiní Bikéyah”
  • Navajo: “Tswana Dineʼé Bikéyah”
  • Nepali: “बोट्स्वाना”
  • Nepali: “बोत्स्वाना”
  • Newari: “बोत्स्वाना”
  • Nigerian Pidgin: “Botswana”
  • North Ndebele: “Botswana”
  • Northern Frisian: “Botsuana”
  • Northern Frisian: “Botswana”
  • Northern Luri: “بوتسوانا”
  • Northern Sami: “Botswana dásseváldi”
  • Northern Sami: “Botswana”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Botswana”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Republikken Botswana”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Botswana”
  • Norwegian: “Botswana”
  • Novial: “Botswana”
  • Obolo: “Botsuwana”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Botswana”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Botswana”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Botsƿana”
  • Oriya: “ବୋଟସ୍ବାନ୍”
  • Oriya: “ବୋଟସ୍ୱାନା”
  • Oriya: “ବୋସଚୱାନା”
  • Oromo: “Bootiswaanaa”
  • Ossetian: “Ботсванæ”
  • Pali: “बोत्सवाना”
  • Pampanga: “Botswana”
  • Panjabi: “ਬੋਤਸਵਾਨਾ”
  • Papiamento: “Botswana”
  • Pedi: “Botswana”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Botsuana”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Botswana”
  • Persian: “بوتسوانا”
  • Piemontese: “Botswana”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Botswana”
  • Polish: “Botswana”
  • Portuguese: “BOT”
  • Portuguese: “Botsuana”
  • Portuguese: “Botswana”
  • Portuguese: “bw”
  • Portuguese: “Lefatshe la Botswana”
  • Portuguese: “República de Botsuana”
  • Portuguese: “República de Botswana”
  • Portuguese: “República do Botswana”
  • Pushto: “بوتسوانا”
  • Pushto: “بوتسوانه”
  • Quechua: “Botsuana”
  • Quechua: “Butswana”
  • Quechua: “Putsuwana”
  • Romanian: “Botswana”
  • Romansh: “Botswana”
  • Rundi: “Botswana”
  • Russia Buriat: “Ботсвана”
  • Russian: “Ботсвана”
  • Russian: “Республика Ботсвана”
  • Rusyn: “Ботсвана”
  • Sakizaya: “Botswana”
  • Samogitian: “Botsvana”
  • Sango: “Botswana”
  • Sanskrit: “बोत्सवाना”
  • Santali: “ᱵᱳᱛᱥᱳᱣᱟᱱᱟ”
  • Sardinian: “Botswana”
  • Sardinian: “Botzuana”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Botsuana”
  • Scots: “Botswana”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Botsuana”
  • Serbian: “Botsvana”
  • Serbian: “Боцвана”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bocvana”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းပွတ်ႉသဝႃႇၼႃႇ”
  • Shona: “Botswana”
  • Shona: “Vutswana”
  • Sicilian: “Botsuana”
  • Silesian: “Botswana”
  • Sindhi: “بوٽسوانا”
  • Sinhala: “බොට්ස්වානා”
  • Sinhala: “බොට්ස්වානාව”
  • Sinhala: “බොස්ට්වානා”
  • Skolt Sami: “Botswana tääʹssväʹldd”
  • Skolt Sami: “Botswana”
  • Slovak: “Botswana”
  • Slovak: “Botswanská republika”
  • Slovenian: “Bocvana”
  • Slovenian: “BOT”
  • Slovenian: “bw”
  • Slovenian: “Lefatshe la Botswana”
  • Slovenian: “Republika Bocvana”
  • Somali: “Botswana”
  • Somali: “Botuswaana”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بوتسوانا”
  • South Ndebele: “Botswana”
  • Southern Sotho: “Botswana”
  • Spanish: “Botsuana”
  • Spanish: “Republica de Botsuana”
  • Spanish: “República de Botsuana”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴱⵓⵜⵙⵡⴰⵏⴰ”
  • Sundanese: “Botswana”
  • Swahili: “Botswana”
  • Swati: “ÉButjwána”
  • Swedish: “Botswana”
  • Swedish: “Republiken Botswana”
  • Swiss German: “Botsuana”
  • Tachelhit: “Botswana”
  • Tachelhit: “Butswana”
  • Tagalog: “Botswana”
  • Tajik: “Ботсвана”
  • Talysh: “Botsvanə”
  • Tamil: “போட்சுவானா”
  • Tamil: “போட்ஸ்வானா”
  • Taroko: “Botswana”
  • Tatar: “Ботсвана”
  • Telugu: “బోట్స్వానా”
  • Telugu: “బోత్సువానా”
  • Thai: “บอตสวานา”
  • Thai: “ประเทศบอตสวานา”
  • Thai: “สาธารณรัฐบอตสวานา”
  • Tibetan: “བྷོ་ཙི་ཝ་ན།”
  • Tibetan: “བོཙ་ཝ་ན།”
  • Tigrinya: “ቦትስዋና”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Potisiuana”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Botswana”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Botsuana”
  • Tsonga: “Botswana”
  • Tswana: “Botswana”
  • Tumbuka: “Botswana”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “بوتسوانا”
  • Turkish: “Botsvana Cumhuriyeti”
  • Turkish: “Botsvana”
  • Turkish: “Botswana”
  • Turkmen: “Botswana”
  • Twi: “Botswana”
  • Tyap: “Botswana”
  • Tyap: “Ri̱pobi̱lik Botswana”
  • Udmurt: “Ботсвана”
  • Uighur: “بوتسۋانا”
  • Ukrainian: “Ботсвана”
  • Ukrainian: “Республіка Ботсвана”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Botswana”
  • Urdu: “بوتسوانا”
  • Urdu: “بوٹسوانا”
  • Uzbek: “Botsvana”
  • Venda: “Vhu-Tswana”
  • Venetian: “Botsuana”
  • Venetian: “Botswana”
  • Veps: “Botsvan”
  • Vietnamese: “Bốt-xoa-na (Botswana)”
  • Vietnamese: “Bốt-xoa-na”
  • Vietnamese: “Botswana”
  • Vietnamese: “bw”
  • Vietnamese: “Cộng hoà Botswana”
  • Vietnamese: “Cộng hòa Botswana”
  • Vlax Romani: “Botswana”
  • Volapük: “Zvanän”
  • Võro: “Botswana”
  • Walloon: “Boswana”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Botswana”
  • Welsh: “Botswana”
  • Western Armenian: “Պոթսուանա”
  • Western Balochi: “بوتسوانا”
  • Western Frisian: “Botswana”
  • Western Panjabi: “بوٹسوانا”
  • Wolof: “Botswana”
  • Wu Chinese: “博茨瓦纳”
  • Xhosa: “IBotswana”
  • Yakut: “Ботсвана”
  • Yakut: “Ботсуана”
  • Yiddish: “באצוואנע”
  • Yiddish: “באצוואַנע”
  • Yoruba: “Bọ̀tìsúwánà”
  • Yoruba: “Bòtswánà”
  • Yoruba: “Orílẹ́ède Bọ̀tìsúwánà”
  • Yue Chinese: “波茨華拿”
  • Zeeuws: “Botswana”
  • Zhuang: “Botswana”
  • Zulu: “i-Botswana”
  • Zulu: “iBotswana”
  • Zulu: “IButswana”
  • “BOT”
  • “Botsvana”
  • “Botswana”
  • “Botswanah”
  • “Botswanah Axkayotl”
  • “BW”
  • “BWA”
  • “ma Posuwana”
  • “बोत्सवाना”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Botswana”. Photo: Joachim Huber, CC BY-SA 2.0.