Francistown

Francistown is a city in the east of , near the border with . In our division of Botswana into regions, it is in .
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  • Type: City with 100,000 residents
  • Description: city in northern Botswana
  • Also known as: “Ftown”
Photo: Elziki, Public domain.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Francistown Airport and Obed Itani Chilume Stadium.

Aerodrome
Phillip Gaonwe Matante International Airport, also known as Francistown International Airport, serves Francistown, . The public airport, which caters to both commercial and national military's aircraft, is on the western edge of the city.

Stadium
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is a multi-use in Francistown, . It is used mostly for football matches and usually hosts the home matches of Francistown-based TAFIC F.C.

Francistown

Latitude
-21.1664° or 21° 9′ 59″ south
Longitude
27.5025° or 27° 30′ 9″ east
Population
100,000
Elevation
989 metres (3,245 feet)
IATA airport code
FRW
United Nations Location Code
BW FRW
Open location code
5GC9RGM3+F2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 240504014
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
933778
Wiki­data ID
Q165422
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Francistown” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Dorp”
  • Afrikaans: “Francistown”
  • Akan: “Francistown”
  • Amharic: “ፍራንሲስታውን”
  • Arabic: “فرانسيس”
  • Arabic: “فرانسيستاون”
  • Armenian: “Ֆրանսիսթաուն”
  • Asturian: “Francistown”
  • Azerbaijani: “Frensistaun”
  • Basque: “Francistown”
  • Belarusian: “Франсістаўн”
  • Bengali: “ফ্রাঞ্চিসটাউন”
  • Bengali: “ফ্রান্সিসটাউন”
  • Breton: “Francistown”
  • Bulgarian: “Франсистаун”
  • Catalan: “Francistown”
  • Cebuano: “Francistown”
  • Chinese: “弗朗西斯敦”
  • Chinese: “镇”
  • Croatian: “Francistown”
  • Czech: “Francistown”
  • Danish: “Francistown”
  • Dutch: “Francistown”
  • Esperanto: “Francistown”
  • Estonian: “Francistown”
  • Finnish: “Francistown”
  • French: “Francistown”
  • Georgian: “ფრანსისთაუნი”
  • German: “Francistown”
  • Greek: “Φράνσισταουν”
  • Gujarati: “ફ્રાન્સિસટાઉન”
  • Hausa: “Francistown”
  • Hebrew: “פרנסיסטאון”
  • Hindi: “फ्रांसिसटाउन”
  • Ido: “Francistown”
  • Indonesian: “Francistown”
  • Italian: “Francistown”
  • Japanese: “フランシスタウン”
  • Javanese: “Francistown”
  • Kannada: “ಫ್ರಾನ್ಸಿಸ್ಟೌನ್”
  • Kazakh: “Францистаун”
  • Kirghiz: “Францистаун”
  • Korean: “프랜시스타운”
  • Latvian: “Frānsistauna”
  • Latvian: “Frensistauna”
  • Lithuanian: “Frensistaunas”
  • Macedonian: “Франсистаун”
  • Malay: “Francistown”
  • Marathi: “फ्रॅन्सिसटाउन”
  • Northern Frisian: “Francistown”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Francistown”
  • Norwegian: “Francistown”
  • Oromo: “Francistown”
  • Panjabi: “ਫ੍ਰਾਂਸਿਸਟਾਊਨ”
  • Persian: “فرانسیستوون، بوتسوانا”
  • Polish: “Francistown”
  • Portuguese: “Francistown”
  • Pushto: “فرانسستاون”
  • Romanian: “Francistown”
  • Russian: “Франсистаун”
  • Serbian: “Франсистаун”
  • Shona: “Francistown”
  • Shona: “town”
  • Sinhala: “ෆ්‍රැන්සිස් ටවුන්”
  • Sinhala: “ෆ්‍රැන්සිස්ටවුන්”
  • Somali: “Francistown”
  • South Azerbaijani: “فرانسیستوون، بوتسوانا”
  • Spanish: “Francistown”
  • Swahili: “Francistown”
  • Swedish: “Francistown”
  • Tajik: “Францистаун”
  • Tamil: “பிரான்சிஸ்நகரம்”
  • Tamil: “பிரான்சீஸ்நகரம்”
  • Tatar: “Францистаун”
  • Telugu: “ఫ్రాన్సిస్‌ పట్టణం”
  • Telugu: “ఫ్రాన్సిస్‌టౌన్”
  • Thai: “แฟรนซิสทาวน์”
  • Tswana: “Francistown”
  • Tswana: “Toropo”
  • Turkish: “Francistown”
  • Ukrainian: “Франсистаун”
  • Ukrainian: “Франсістаун”
  • Ukrainian: “Френсістаун”
  • Urdu: “فرانسس ٹاؤن”
  • Uzbek: “Francistown”
  • Veps: “Fransistaun”
  • Vietnamese: “Francistown”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Francistown”
  • Yoruba: “Francistown”
  • Zulu: “Francistown, Butswana”
  • Zulu: “idolobha”

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