Southern Africa
Botswana
Southeast

Gaborone

Gaborone is the capital of . 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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  • Type: City with 232,000 residents
  • Description: capital city of Botswana
  • Also known as: “Gaberones”, “Gaberones Village”, “Gabs”, and “Motse-Mshate”
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Botswana National Stadium and High commission of South Africa in Botswana.

Stadium
Photo: US Army Africa, CC BY 2.0.
The is a multi-purpose stadium in Gaborone, . It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium holds 25,000 people.

Government office
Photo: Shosholoza, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a government office.

Monument
The is a bronze sculpture located in the Central Business District of Gaborone, . The statues depict three dikgosi, or tribal chiefs: Khama III, Sebele I, and Bathoen I.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mogoditshane and Tlokweng.

Town
Photo: Masedi Nonofo, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a town located in the of .

Town
is a peri-urban settlement classified as an urban village located east of the capital of , Gaborone and falling under the jurisdiction of South East District Council.

Gaborone

Latitude
-24.6581° or 24° 39′ 29″ south
Longitude
25.9088° or 25° 54′ 32″ east
Population
232,000
Elevation
1,011 metres (3,317 feet)
IATA airport code
GBE
United Nations Location Code
BW GBE
Open location code
5G778WR5+PG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 30670040
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
933773
Wiki­data ID
Q3919
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Gaborone” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Gaborone”
  • Afrikaans: “GC”
  • Albanian: “Gaborone”
  • Amharic: “ጋበሮኔ”
  • Amharic: “ጋቦሮን”
  • Arabic: “جابورون”
  • Arabic: “عاصمة بوتسوانا”
  • Arabic: “غابورون”
  • Aragonese: “Gaborone”
  • Armenian: “Գաբորոնե”
  • Arpitan: “Gaborone”
  • Asturian: “Gaborone”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qaborone”
  • Balinese: “Gaborone”
  • Bashkir: “Габороне”
  • Basque: “Gaborone”
  • Belarusian: “Габаронэ”
  • Bengali: “গাবোরোন”
  • Bosnian: “Gaborone”
  • Breton: “Gaborone”
  • Bulgarian: “Габороне”
  • Burmese: “ဂါဘိုရိုနေမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Gaborone”
  • Cebuano: “Gaborone”
  • Central Bikol: “Gaborone”
  • Central Kurdish: “گابۆرۆن”
  • Chechen: “Габороне”
  • Chinese: “Gaborone”
  • Chinese: “哈博罗内”
  • Chinese: “哈博羅內”
  • Chinese: “嘉柏隆里”
  • Chinese: “嘉波隆里”
  • Cornish: “Gaborone”
  • Cornish: “GC”
  • Croatian: “Gaborone”
  • Czech: “Gaborone”
  • Danish: “Gaborone”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Gaborone”
  • Dutch: “Gaborone”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جابورون”
  • Esperanto: “Gaberono”
  • Esperanto: “Gaborono”
  • Estonian: “Gaborone”
  • Ewe: “Gaborone”
  • Ewe: “Gabs”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Gaborone”
  • Finnish: “Gaborone”
  • French: “Gaborone”
  • Ga: “Gaborone”
  • Galician: “Gaborone”
  • Galician: “GC”
  • Georgian: “გაბორონე”
  • German: “Gaborone”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Gaborone”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Gabs”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Motse-Mshate”
  • Greek: “Γκαμπορόνε”
  • Greek: “Χαμπορόνε”
  • Gujarati: “ગૅબરોન”
  • Haitian: “Gaboròn”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Gaborone”
  • Hausa: “Gaborone”
  • Hausa: “Gabs”
  • Hausa: “GC”
  • Hausa: “Motse-Mshate”
  • Hebrew: “גאבורון”
  • Hebrew: “גאבורונה”
  • Hebrew: “גבורונה”
  • Hebrew: “גברון”
  • Hindi: “गबोरोनी”
  • Hindi: “गैबरोन”
  • Hindi: “गैबोरर्न”
  • Hindi: “गोबोर्नी”
  • Hungarian: “Gaborone”
  • Icelandic: “Gaboróne”
  • Icelandic: “GC”
  • Ido: “Gaborone”
  • Inari Sami: “Gaborone”
  • Inari Sami: “GC”
  • Indonesian: “Gaborone”
  • Indonesian: “GC”
  • Interlingua: “Gaborone”
  • Interlingue: “Gaborone”
  • Interlingue: “GC”
  • Irish: “Gaborone”
  • Italian: “Gaborone”
  • Italian: “GC”
  • Japanese: “ハボローネ”
  • Javanese: “Gaborone”
  • Javanese: “GC”
  • Kabiyè: “Kaborɔnɩ”
  • Kabyle: “Gaborone”
  • Kannada: “ಗೆಬರೋನ್”
  • Kannada: “ಗ್ಯಾಬೆರೋಹ್ನಿ”
  • Kazakh: “Габороне”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Gaborone”
  • Kirghiz: “Габороне”
  • Kongo: “Gaborone”
  • Korean: “가보로네”
  • Kotava: “Gaborone”
  • Kurdish: “Gaboron”
  • Latin: “Gaborone”
  • Latin: “GC”
  • Latvian: “Gaborone”
  • Latvian: “GC”
  • Ligurian: “Gaborone”
  • Ligurian: “GC”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Gaborone”
  • Lithuanian: “Gaboronas”
  • Lithuanian: “GC”
  • Livvi: “Gaborone”
  • Livvi: “GC”
  • Lombard: “Gaborone”
  • Lombard: “GC”
  • Low German: “Gaborone”
  • Low German: “GC”
  • Lule Sami: “Gaborone”
  • Lule Sami: “GC”
  • Luxembourgish: “Gaborone”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Gaborone”
  • Macedonian: “Габороне”
  • Malagasy: “Gaborone”
  • Malagasy: “GC”
  • Malay: “Gaborone”
  • Malay: “GC”
  • Malayalam: “ഗാബറോൺ”
  • Marathi: “गॅबारोनी”
  • Mazanderani: “گابورون”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Gaborone”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Gaborone”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “GC”
  • Minangkabau: “Gaborone”
  • Mingrelian: “გაბორონე”
  • Moksha: “Габаронэ”
  • Moksha: “Габоронэ”
  • Mongolian: “Габороне”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “ڭابورون”
  • N'Ko: “ߜ߭ߊߓߙߏߣߋ߫”
  • Northern Frisian: “Gaborone”
  • Northern Sami: “Gaborone”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Gaborone”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “GC”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gaborone”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “GC”
  • Norwegian: “Gaborone”
  • Novial: “Gaborone”
  • Novial: “GC”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Gaborone”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “GC”
  • Ossetian: “Габороне”
  • Panjabi: “ਗਾਬੋਰੋਨੀ”
  • Papiamento: “Gaborone”
  • Papiamento: “GC”
  • Pedi: “Gaborone”
  • Pedi: “GC”
  • Persian: “گابورون”
  • Piemontese: “Gaborone”
  • Pite Sami: “Gaborone”
  • Polish: “Gaborone”
  • Polish: “GC”
  • Portuguese: “Gaborone”
  • Portuguese: “GC”
  • Pushto: “ګابورون”
  • Quechua: “Gaborone”
  • Quechua: “GC”
  • Romanian: “Gaborone”
  • Russian: “Габеронес”
  • Russian: “Габороне”
  • Sardinian: “Gaborone”
  • Scots: “Gaborone”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Gaborone”
  • Serbian: “Габороне”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Gaborone”
  • Shona: “Gaborone”
  • Shona: “GC”
  • Silesian: “Gaborone”
  • Sindhi: “گئبروني”
  • Sinhala: “ගබෝරෝන්”
  • Sinhala: “ගැබරෝන්”
  • Skolt Sami: “Gaborone”
  • Skolt Sami: “GC”
  • Slovak: “Gaborone”
  • Slovak: “GC”
  • Slovenian: “Gaborone”
  • Slovenian: “GC”
  • Somali: “Gaborone”
  • Somali: “GC”
  • South Azerbaijani: “قابۇرۇن”
  • Southern Sami: “Gaborone”
  • Southern Sami: “GC”
  • Spanish: “Gaborone”
  • Swahili: “Gaborone”
  • Swahili: “GC”
  • Swedish: “Gaborone”
  • Swedish: “GC”
  • Tagalog: “Gaborone”
  • Tagalog: “GC”
  • Tajik: “Габороне”
  • Talysh: “Gaborone”
  • Tamil: “கபோறோன்”
  • Tamil: “காபரோனி”
  • Tamil: “காபோரோனே”
  • Telugu: “గాబరోనె”
  • Thai: “กาโบโรเน”
  • Tibetan: “ག་བོ་རོ་ནི།”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Gaborone”
  • Tswana: “Gaborone”
  • Tswana: “Gc”
  • Tswana: “Magheba”
  • Tswana: “Moshate”
  • Turkish: “Gaborone”
  • Turkish: “GC”
  • Turkmen: “Gabaron”
  • Twi: “Gaborone”
  • Twi: “Gabs”
  • Udmurt: “Габороне”
  • Ukrainian: “Габороне”
  • Ume Sami: “Gaborone”
  • Ume Sami: “GC”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Gaborone”
  • Upper Sorbian: “GC”
  • Urdu: “گبرون”
  • Uzbek: “Gaborone”
  • Uzbek: “GC”
  • Venetian: “Gaborone”
  • Venetian: “GC”
  • Veps: “Gaborone”
  • Veps: “GC”
  • Vietnamese: “Gaborone”
  • Vietnamese: “GC”
  • Volapük: “Gaborone”
  • Volapük: “GC”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Gaborone”
  • Waray (Philippines): “GC”
  • Welsh: “Gaborone”
  • Western Armenian: “Կապորոնէ”
  • Western Frisian: “Gaborone”
  • Western Panjabi: “گابورون”
  • Wu Chinese: “哈博罗内”
  • Yiddish: “גאבאראן”
  • Yiddish: “גאבאראנע”
  • Yoruba: “Gaborone”
  • Yoruba: “GC”
  • Yue Chinese: “嘉波隆里”
  • Zulu: “GC”
  • Zulu: “IGaborone”
  • “Gaborone”
  • “GC”

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