Botswana
Okavango-Chobe
North-West District

Maun

Maun is an important village in , the "tourism capital" of Botswana, and major gateway to the . In 2021, it was home to about 85,000 people.
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  • Type: City with 55,800 residents
  • Description: town in Botswana
  • Also known as: “Ko motshing” and “Maun, Botswana”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Maun Airport.

Aerodrome
Photo: Mirko Raner, CC BY 3.0.
is an serving the town of Maun in the of . It is on the north side of the town and is accessible by shuttle bus or taxi.

Maun

Latitude
-19.9861° or 19° 59′ 10″ south
Longitude
23.4224° or 23° 25′ 21″ east
Population
55,800
Elevation
947 metres (3,107 feet)
IATA airport code
MUB
United Nations Location Code
BW MUB
Open location code
5GG52C7C+HX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 261633728
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
933366
Wiki­data ID
Q170732
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Satellite Map

Discover Maun from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Maun” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Maun”
  • Afrikaans: “motshing”
  • Arabic: “ماون”
  • Asturian: “Maun”
  • Basque: “Maun”
  • Belarusian: “Маун”
  • Belarusian: “Маўн”
  • Bengali: “মাউন”
  • Catalan: “Maun”
  • Chinese: “馬翁”
  • Chinese: “马翁”
  • Croatian: “Maun”
  • Czech: “Maun”
  • Czech: “Motji”
  • Danish: “Maun”
  • Dutch: “Maun Botswana”
  • Dutch: “Maun”
  • Estonian: “Maun”
  • Finnish: “Maun”
  • French: “Maun”
  • Georgian: “მაუნი”
  • German: “Maun”
  • Greek: “Μαούν”
  • Gujarati: “મૌન”
  • Hebrew: “מאון”
  • Hindi: “माऊं”
  • Indonesian: “Maun, Botswana”
  • Indonesian: “Maun”
  • Italian: “Maun”
  • Japanese: “マウン”
  • Kannada: “ಮೌನ್”
  • Korean: “마운”
  • Latvian: “Mauna”
  • Lithuanian: “Maunas”
  • Malagasy: “Maun”
  • Malay: “Maun”
  • Marathi: “मौन”
  • Northern Frisian: “Maun”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Maun”
  • Norwegian: “Maun”
  • Persian: “ماون، بوتسوانا”
  • Persian: “ماون”
  • Polish: “Maun”
  • Portuguese: “Maun”
  • Romanian: “Maun”
  • Russian: “Маун”
  • Shona: “Maun”
  • Sinhala: “මවුන්”
  • Slovenian: “Maun, Bocvana”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ماون، بوتسوانا”
  • Spanish: “Maun”
  • Swahili: “Maun, Botswana”
  • Swahili: “Maun”
  • Swedish: “Maun”
  • Tamil: “மவுண்”
  • Telugu: “మౌన్”
  • Thai: “มาอูน”
  • Tswana: “ko motshing”
  • Tswana: “Maun”
  • Turkish: “Maun, Botsvana”
  • Turkish: “Maun”
  • Ukrainian: “Маун”
  • Urdu: “منہ”
  • Veps: “Maun”
  • Vietnamese: “Maun”
  • Zulu: “Ko motshing”
  • Zulu: “Maun, Botswana”
  • Zulu: “Maun, Butswana”

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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 “Maun”. Photo: Rolinator, Public domain.