Botswana

• Botswana
  Botswana
  Botswana, officially the Republic of Botswana , is a landlocked country located in Southern Africa. The citizens are referred to as "Batswana" . Formerly the British protectorate of Bechuanaland, Botswana adopted its new name after becoming independent within the Commonwealth on 30 September 1966...
  
  
• Botswana Railways
  Botswana Railways
  Botswana Railways is the national railway of Botswana.-History:BR was created in 1987 when the government of Botswana bought out the Botswana-based sections of the National Railways of Zimbabwe . NRZ had been initially operating the rail system after Botswana had gained independence.Management of...
  
  
• Botswana diplomatic missions
• Sankuyo
  Sankuyo
  Sankuyo is a small village in North-West District of Botswana. It is located close to Okavango Delta, and it has a primary school. The population of the village was 372 in 2001 census....
  
  

Airports in Botswana

• List of airports in Botswana
• Sir Seretse Khama International Airport
  Sir Seretse Khama International Airport
  Sir Seretse Khama International Airport located north of Gaborone is the main international airport of the capital city of Botswana. The airport is named for Sir Seretse Khama, the first president of Botswana...
  
  

Communications in Botswana

• Botswana Telecommunications Corporation
  Botswana Telecommunications Corporation
  Botswana Telecommunications Corporation is a telecommunications and Internet service provider in Botswana. BTC is headquartered in Gaborone. It provides telecommunications services all over the country and the majority of its services are in the capital city, Gaborone and the second largest city,...
  
  
• Communications in Botswana
  Communications in Botswana
  Communications in BotswanaA fiber-optic telecommunications network has been completed in Botswana connecting all major population centers.In addition to the government-owned newspaper and national radio network, there is an active, independent press . Two privately owned radio stations began...
  
  
• .bw
  .bw
  .bw is the Internet country code top-level domain for Botswana. It is administered by the University of Botswana. There does not appear to be any official registry Web site or information online about how to register domains in this TLD, but some ISPs in Botswana offer this service, and it can be...
  
  
• List of birds on stamps of Bechuanaland
• List of people on stamps of Botswana

National parks of Botswana

• List of national parks of Botswana
• Central Kalahari Game Reserve
  Central Kalahari Game Reserve
  Central Kalahari Game Reserve is an extensive national park in the Kalahari desert of Botswana. Established in 1961 it covers an area of 52,800 km² making it the second largest game reserve in the world.The park contains wildlife such as giraffe, brown hyena, warthog, cheetah, wild dog,...
  
  
• Chobe National Park
  Chobe National Park
  Chobe National Park, in northwest Botswana, has one of the largest concentrations of game in Africa. By size, it is the third largest park of the country, after the Central Kalahari Game Reserve and the Gemsbok National Park, and is the most diverse...
  
  
• Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park
  Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park
  Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park is a large wildlife preserve and conservation area in southern Africa. The park straddles the border between South Africa and Botswana and comprises two adjoining national parks: Kalahari Gemsbok National Park in South Africa and Gemsbok National Park in Botswana. The...
  
  
• Khutse Game Reserve
  Khutse Game Reserve
  Khutse Game Reserve is a National Park in Botswana....
  
  
• Makgadikgadi Pans National Park
• Mokolodi Nature Reserve
  Mokolodi Nature Reserve
  Mokolodi Nature Reserve is a private not-for-profit game reserve in southern Botswana. Founded in 1994 by The Mokolodi Wildlife Foundation, it is situated on 30 km sq. of donated land 10 km south of the capital Gaborone. The nature reserve is inhabited by a wide variety of indigenous African game,...
  
  
• Moremi Wildlife Reserve
  Moremi Wildlife Reserve
  Moremi Game Reserve is a National Park in Botswana. It rests on the eastern side of the Okavango Delta and was named after Chief Moremi of the BaTawana tribe. Moremi was designated as a Game Reserve, and not a National Park, since when it was created...
  
  
• Nxai Pan National Park
  Nxai Pan National Park
  Nxai Pan National Park is a national park in north-eastern Botswana, consisting of Nxai Pan, which is one of the Makgadikgadi Pan salt flats.-Notes:This park is considered for inclusion in the 5 Nation Kavango - Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area....
  
  

Botswana culture

• Culture of Botswana
  Culture of Botswana
  Besides referring to the language of the dominant people groups in Botswana, Setswana is the adjective used to describe the rich cultural traditions of the Batswana - whether construed as members of the Setswana ethnic groups or of all citizens of Botswana....
  
  
• Badimo
  Badimo
  Badimo is a name for the indigenous African Traditional Religion of Botswana. Although the CIA Factbook states that six percent of Botswanas are practitioners, in reality a great majority of Botswana follow at least some of the traditions deemed Badimo even if they are strong followers of another...
  
  
• Cuisine of Botswana
• Coat of arms of Botswana
  Coat of arms of Botswana
  The coat of arms of Botswana was adopted on January 25, 1966. The centre shield is supported by two zebras. The shape of the shield is that of traditional shields found in East Africa...
  
  
• Fatshe leno la rona
  Fatshe leno la rona
  "'" is the national anthem of Botswana. Written and composed by Kgalemang Tumedisco Motsete, it was adopted upon independence in 1966.- Lyrics :-External links:*...
  
  
• Flag of Botswana
  Flag of Botswana
  The national flag of Botswana was adopted on September 30, 1966. The flag is light blue with a black horizontal band across the centre, with white fimbriation. The stripes are in a ratio of 9:1:4:1:9. The blue colour stands for water, specifically rain, and comes from the motto on the Botswana...
  
  
• The Gods Must Be Crazy
  The Gods Must Be Crazy
  The Gods Must Be Crazy is a 1980 film, written and directed by Jamie Uys. The film is the first in The Gods Must Be Crazy series of films. Set in Botswana and South Africa, it tells the story of Xi, a Sho of the Kalahari Desert whose band has no knowledge of the world beyond...
  
  
• Presidents' Day (Botswana)
  Presidents' Day (Botswana)
  Presidents' Day is a two-day holiday in Botswana in July. It appears to be the third Monday and Tuesday of the month....
  
  
• Public holidays in Botswana
  Public holidays in Botswana
  This is a list of public holidays in Botswana....
  
  

See also: Sport in Botswana

Languages of Botswana

• Ikalanga language
  Ikalanga language
  The Kalanga language, or Ikalanga/TjiKalanaga, is a Bantu language spoken by the Kalanga people, 150,000 in Botswana and 700,000 in Zimbabwe . It is a Bantu language known for its extensive phoneme inventory, which includes palatalized, velarized, aspirated, and breathy voiced consonants...
  
  
• !Xóõ language
  !Xóõ language
  Taa, also known as !Xoon or ǃXóõ, is a Khoisan language known for its large number of phonemes. As of 2002, it was spoken by about 4,200 people worldwide. These are mainly in Botswana , but some are in Namibia. The people call themselves ǃXoon or ‘N|ohan Taa, also known as !Xoon or ǃXóõ, is a...
  
  
• Bemba language
  Bemba language
  The Bemba language, ChiBemba , is a major Bantu language spoken primarily in north-eastern Zambia by the Bemba people and as a lingua franca by about 18 related ethnic groups, including the Bisa people of Mpika and Lake Bangweulu, and to a lesser extent in Katanga in the Democratic Republic of the...
  
  
• G‖ana language
• Herero language
  Herero language
  The Herero language is a language of the Bantu family . It is spoken by the Herero people in Namibia and Botswana...
  
  
• Ju languages
  Ju languages
  !Kung or !Xun, also called Ju, is a dialect continuum spoken in Namibia, Botswana, and Angola by the !Kung people. Together with the ǂHoan language, it forms the Kx'a language family...
  
  
• Ju/’hoan language
  Ju/’hoan language
  ' is a southern variety of the !Kung dialect continuum spoken by about 30,000 people in the northeast of Namibia and by another 5,000 in the Northwest District of Botswana. Four regional dialects are distinguished: Epukiro, Tsumkwe, Rundu, and Omatako, with Tsumkwe being the best...
  
  
• Lozi language
  Lozi language
  Lozi, also known as siLozi and Rozi, is a Bantu language of the Niger–Congo language family within the Sotho languages branch of Zone S , that is spoken by the Lozi people, primarily in southwestern Zambia and in surrounding countries...
  
  
• Nama language
  Nama language
  The Khoekhoe language, or Khoekhoegowab, also known by the ethnic term Nàmá and previously the now-discouraged term Hottentot, is the most widespread of the Khoisan languages. It belongs to the Khoe language family, and is spoken in Namibia, Botswana, and South Africa by three ethnic groups, the...
  
  
• Shona language
  Shona language
  Shona is a Bantu language, native to the Shona people of Zimbabwe and southern Zambia; the term is also used to identify peoples who speak one of the Shona language dialects: Zezuru, Karanga, Manyika, Ndau and Korekore...
  
  
• Shua language
  Shua language
  Shwa or Shwakhwe, commonly spelled Shua, is a Khoe language of Botswana. It is spoken in central Botswana , and in parts of the Chobe District in the extreme north of Botswana. There are approximately 6,000 speakers . The term Shwakhwe means people from the salty area...
  
  
• Sotho languages
  Sotho languages
  The Sotho–Tswana languages are a group of closely related Southern Bantu languages spoken in Southern Africa that include:*Tswana , Sotho , Northern Sotho *Lozi...
  
  
• Tsoa language
  Tsoa language
  Tsoa or Tshwa, also known as Kua and Hiechware, is a Khoe language spoken by about 9300 speakers in Botswana and Zimbabwe .-Dialects:Tsoa–Kua is a dialect cluster....
  
  
• Tswana language
  Tswana language
  Tswana or Setswana is a language spoken in Southern Africa by about 4.5 million people. It is a Bantu language belonging to the Niger–Congo language family within the Sotho languages branch of Zone S , and is closely related to the Northern- and Southern Sotho languages, as well as the Kgalagadi...
  
  
• Tuu languages
  Tuu languages
  The Tuu or Taa–ǃKwi languages are a language family consisting of two language clusters spoken in Botswana and South Africa. The relationship between the two clusters is not doubted, but is not close. The name Tuu comes from a word for person common to both branches of the family...
  
  
• ‖Ani language
• ‡Hõã language
  ‡Hõã language
  ' is a Khoisan language of Botswana. It was shown to be related to the Juu languages by Heine and Honken . It is a severely endangered and moribund. The current number of speakers is less than 60 people, most of them around the age of 60...
  
  
• ‡Kx’au‖’ein language

Companies of Botswana

See also: Airlines of Botswana

• Consumer Watchdog
• Coalbed methane
  Coalbed methane
  Coalbed methane or Coal Bed Methane, coalbed gas or coal mine methane is a form of natural gas extracted from coal beds. In recent decades it has become an important source of energy in United States, Canada, and other countries...
  
  

Mines in Botswana

• Damtshaa diamond mine
  Damtshaa diamond mine
  The Damtshaa diamond mine is a diamond mine located in Botswana about west of the city of Francistown. Damtshaa, meaning "water for a tortoise", is owned by Debswana, a partnership between the De Beers company and the government of Botswana...
  
  
• Jwaneng diamond mine
  Jwaneng diamond mine
  The Jwaneng diamond mine is the richest diamond mine in the world and is located in south-central Botswana about west of the city of Gaborone, in the Naledi river valley of the Kalahari. Jwaneng, meaning "a place of small stones", is owned by Debswana, a partnership between the De Beers company...
  
  
• Letlhakane diamond mine
  Letlhakane diamond mine
  The Letlhakane diamond mine is a diamond mine located in Botswana about west of the city of Francistown. Letlhakane, meaning "little reeds", is owned by Debswana, a partnership between the De Beers company and the government of Botswana. It is the second oldest of four mines operated by the...
  
  
• Morupule Colliery
  Morupule Colliery
  The Morupule Colliery is a coal mine located in Palapye, Botswana, and owned and operated by Debswana, a partnership between the government of Botswana and De Beers...
  
  
• Orapa diamond mine
  Orapa diamond mine
  The Orapa diamond mine is the world's largest diamond mine. The mine is located in Orapa, a town in the Boteti Sub-District of Botswana about west of the city of Francistown. Orapa is owned by Debswana, a partnership between the De Beers company and the government of Botswana...
  
  
• BCL Mine
• Tati Nickle Mine

Botswana Federation of Trade Unions

• Air Botswana Employees' Union
  Air Botswana Employees' Union
  The Air Botswana Employees' Union is a trade union affiliate of the Botswana Federation of Trade Unions in Botswana....
  
  
• Botswana Agricultural Marketing Board Workers' Union
  Botswana Agricultural Marketing Board Workers' Union
  The Botswana Agricultural Marketing Board Workers' Union is a trade union affiliate of the Botswana Federation of Trade Unions in Botswana....
  
  
• Botswana Bank Employees' Union
  Botswana Bank Employees' Union
  The Botswana Bank Employee's Union is a trade union affiliate of the Botswana Federation of Trade Unions in Botswana....
  
  
• Botswana Beverages & Allied Workers' Union
• Botswana Central Bank Staff Union
  Botswana Central Bank Staff Union
  The Botswana Central Bank Staff Union is a trade union affiliate of the Botswana Federation of Trade Unions in Botswana....
  
  
• Botswana Commercial & General Workers' Union
• Botswana Construction Workers' Union
  Botswana Construction Workers' Union
  The Botswana Construction Workers' Union is a trade union affiliate of the Botswana Federation of Trade Unions in Botswana....
  
  
• Botswana Diamond Sorters & Valuators' Union
• Botswana Federation of Trade Unions
• Botswana Hotel Travel & Tourism Workers' Union
• Botswana Housing Corporation Staff Union
  Botswana Housing Corporation Staff Union
  The Botswana Housing Corporation Staff Union is a trade union affiliate of the Botswana Federation of Trade Unions in Botswana....
  
  
• Botswana Institute of Development Management Workers' Union
  Botswana Institute of Development Management Workers' Union
  The Botswana Institute of Development Management Workers' Union is a trade union affiliate of the Botswana Federation of Trade Unions in Botswana....
  
  
• Botswana Manufacturing & Packaging Workers' Union
• Botswana Meat Industry Workers' Union
  Botswana Meat Industry Workers' Union
  The Botswana Meat Industry Workers' Union is a trade union affiliate of the Botswana Federation of Trade Unions in Botswana....
  
  
• Botswana Mining Workers' Union
• Botswana National Development Bank Staff Union
  Botswana National Development Bank Staff Union
  The Botswana National Development Bank Staff Union is a trade union affiliate of the Botswana Federation of Trade Unions in Botswana....
  
  
• Botswana Postal Services Workers' Union
  Botswana Postal Services Workers' Union
  The Botswana Postal Services Workers' Union is a trade union affiliate of the Botswana Federation of Trade Unions in Botswana....
  
  
• Botswana Power Corporation Workers' Union
  Botswana Power Corporation Workers' Union
  The Botswana Power Corporation Workers' Union is a trade union affiliate of the Botswana Federation of Trade Unions in Botswana....
  
  
• Botswana Private Medical & Health Services Workers' Union
• Botswana Railways Amalgamated Workers' Union
  Botswana Railways Amalgamated Workers' Union
  The Botswana Railways Amalgamated Workers' Union is a trade union affiliate of the Botswana Federation of Trade Unions in Botswana....
  
  
• Botswana Saving Bank Employees' Union
  Botswana Saving Bank Employees' Union
  The Botswana Saving Bank Employees' Union is a trade union affiliate of the Botswana Federation of Trade Unions in Botswana....
  
  
• Botswana Telecommunication Employees' Union
  Botswana Telecommunication Employees' Union
  The Botswana Telecommunication Employees' Union is a trade union affiliate of the Botswana Federation of Trade Unions in Botswana....
  
  
• Botswana Vaccine Institute Staff Union
  Botswana Vaccine Institute Staff Union
  The Botswana Vaccine Institute Staff Union is a trade union affiliate of the Botswana Federation of Trade Unions in Botswana....
  
  
• Botswana Wholesale, Furniture & Retail Workers' Union
• National Amalgamated Central, Local & Parastatal Manual Workers' Union
• Rural Industry Promotions Company Workers' Union
  Rural Industry Promotions Company Workers' Union
  The Rural Industry Promotions Company Workers' Union is a trade union affiliate of the Botswana Federation of Trade Unions in Botswana....
  
  
• University of Botswana Non-Academic Staff Union

Universities and colleges in Botswana

• University of Botswana
  University of Botswana
  The University of Botswana, or UB was established in 1982 as the first institution of higher education in Botswana. The university has four campuses: two in the capital city Gaborone, one in Francistown, and another in Maun. The university is divided into six faculties: Business, Education,...
  
  
• Botswana Accountancy College
  Botswana Accountancy College
  The Botswana Accountancy College, also known as BAC or bac, is a business school located in the city of Gaborone, Botswana. Initially funded and established through a joint venture between The Ministry of Finance and Development Planning and Debswana, the college caters for both the accountancy and...
  
  

Fauna of Botswana

• Aardwolf
  Aardwolf
  The aardwolf is a small, insectivorous mammal, native to Eastern and Southern Africa. The name means "earth wolf" in Afrikaans/Dutch. It is also called "maanhaar jackal". It is related to hyenas, but unlike its relatives, it does not hunt large prey. This unusual animal preys on insects...
  
  
• African Buffalo
  African Buffalo
  The African buffalo, affalo, nyati, Mbogo or Cape buffalo is a large African bovine. It is not closely related to the slightly larger wild Asian water buffalo, but its ancestry remains unclear...
  
  
• African Wild Dog
  African Wild Dog
  Lycaon pictus is a large canid found only in Africa, especially in savannas and lightly wooded areas. It is variously called the African wild dog, African hunting dog, Cape hunting dog, painted dog, painted wolf, painted hunting dog, spotted dog, or ornate wolf...
  
  
• African striped weasel
  African striped weasel
  The African striped weasel , the lone member of genus Poecilogale, is a small black and white weasel native to sub-Saharan Africa. It looks very much like a striped polecat, but it is much thinner and has shorter hair. It is a sleek, black color with a white tail and four white stripes running...
  
  
• Bat-eared Fox
  Bat-eared Fox
  The bat-eared fox is a canid of the African savanna, named for its large ears. Fossil records show this canid to first appear during the middle Pleistocene, about 800,000 years ago....
  
  
• Black-footed Cat
  Black-footed Cat
  The black-footed cat is the smallest African cat, and is endemic in the south west arid zone of the southern African subregion. It is one of the lesser studied African carnivores, and has been listed as Vulnerable by IUCN since 2002....
  
  
• Brown Hyena
  Brown Hyena
  The brown hyena is a species of hyena which occurs in Namibia, Botswana, western and southern Zimbabwe, southern Mozambique and South Africa. It is currently the rarest hyena.-Description:...
  
  
• Cape Fox
  Cape Fox
  The Cape fox , also called the cama fox or the silver-backed fox, is a small fox.It has black or silver gray fur with flanks and underside in light yellow. The tip of its tail is always black....
  
  
• Caracal
  Caracal
  The caracal is a fiercely territorial medium-sized cat ranging over Western Asia, South Asia and Africa.The word caracal comes from the Turkish word "karakulak", meaning "black ear". In North India and Pakistan, the caracal is locally known as syahgosh or shyahgosh, which is a Persian term...
  
  
• Cheetah
  Cheetah
  The cheetah is a large-sized feline inhabiting most of Africa and parts of the Middle East. The cheetah is the only extant member of the genus Acinonyx, most notable for modifications in the species' paws...
  
  
• Dik-dik
  Dik-dik
  A dik-dik, pronounced "dĭk’ dĭk", is a small antelope in the Genus Madoqua that lives in the bushes of eastern and southern Africa. Dik-diks stand 30–40 cm at the shoulder, are 50–70 cm long, weigh 3–6 kg and can live for up to 10 years...
  
  
• Hippopotamus
  Hippopotamus
  The hippopotamus , or hippo, from the ancient Greek for "river horse" , is a large, mostly herbivorous mammal in sub-Saharan Africa, and one of only two extant species in the family Hippopotamidae After the elephant and rhinoceros, the hippopotamus is the third largest land mammal and the heaviest...
  
  
• Leopard
  Leopard
  The leopard , Panthera pardus, is a member of the Felidae family and the smallest of the four "big cats" in the genus Panthera, the other three being the tiger, lion, and jaguar. The leopard was once distributed across eastern and southern Asia and Africa, from Siberia to South Africa, but its...
  
  
• Lion
  Lion
  The lion is one of the four big cats in the genus Panthera, and a member of the family Felidae. With some males exceeding 250 kg in weight, it is the second-largest living cat after the tiger...
  
  
• Plains Zebra
  Plains Zebra
  The plains zebra , also known as the common zebra or Burchell's zebra, is the most common and geographically widespread species of zebra. It ranges from the south of Ethiopia through East Africa to as far south as Angola and eastern South Africa...
  
  
• Queen Whydah
  Queen Whydah
  The Shaft-tailed Whydah or Queen Whydah, Vidua regia, is a small, sparrow-like bird in the genus Vidua. During the breeding season the male has black crown and upper body plumage, golden breast and four elongated black tail shaft feathers with expanded tips...
  
  
• Ratel
  Ratel
  The honey badger , also known as the ratel, is a species of mustelid native to Africa, the Middle East and the Indian Subcontinent. Despite its name, the honey badger does not closely resemble other badger species, instead bearing more anatomical similarities to weasels...
  
  
• Serval
  Serval
  The serval , Leptailurus serval or Caracal serval, known in Afrikaans as Tierboskat, "tiger-forest-cat", is a medium-sized African wild cat. DNA studies have shown that the serval is closely related to the African golden cat and the caracal...
  
  
• Spotted Hyena
  Spotted Hyena
  The spotted hyena also known as laughing hyena, is a carnivorous mammal of the family Hyaenidae, of which it is the largest extant member. Though the species' prehistoric range included Eurasia extending from Atlantic Europe to China, it now only occurs in all of Africa south of the Sahara save...
  
  

Geography of Botswana

• Geography of Botswana
  Geography of Botswana
  Botswana is a landlocked country located in Southern Africa, north of South Africa. Botswana occupies an area of 600,370 square kilometres, of which 585,000 km² are land...
  
  
• ISO 3166-2:BW
  ISO 3166-2:BW
  ISO 3166-2:BW is the entry for Botswana in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization , which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.Currently for Botswana, ISO 3166-2 codes are...
  
  
• Makgadikgadi Pan
  Makgadikgadi Pan
  The Makgadikgadi Pan is a large salt pan in the middle of the dry savanna of northeastern Botswana. It is one of the largest salt flats in the world...
  
  
• Okavango Delta
  Okavango Delta
  The Okavango Delta , in Botswana, is the world's largest inland delta. It is formed where the Okavango River empties onto a swamp in an endorheic basin in the Kalahari Desert, where most of the water is lost to evaporation and transpiration instead of draining into the sea...
  
  
• Omuramba
  Omuramba
  An omuramba is a prehistoric river-bed occurring in the Kalahari Desert of Africa, notably in the North Eastern part of Namibia and North Western part of Botswana. The Kalahari is perhaps the greatest continuous stretch of sand in the world, and would have been classified as a semi-desert rather...
  
  

See also: Mines in Botswana

See also: National parks of Botswana

Cities in Botswana

• List of cities in Botswana
• Bobonong
  Bobonong
  Bobonong, is a village in the Central District of Botswana 80 km from Selibe Phikwe town. Bobonong has a population of around 19,000. The Babirwa tribe can be found in this village...
  
  
• Eesterus
  Eesterus
  Eesterus is a town in the Kalahari desert of western Botswana....
  
  
• Francistown
  Francistown
  Francistown or Nyangabgwe is the second largest city in Botswana, with a population of about 85,363, and often described as the "Capital of the North". It is located in eastern Botswana, about north-northeast from the capital, Gaborone...
  
  
• Gaborone
  Gaborone
  ' is the capital and largest city of Botswana with a population of 191,776 based on a 2006 survey, about 10% of the total population of Botswana....
  
  
• Ghanzi
  Ghanzi
  Ghanzi is a town in the western part of the Republic of Botswana in southern Africa. At the time of the 2001 census, there were 9,934 people living in the town with another 861 nearby. It is the administrative center of Ghanzi District and is known as the "Capital of the Kalahari"...
  
  
• Gomare
• Gumare
  Gumare
  Gumare or Gomare is a rural village located in the North-West District of Botswana, near the Okavango Delta. The population of Gumare was 6,067 in 2001 census.Four separate government institutions manage Ngamiland District:# District Council;...
  
  
• Hukuntsi
  Hukuntsi
  Hukuntsi is a village in Kgalagadi District in Botswana.Hukuntsi, meaning "four corners", is named for its status as one of the four major villages in its region of the Kgalagadi Desert. It's located 114 kilometres away from the village of Kang, off of the Gaborone-Ghanzi highway...
  
  
• Jwaneng
  Jwaneng
  Jwaneng is a town located in the Southern District of Botswana, but it is not part of this, being a separate district, with its own Town Council. -History:...
  
  
• Kang, Botswana
  Kang, Botswana
  Kang is a village Kgalagadi District of Botswana. It is situated in the Kalahari Desert and lies on the Trans-Kalahari Highway between Ghanzi in the north and Sekoma in the south. Kang also provides access to the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park in the south-west and the Central Kalahari Game Reserve...
  
  
• Kanye, Botswana
  Kanye, Botswana
  Kanye is a town located in southern Botswana. It is the administrative center of the Southern District.Kanye is the oldest major center in Botswana, founded since 1853. It is the capital of the Bangwaketse tribe who their King is King Malope II son of Seepapitso IV. Kanye is the original village...
  
  
• Kasane
  Kasane
  Kasane is a town in Botswana, close to Africa's 'Four Corners', where four countries almost meet: Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe. It is at the far north-eastern corner of Botswana where it serves as the administrative center of the Chobe District...
  
  
• Khoutsiri
  Khoutsiri
  Khoutsiri is a town in the Kalahari desert of western Botswana....
  
  
• Letlhakane
  Letlhakane
  Letlhakane is a village in the Central District of Botswana. It is located south of Mmatshumo and the population of the village was 14,962 in 2001 census....
  
  
• Lobatse, Botswana
  Lobatse, Botswana
  Lobatse is a town in South-Eastern Botswana, 70 kilometres south of the capital Gaborone, situated in a valley running north towards Gaborone. Lobatse has a population of 29,700...
  
  
• Mahalapye
  Mahalapye
  Mahalapye is a town located in the Central District of Botswana.The town has about 39,000 inhabitants and is situated along the main road between the capital Gaborone and the second largest city Francistown....
  
  
• Masunga
  Masunga
  Masunga is one of Bakalanga settlements located in the North-East District of Botswana.The village is the Headquarters of the North East District...
  
  
• Maun
  Maun
  Maun is the fifth largest town in Botswana. As of 2001, it had a population of 43,776. It is an eclectic mix of modern buildings and native huts. Maun is the "tourism capital" of Botswana and the administrative centre of Ngamiland district...
  
  
• Mochudi
  Mochudi
  Mochudi is one of the larger villages in Botswana with a population of around 40,000. It is situated in the Bakgatla tribal region, in Kgatleng District, about northeast of Gaborone...
  
  
• Mogoditshane
  Mogoditshane
  Mogoditshane is a town located in the Kweneng District of Botswana.It is in conurbation to the capital Gaborone.The football team is the Mogoditshane Fighters....
  
  
• Molepolole
  Molepolole
  Molepolole is Botswana's biggest village. It lies in the south east of the county. The people who reside in Molepolole are the Bakwena, who are one of the eight major tribes in Botswana. The Bakwena chief was among the three chiefs who went to England to seek protection from the British in the...
  
  
• Moshupa
  Moshupa
  Moshupa is a large village in the Southern District of Botswana with a population of approximately 20,000 . The people of Moshupa are called the Bakgatla-ba-ga Mmanaana, a group also found in Thamaga. Along with the related BaKgatla-ba-ga Kgafela of Mochudi, they arrived to the region from the...
  
  
• Nojane
  Nojane
  Nojane or Ncojane is a town in the Kalahari desert of Ghanzi District, western Botswana. It is located 20 kilometres from the border with Namibia, and it has both primary and secondary schools and a clinic. The population was 1,439 in 2001 census....
  
  
• Orapa
  Orapa
  Orapa is a town located in the Central District of Botswana. It is the site of the Orapa diamond mine, one of the largest diamond mines in the world, and is considered to be the diamond capital of the country...
  
  
• Palapye
  Palapye
  Palapye is a large town in Botswana, situated about halfway between Francistown and Gaborone . Over the years its position has made it a convenient stopover on one of Southern Africa's principal north–south rail and road routes...
  
  
• Ramokgwebana
  Ramokgwebana
  Ramokgwebana is a town in the North-East District of Botswana, close to the eastern border. On the other side is Plumtree, Zimbabwe. The town lies on the railway connection between Francistown and Bulawayo, Zimbabwe....
  
  
• Ramotswa, Botswana
  Ramotswa, Botswana
  Ramotswa is a village in South-East District of Botswana, southwest of the capital of Gaborone. The population was 20,680 in 2001 census.It is the tribal capital of the BaLete, an ethnic minority springing from the Nguni tribe....
  
  
• Selebi-Phikwe, Botswana
  Selebi-Phikwe, Botswana
  Selebi-Phikwe is a mining town located in the Central District of Botswana. It had a population of 49,849 in 2001 which is now estimated to have risen to c.52000. The town is an administrative district, separate from the surrounding Central District.Nickel mining commenced in 1973 and has been the...
  
  
• Serowe
  Serowe
  Serowe was famed as Botswana's largest village after Molepolole. Serowe has a rich history in Botswana'; it being the capital for the Bamangwato people in the early part of the 20th century and for being the birth place of many of Botswana's Presidents...
  
  
• Shoshong
  Shoshong
  Shoshong is a town in Botswana, formerly the chief settlement of the eastern Bamangwato.-Physical location:Shoshong is located at latitude -22.95, longitude +26.48, in the Central District, about N.N.E. of Mafeking and N. of Shoshong Road Station on the Cape Town-Bulawayo railway. It is 40 km...
  
  
• Sowa, Botswana
  Sowa, Botswana
  Sowa is a town which lies in the Central District of Botswana, but constitutes a separate administrative district. The Sowa Township was established in 1991 by an act of Parliament, Statutory Instrument No.26 of 1991 and governed by Sowa Township Regulations, 1991 under the Township Act...
  
  
• Thamaga
  Thamaga
  Thamaga is a large village located in the Kweneng District of Botswana and about 40 km west of the capital city Gaborone.The village is dominated by large rock formations, the largest being Thamaga Hill. Thamaga is second in the district to Molepolole in both size and population...
  
  
• Tlokweng
  Tlokweng
  Tlokweng is a town located directly adjacent to the capital of Botswana, Gaborone, in the South-East District. It can be considered part of the conurbation of Gaborone. Tlokweng stands on the other side of the river, and is on the road to the border with South Africa, the border post being just...
  
  
• Tonota
  Tonota
  Tonota is a village located in the Central District of Botswana.The people in Tonota are said to be Bakhurutshe who fought against some other tribes they found there and after winning the war, they owned the land and they became 'Ba bina khama le phofu'...
  
  
• Toteng
  Toteng
  Toteng is a village in the north west of Botswana, Ngamiland located at 20,22'S 22,56'E. The town is reportedly the location of the oldest "directly dated evidence of cattle in southern Africa" . Nearby towns are Sehitwa, Bobideng, in the west, Tsau and Gumare in the north and Maun in the east.The...
  
  
• Tshabong
  Tshabong
  Tshabong or Tsabong is the administrative centre of the Kgalagadi District, Botswana. It located in the Kalahari Desert. The population was 6,591 in 2001 census....
  
  
• Tutume
  Tutume
  Tutume is a large Bakalanga village located in the Central District of Botswana, about 50 km from the Zimbabwe border gate at Maitengwe. The nearest city is Francistown, about 100KM...
  
  
• Ukwi
  Ukwi
  Ukwi is a village in the Kalahari desert of Kgalagadi District, western Botswana, from the border with Namibia. The population was 453 in 2001 census....
  
  

Districts of Botswana

• Districts of Botswana
  Districts of Botswana
  ||Botswana is divided into 16 administrative districts: 10 rural districts and 6 urban districts. These are administered by 16 local authorities...
  
  
• Central District (Botswana)
  Central District (Botswana)
  Central is the largest of Botswana's districts in terms of area and population. It encompasses the traditional homeland of the Bamangwato people. Some of the most politically connected Batswana have come from the Central District, including former President Sir Seretse Khama, former President...
  
  
• Ghanzi District
  Ghanzi District
  Ghanzi is a district in western Botswana, bordering Namibia in the west and extending east into much of the interior of the country. The district's administrative centre is the town of Ghanzi. Most of the eastern half of Ghanzi makes up the Central Kalahari Game Reserve...
  
  
• Kgalagadi
  Kgalagadi
  Kgalagadi is a district in southwest Botswana, lying along the country's border with Namibia and South Africa. The administrative center is Tshabong. Kgalagadi covers a vast area of the Kalahari Desert. It has a total area of 105,200 km², and has a population of only 42,000...
  
  
• Kgatleng District
  Kgatleng District
  Kgatleng is one of the districts of Botswana, coterminous with the homeland of the Bakgatla people. Its capital is Mochudi, the hometown of protagonist Precious Ramotswe in Alexander McCall Smith's popular The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series...
  
  
• Kweneng District
  Kweneng District
  Kweneng is one of the districts of Botswana and is the recent historical homeland of the Bakwena people, the first group in Botswana converted to Christianity by famed missionary David Livingstone. Various landmarks, including Livingstone's Cave, allude to this history...
  
  
• North-East District (Botswana)
  North-East District (Botswana)
  The North-East District is one of the administrative districts of Botswana. Its capital is Masunga. In 2001, North-East had a population of 132,422 people...
  
  
• North-West District (Botswana)
  North-West District (Botswana)
  North-West District Council is one of the local authorities of Botswana. It was established in 1966, overlapping the administrative districts of Chobe and Ngamiland...
  
  
• South-East District (Botswana)
  South-East District (Botswana)
  South-East is one of the districts of Botswana.The capital city of Botswana, Gaborone, is surrounded by this district. The administrative capital for the South-East district is the village of Ramotswa....
  
  
• Southern District (Botswana)
  Southern District (Botswana)
  Southern is one of the districts of Botswana. The capital of Southern district is Kanye, home to the Bangwaketse. It is one of the largest growing villages in Botswana. There are also other large villages in the southern district like Mushopa home to the Bakgatla-ba-ga Mmanaana, and Goodhope, home...
  
  

Rivers of Botswana

• Boteti River
  Boteti River
  The Boteti River is a natural watercourse in Botswana. It derives flow from the core Okavango Delta through the Thamalakane River in Maun. It flowed year-round before the mid 1990s, after which decreasing flows led to seasonal desiccation in some lower reaches...
  
  
• Cuando River
  Cuando River
  The Cuando River is a river in south-central Africa flowing through Angola and Namibia's Caprivi Strip, into the Linyanti Swamp on the northern border of Botswana...
  
  
• Khwai River
  Khwai River
  Khwai River is a river in Northern Botswana. It extends from the Okavango River and forms part of the Northern border of Moremi Game Reserve. On the North Gate of Moremi, is the BaBugkakhwe village of Khwai. The River Khwai, not far from the village of Khwai....
  
  
• Molopo River
  Molopo River
  The Molopo River is located in southern Africa. The river generally flows to the southwest from its source, and has a length of approximately 960 kilometres. River flow is intermittent. When in flood, the flow discharges into the Orange River, which it meets downstream of Augrabies Falls National...
  
  
• Okavango River
  Okavango River
  The Okavango River is a river in southwest Africa. It is the fourth-longest river system in southern Africa, running southeastward for . It begins in Angola, where it is known as the Cubango River...
  
  
• Thamalakane River
  Thamalakane River
  The Thamalakane River is a river located in Botswana, Africa, at the southern end of the Okavango Delta. It has no well defined beginning and no clear end...
  
  

Botswana geography stubs

• Bobonong
  Bobonong
  Bobonong, is a village in the Central District of Botswana 80 km from Selibe Phikwe town. Bobonong has a population of around 19,000. The Babirwa tribe can be found in this village...
  
  
• Boteti River
  Boteti River
  The Boteti River is a natural watercourse in Botswana. It derives flow from the core Okavango Delta through the Thamalakane River in Maun. It flowed year-round before the mid 1990s, after which decreasing flows led to seasonal desiccation in some lower reaches...
  
  
• Central District (Botswana)
  Central District (Botswana)
  Central is the largest of Botswana's districts in terms of area and population. It encompasses the traditional homeland of the Bamangwato people. Some of the most politically connected Batswana have come from the Central District, including former President Sir Seretse Khama, former President...
  
  
• Central Kalahari Game Reserve
  Central Kalahari Game Reserve
  Central Kalahari Game Reserve is an extensive national park in the Kalahari desert of Botswana. Established in 1961 it covers an area of 52,800 km² making it the second largest game reserve in the world.The park contains wildlife such as giraffe, brown hyena, warthog, cheetah, wild dog,...
  
  
• Cuando River
  Cuando River
  The Cuando River is a river in south-central Africa flowing through Angola and Namibia's Caprivi Strip, into the Linyanti Swamp on the northern border of Botswana...
  
  
• Damtshaa diamond mine
  Damtshaa diamond mine
  The Damtshaa diamond mine is a diamond mine located in Botswana about west of the city of Francistown. Damtshaa, meaning "water for a tortoise", is owned by Debswana, a partnership between the De Beers company and the government of Botswana...
  
  
• Eesterus
  Eesterus
  Eesterus is a town in the Kalahari desert of western Botswana....
  
  
• Ghanzi
  Ghanzi
  Ghanzi is a town in the western part of the Republic of Botswana in southern Africa. At the time of the 2001 census, there were 9,934 people living in the town with another 861 nearby. It is the administrative center of Ghanzi District and is known as the "Capital of the Kalahari"...
  
  
• Ghanzi District
  Ghanzi District
  Ghanzi is a district in western Botswana, bordering Namibia in the west and extending east into much of the interior of the country. The district's administrative centre is the town of Ghanzi. Most of the eastern half of Ghanzi makes up the Central Kalahari Game Reserve...
  
  
• Gomare
• Gumare
  Gumare
  Gumare or Gomare is a rural village located in the North-West District of Botswana, near the Okavango Delta. The population of Gumare was 6,067 in 2001 census.Four separate government institutions manage Ngamiland District:# District Council;...
  
  
• Hukuntsi
  Hukuntsi
  Hukuntsi is a village in Kgalagadi District in Botswana.Hukuntsi, meaning "four corners", is named for its status as one of the four major villages in its region of the Kgalagadi Desert. It's located 114 kilometres away from the village of Kang, off of the Gaborone-Ghanzi highway...
  
  
• Jwaneng
  Jwaneng
  Jwaneng is a town located in the Southern District of Botswana, but it is not part of this, being a separate district, with its own Town Council. -History:...
  
  
• Jwaneng diamond mine
  Jwaneng diamond mine
  The Jwaneng diamond mine is the richest diamond mine in the world and is located in south-central Botswana about west of the city of Gaborone, in the Naledi river valley of the Kalahari. Jwaneng, meaning "a place of small stones", is owned by Debswana, a partnership between the De Beers company...
  
  
• Kang, Botswana
  Kang, Botswana
  Kang is a village Kgalagadi District of Botswana. It is situated in the Kalahari Desert and lies on the Trans-Kalahari Highway between Ghanzi in the north and Sekoma in the south. Kang also provides access to the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park in the south-west and the Central Kalahari Game Reserve...
  
  
• Kanye, Botswana
  Kanye, Botswana
  Kanye is a town located in southern Botswana. It is the administrative center of the Southern District.Kanye is the oldest major center in Botswana, founded since 1853. It is the capital of the Bangwaketse tribe who their King is King Malope II son of Seepapitso IV. Kanye is the original village...
  
  
• Kasane
  Kasane
  Kasane is a town in Botswana, close to Africa's 'Four Corners', where four countries almost meet: Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe. It is at the far north-eastern corner of Botswana where it serves as the administrative center of the Chobe District...
  
  
• Kgagodi crater
  Kgagodi crater
  Kgagodi is a meteorite crater in Botswana.It is 3.5 km in diameter and the age is estimated to be less than 180 million years and is probably from the Jurassic. The crater is exposed at the surface.-References:...
  
  
• Kgalagadi
  Kgalagadi
  Kgalagadi is a district in southwest Botswana, lying along the country's border with Namibia and South Africa. The administrative center is Tshabong. Kgalagadi covers a vast area of the Kalahari Desert. It has a total area of 105,200 km², and has a population of only 42,000...
  
  
• Kgatleng District
  Kgatleng District
  Kgatleng is one of the districts of Botswana, coterminous with the homeland of the Bakgatla people. Its capital is Mochudi, the hometown of protagonist Precious Ramotswe in Alexander McCall Smith's popular The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series...
  
  
• Khoutsiri
  Khoutsiri
  Khoutsiri is a town in the Kalahari desert of western Botswana....
  
  
• Khutse Game Reserve
  Khutse Game Reserve
  Khutse Game Reserve is a National Park in Botswana....
  
  
• Khwai River
  Khwai River
  Khwai River is a river in Northern Botswana. It extends from the Okavango River and forms part of the Northern border of Moremi Game Reserve. On the North Gate of Moremi, is the BaBugkakhwe village of Khwai. The River Khwai, not far from the village of Khwai....
  
  
• Lake Makgadikgadi
  Lake Makgadikgadi
  Lake Makgadikgadi is an ancient lake that existed in what is now the Kalahari Desert in Botswana. It may have once covered as much as 80,000 km² and was 30 m deep...
  
  
• Lake Ngami
  Lake Ngami
  Lake Ngami is an endorheic lake in Botswana north of the Kalahari Desert. It is seasonally filled by the Taughe River an affluent of the Okavango River system flowing out of the western side of the Okavango Delta. It is one of the fragmented remnants of the ancient Lake Makgadikgadi...
  
  
• Letlhakane
  Letlhakane
  Letlhakane is a village in the Central District of Botswana. It is located south of Mmatshumo and the population of the village was 14,962 in 2001 census....
  
  
• Letlhakane diamond mine
  Letlhakane diamond mine
  The Letlhakane diamond mine is a diamond mine located in Botswana about west of the city of Francistown. Letlhakane, meaning "little reeds", is owned by Debswana, a partnership between the De Beers company and the government of Botswana. It is the second oldest of four mines operated by the...
  
  
• List of national parks of Botswana
• Lobatse, Botswana
  Lobatse, Botswana
  Lobatse is a town in South-Eastern Botswana, 70 kilometres south of the capital Gaborone, situated in a valley running north towards Gaborone. Lobatse has a population of 29,700...
  
  
• Mahalapye
  Mahalapye
  Mahalapye is a town located in the Central District of Botswana.The town has about 39,000 inhabitants and is situated along the main road between the capital Gaborone and the second largest city Francistown....
  
  
• Makgadikgadi Pan
  Makgadikgadi Pan
  The Makgadikgadi Pan is a large salt pan in the middle of the dry savanna of northeastern Botswana. It is one of the largest salt flats in the world...
  
  
• Makgadikgadi Pans National Park
• Masunga
  Masunga
  Masunga is one of Bakalanga settlements located in the North-East District of Botswana.The village is the Headquarters of the North East District...
  
  
• Mochudi
  Mochudi
  Mochudi is one of the larger villages in Botswana with a population of around 40,000. It is situated in the Bakgatla tribal region, in Kgatleng District, about northeast of Gaborone...
  
  
• Mogoditshane
  Mogoditshane
  Mogoditshane is a town located in the Kweneng District of Botswana.It is in conurbation to the capital Gaborone.The football team is the Mogoditshane Fighters....
  
  
• Mokolodi Nature Reserve
  Mokolodi Nature Reserve
  Mokolodi Nature Reserve is a private not-for-profit game reserve in southern Botswana. Founded in 1994 by The Mokolodi Wildlife Foundation, it is situated on 30 km sq. of donated land 10 km south of the capital Gaborone. The nature reserve is inhabited by a wide variety of indigenous African game,...
  
  
• Molepolole
  Molepolole
  Molepolole is Botswana's biggest village. It lies in the south east of the county. The people who reside in Molepolole are the Bakwena, who are one of the eight major tribes in Botswana. The Bakwena chief was among the three chiefs who went to England to seek protection from the British in the...
  
  
• Molopo River
  Molopo River
  The Molopo River is located in southern Africa. The river generally flows to the southwest from its source, and has a length of approximately 960 kilometres. River flow is intermittent. When in flood, the flow discharges into the Orange River, which it meets downstream of Augrabies Falls National...
  
  
• Moremi Wildlife Reserve
  Moremi Wildlife Reserve
  Moremi Game Reserve is a National Park in Botswana. It rests on the eastern side of the Okavango Delta and was named after Chief Moremi of the BaTawana tribe. Moremi was designated as a Game Reserve, and not a National Park, since when it was created...
  
  
• Nojane
  Nojane
  Nojane or Ncojane is a town in the Kalahari desert of Ghanzi District, western Botswana. It is located 20 kilometres from the border with Namibia, and it has both primary and secondary schools and a clinic. The population was 1,439 in 2001 census....
  
  
• North-East District (Botswana)
  North-East District (Botswana)
  The North-East District is one of the administrative districts of Botswana. Its capital is Masunga. In 2001, North-East had a population of 132,422 people...
  
  
• North-West District (Botswana)
  North-West District (Botswana)
  North-West District Council is one of the local authorities of Botswana. It was established in 1966, overlapping the administrative districts of Chobe and Ngamiland...
  
  
• Nxai Pan National Park
  Nxai Pan National Park
  Nxai Pan National Park is a national park in north-eastern Botswana, consisting of Nxai Pan, which is one of the Makgadikgadi Pan salt flats.-Notes:This park is considered for inclusion in the 5 Nation Kavango - Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area....
  
  
• Omuramba
  Omuramba
  An omuramba is a prehistoric river-bed occurring in the Kalahari Desert of Africa, notably in the North Eastern part of Namibia and North Western part of Botswana. The Kalahari is perhaps the greatest continuous stretch of sand in the world, and would have been classified as a semi-desert rather...
  
  
• Orapa
  Orapa
  Orapa is a town located in the Central District of Botswana. It is the site of the Orapa diamond mine, one of the largest diamond mines in the world, and is considered to be the diamond capital of the country...
  
  
• Orapa diamond mine
  Orapa diamond mine
  The Orapa diamond mine is the world's largest diamond mine. The mine is located in Orapa, a town in the Boteti Sub-District of Botswana about west of the city of Francistown. Orapa is owned by Debswana, a partnership between the De Beers company and the government of Botswana...
  
  
• Palapye
  Palapye
  Palapye is a large town in Botswana, situated about halfway between Francistown and Gaborone . Over the years its position has made it a convenient stopover on one of Southern Africa's principal north–south rail and road routes...
  
  
• Ramokgwebana
  Ramokgwebana
  Ramokgwebana is a town in the North-East District of Botswana, close to the eastern border. On the other side is Plumtree, Zimbabwe. The town lies on the railway connection between Francistown and Bulawayo, Zimbabwe....
  
  
• Ramotswa, Botswana
  Ramotswa, Botswana
  Ramotswa is a village in South-East District of Botswana, southwest of the capital of Gaborone. The population was 20,680 in 2001 census.It is the tribal capital of the BaLete, an ethnic minority springing from the Nguni tribe....
  
  
• Sankuyo
  Sankuyo
  Sankuyo is a small village in North-West District of Botswana. It is located close to Okavango Delta, and it has a primary school. The population of the village was 372 in 2001 census....
  
  
• Selebi-Phikwe, Botswana
  Selebi-Phikwe, Botswana
  Selebi-Phikwe is a mining town located in the Central District of Botswana. It had a population of 49,849 in 2001 which is now estimated to have risen to c.52000. The town is an administrative district, separate from the surrounding Central District.Nickel mining commenced in 1973 and has been the...
  
  
• Serowe
  Serowe
  Serowe was famed as Botswana's largest village after Molepolole. Serowe has a rich history in Botswana'; it being the capital for the Bamangwato people in the early part of the 20th century and for being the birth place of many of Botswana's Presidents...
  
  
• Sir Seretse Khama International Airport
  Sir Seretse Khama International Airport
  Sir Seretse Khama International Airport located north of Gaborone is the main international airport of the capital city of Botswana. The airport is named for Sir Seretse Khama, the first president of Botswana...
  
  
• South-East District (Botswana)
  South-East District (Botswana)
  South-East is one of the districts of Botswana.The capital city of Botswana, Gaborone, is surrounded by this district. The administrative capital for the South-East district is the village of Ramotswa....
  
  
• Southern District (Botswana)
  Southern District (Botswana)
  Southern is one of the districts of Botswana. The capital of Southern district is Kanye, home to the Bangwaketse. It is one of the largest growing villages in Botswana. There are also other large villages in the southern district like Mushopa home to the Bakgatla-ba-ga Mmanaana, and Goodhope, home...
  
  
• Sowa, Botswana
  Sowa, Botswana
  Sowa is a town which lies in the Central District of Botswana, but constitutes a separate administrative district. The Sowa Township was established in 1991 by an act of Parliament, Statutory Instrument No.26 of 1991 and governed by Sowa Township Regulations, 1991 under the Township Act...
  
  
• Tati Concessions Land
  Tati Concessions Land
  The Tati Concessions Land was a concession created in the borderlands of the Matabele kingdom and the Bechuanaland Protectorate. The concession was originally made by the Matabele King to Sir John Swinburne...
  
  
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• Thamaga
  Thamaga
  Thamaga is a large village located in the Kweneng District of Botswana and about 40 km west of the capital city Gaborone.The village is dominated by large rock formations, the largest being Thamaga Hill. Thamaga is second in the district to Molepolole in both size and population...
  
  
• Thamalakane River
  Thamalakane River
  The Thamalakane River is a river located in Botswana, Africa, at the southern end of the Okavango Delta. It has no well defined beginning and no clear end...
  
  
• Tlokweng
  Tlokweng
  Tlokweng is a town located directly adjacent to the capital of Botswana, Gaborone, in the South-East District. It can be considered part of the conurbation of Gaborone. Tlokweng stands on the other side of the river, and is on the road to the border with South Africa, the border post being just...
  
  
• Tonota
  Tonota
  Tonota is a village located in the Central District of Botswana.The people in Tonota are said to be Bakhurutshe who fought against some other tribes they found there and after winning the war, they owned the land and they became 'Ba bina khama le phofu'...
  
  
• Toteng
  Toteng
  Toteng is a village in the north west of Botswana, Ngamiland located at 20,22'S 22,56'E. The town is reportedly the location of the oldest "directly dated evidence of cattle in southern Africa" . Nearby towns are Sehitwa, Bobideng, in the west, Tsau and Gumare in the north and Maun in the east.The...
  
  
• Tshabong
  Tshabong
  Tshabong or Tsabong is the administrative centre of the Kgalagadi District, Botswana. It located in the Kalahari Desert. The population was 6,591 in 2001 census....
  
  
• Tsodilo
  Tsodilo
  Tsodilo is a UNESCO World Heritage Site located in northwestern Botswana. It was inscribed in 2001 due to its unique religious and spiritual significance to local peoples, as well as its unique record of human settlement over many millennia. It contains over 4,500 rock paintings in an area of...
  
  
• Tutume
  Tutume
  Tutume is a large Bakalanga village located in the Central District of Botswana, about 50 km from the Zimbabwe border gate at Maitengwe. The nearest city is Francistown, about 100KM...
  
  
• Ukwi
  Ukwi
  Ukwi is a village in the Kalahari desert of Kgalagadi District, western Botswana, from the border with Namibia. The population was 453 in 2001 census....
  
  

Government of Botswana

• Colonial heads of Botswana (Bechuanaland)
  Colonial heads of Botswana (Bechuanaland)
  This is a list of the colonial heads of Bechuanaland Protectorate, which gained independence as Botswana in 1966. From 1885 to 1891 the post was known as Deputy Commissioner; from 1891 to 1964 as Resident Commissioner; and from 1964 to independence as The Queen's Commissioner.In the table below,...
  
  
• Heads of government of Botswana
  Heads of government of Botswana
  -Affiliations:Botswana Congress Party-Sources:* http://www.rulers.org/rulb1.html#botswana* African States and Rulers, John Stewart, McFarland...
  
  
• Heads of state of Botswana
  Heads of state of Botswana
  -Presidents of Botswana :- Affiliations :- See also :*Heads of government of Botswana*Vice-President of Botswana*Colonial heads of Botswana *Lists of office-holders...
  
  
• Festus Mogae
  Festus Mogae
  Festus Gontebanye Mogae is a Botswana politician who was President of Botswana from 1998 to 2008. He succeeded Quett Masire as President in 1998 and was reelected in October 2004; after ten years in office, he stepped down in 2008 and was succeeded by Lieutenant General Ian Khama...
  
  
• Vice-President of Botswana
  Vice-President of Botswana
  The Vice-President of Botswana is the second-highest executive official in the Government of Botswana.-List of Vice-Presidents of Botswana:-See also:*Botswana**Heads of state of Botswana**Heads of government of Botswana...
  
  
• Parliamentary constituencies of Botswana
  Parliamentary constituencies of Botswana
  Botswana is divided into fifty-seven parliamentary constituencies. The constituencies were last updated in 2002.-List of constituencies:-External links:* *...
  
  

History of Botswana

• History of Botswana
  History of Botswana
  The Batswana, a term also used to denote all citizens of Botswana, refers to the country's major ethnic group . Prior to European contact, the Batswana lived as herders and farmers under tribal rule.-Before European contact:...
  
  
• Bechuanaland Protectorate
• Colonial heads of Botswana (Bechuanaland)
  Colonial heads of Botswana (Bechuanaland)
  This is a list of the colonial heads of Bechuanaland Protectorate, which gained independence as Botswana in 1966. From 1885 to 1891 the post was known as Deputy Commissioner; from 1891 to 1964 as Resident Commissioner; and from 1964 to independence as The Queen's Commissioner.In the table below,...
  
  
• Frederick Thomas Green
  Frederick Thomas Green
  Frederick Thomas Green was an explorer, hunter and trader in what is now Namibia and Botswana. From 1850 to 1853 he was in the Lake Ngami area, travelling hunting and trading with his older brother Charles...
  
  
• Rulers of Balete (baMalete)
  Rulers of Balete (baMalete)
  -List of Rulers of Balete :Territory located in present-day Botswana.Kgôsikgolo = Paramount Chief-See also:*Botswana**Heads of state of Botswana**Heads of government of Botswana**Colonial heads of Botswana...
  
  
• Rulers of Bangwato (bamaNgwato)
  Rulers of Bangwato (bamaNgwato)
  -List of Rulers of the Bangwato :Territory located in present-day Botswana.Kgôsikgolo = Paramount ChiefNote...
  
  
• Rulers of baKgatla
  Rulers of baKgatla
  -List of Rulers of baKgatla:Territory located in present-day Botswana.Kgôsikgolo = Paramount Chief-See also:*Botswana**Heads of state of Botswana**Heads of government of Botswana**Colonial heads of Botswana ***Rulers of baKwêna...
  
  
• Rulers of baKwêna
  Rulers of baKwêna
  -List of Rulers of baKwêna:Territory located in present-day Botswana.Kgôsikgolo = Paramount Chief-See also:*Botswana**Heads of state of Botswana**Heads of government of Botswana...
  
  
• Rulers of baNgwaketse
  Rulers of baNgwaketse
  The following is a list of rulers of baNgwaketse, a territory located in present-day Botswana.Kgôsikgolo = Paramount Chief- See also :*Botswana**Heads of state of Botswana...
  
  
• Rulers of baRôlông
  Rulers of baRôlông
  -List of Rulers of baRôlông:Territory located in present-day Botswana.Kgôsikgolo = Paramount Chief-Sources:*http://www.rulers.org/botstrad.htmlAt this point the Barolong found themselves separated by the Botswana - South Africa border...
  
  
• Rulers of baTawana
  Rulers of baTawana
  -List of Rulers of baTawana:Territory located in present-day Botswana.Kgôsikgolo = Paramount Chief-See also:*Botswana**Heads of state of Botswana**Heads of government of Botswana**Colonial heads of Botswana ***Rulers of baKgatla...
  
  
• Rulers of baTlôkwa
  Rulers of baTlôkwa
  -List of Rulers of baTlôkwa:Territory located in present-day Botswana.Kgôsikgolo = Paramount Chief-See also:*Botswana**Heads of state of Botswana**Heads of government of Botswana**Colonial heads of Botswana ***Rulers of baKgatla...
  
  
• Setshele I
  Setshele I
  Setshele I a Motswasele "Rra Mokonopi", ruler of the baKwena people of Botswana 1831-1892 , also known as Sechele.-See also:* Rulers of baKwêna...
  
  

See also: Archaeological sites in Botswana

Elections in Botswana

• Elections in Botswana
  Elections in Botswana
  Elections in Botswana have been held regularly since independence, and have been consistently judged free and fair by international observers....
  
  
• Botswana general election, 1994
  Botswana general election, 1994
  General elections were held in Botswana on 15 October 1994. They were fought between the Botswana Democratic Party and four opposition parties. Forty seats in the Parliament were contested, with the largest opposition party, the Botswana National Front making huge strides, as its representation...
  
  
• Botswana general election, 1999
  Botswana general election, 1999
  The Botswana general election of 1999 was fought between the Botswana Democratic Party and four opposition parties. 40 seats in the Parliament were contested, with the largest opposition party, the Botswana Congress Party losing its leader and ten seats, reducing the party to a mere seat...
  
  
• Botswana general election, 2004
  Botswana general election, 2004
  The Botswana general election of 2004 was contested by the Botswana Democratic Party and eight opposition parties. 57 seats in the Parliament were contested, with the largest opposition party, the Botswana National Front , accusing the Independent Election Commission of fundamental errors in its...
  
  

Organisations based in Botswana

• The Botswana Scouts Association
  The Botswana Scouts Association
  The Botswana Scouts Association, the national Scouting organization of Botswana, was founded in 1936, and became a member of the World Organization of the Scout Movement in 1958...
  
  

See also: Companies of Botswana

See also: Schools in Botswana

See also: Trade unions of Botswana

See also: Universities and colleges in Botswana

Political parties in Botswana

• List of political parties in Botswana
• Botswana Alliance Movement
  Botswana Alliance Movement
  The Botswana Alliance Movement is a progressive political party in Botswana, led by Ephraim Lepetu Setshwaelo. Prior to the 2009 election the party entered into an electoral pact with the Botswana Congress Party. In the 2009 elections the party won a seat in the National Assembly of Botswana for...
  
  
• Botswana Congress Party
  Botswana Congress Party
  The Botswana Congress Party is a social-democratic political party in Botswana, considered the third largest party in Botswana.The BCP was founded in 1998 in a split from the Botswana National Front, with most of the BNF's sitting Members of Parliament joining the new party after a leadership...
  
  
• Botswana Democratic Party
  Botswana Democratic Party
  The Botswana Democratic Party is the governing conservative party in Botswana. Its chairman is Daniel Kwelagobe.BDP was shaped by Sir Seretse Khama, who is celebrated for nurturing the economic and political success of Botswana. The party's base is in the traditional Setswana communities, and it...
  
  
• Botswana Independence Party
  Botswana Independence Party
  The Botswana Independence Party was a political party in Botswana that existed from 1964 to 1994.The BIP was founded in 1964 by former members of the Botswana People's Party and was led by Motsamai Mpho....
  
  
• Botswana National Front
  Botswana National Front
  The Botswana National Front has been the main opposition party in Botswana since the 1969 elections.It achieved its greatest electoral success in the 1994 elections, when it won 37.1% of the vote and 13 of 40 parliamentary seats. A factional conflict in 1998 led to the departure of 11 of these...
  
  
• Botswana People's Party
  Botswana People's Party
  The Botswana People’s Party is a progressive political party in Botswana, led by Bernard Balikani. BPP is the first political movement in Botswana having being formed in 1960. At the last general election, the party won no seats.-History:...
  
  
• International Socialist Organization (Botswana)
  International Socialist Organization (Botswana)
  The International Socialists Botswana is a small Botswanian Trotskyist organisation. It is part of the International Socialist Tendency and produces a newspaper called Socialism from Below....
  
  
• Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin Movement
  Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin Movement
  The Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin Movement is a communist party in Botswana without parliamentary representation, led by Themba Joina. At the 2009 general election, the party won 0.05% of the vote, and thus no seats....
  
  
• New Democratic Front
  New Democratic Front
  The New Democratic Front is a progressive political party in Botswana without parliamentary representation. Led by Dick Bayford, it split away from the Botswana National Front in 2003. It won only 0.78% of the popular votes at the last elections...
  
  

Botswana people by occupation

See also: Botswana diplomats

See also: Botswana educators

See also: Botswana politicians

See also: Botswana sportspeople

Botswana writers

• Caitlin Davies
  Caitlin Davies
  Caitlin Davies is an English author. Her parents are Margaret Forster and Hunter Davies, both well-known writers.Although born in England, Davies has been associated with Botswana since 1990 when she met her husband, Ron, while studying for a Masters in English at Clark University, USA...
  
  
• Unity Dow
  Unity Dow
  Unity Dow is a judge, human rights activist, and writer from Botswana. She came from a rural background that tended toward traditional values of the African kind...
  
  
• Bessie Head
  Bessie Head
  Bessie Emery Head is usually considered Botswana's most influential writer.-Biography:Bessie Emery Head was born in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, the child of a wealthy white South African woman and a black servant when interracial relationships were illegal in South Africa...
  
  
• Moteane Melamu
  Moteane Melamu
  Moteane Melamu is a writer and academic from Botswana. He is a professor at the University of Botswana.-Bibliography:*Children of the Twilight by Moteane Melamu ISBN 0-86543-678-9*Living and Partly Living by Moteane Melamu ISBN 1-86867-059-7...
  
  
• Patrick van Rensburg
  Patrick van Rensburg
  Patrick van Rensburg is an African educationalist and former anti-apartheid activist. He founded the Brigades Movement in Botswana, and the Foundation for Education with Production which is active in South Africa, Botswana and Zimbabwe....
  
  
• Barolong Seboni
  Barolong Seboni
  Barolong Seboni is a poet and academic from Botswana. He received his BA from the University of Botswana and his Master's Degree from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He has translated Botswana proverbs into English...
  
  
• Andrew Sesinyi
  Andrew Sesinyi
  Andrew Sesinyi is the Motswana author of Love on the Rocks . He also worked in the media administration of Botswana. -External links:**...
  
  
• Thomas Tlou
  Thomas Tlou
  Thomas Tlou was a Botswana academic and historian, and former representative of Botswana at the United Nations.Tlou studied at Luther College, Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the United States...
  
  

Botswana politicians

• Gaositwe K.T. Chiepe
  Gaositwe K.T. Chiepe
  Gaositwe Keagakwa Tibe Chiepe is a former Botswana politician and diplomat with the Botswana Democratic Party.-Education and early life:...
  
  
• Seretse Khama
  Seretse Khama
  Sir Seretse Khama, KBE was a statesman from Botswana. Born into one of the more powerful of the royal families of what was then the British Protectorate of Bechuanaland, and educated abroad in neighbouring South Africa and in the United Kingdom, he returned home—with a popular but controversial...
  
  
• Seretse Ian Khama
• Ruth Williams Khama
  Ruth Williams Khama
  Ruth Williams Khama, Lady Khama was the wife of Botswana's first president Sir Seretse Khama, the Paramount Chief of its Bamangwato tribe. Lady Khama was a former WAAF ambulance driver from Blackheath, London. She met the then Prince Seretse Khama while he was attending law school in England and...
  
  
• Joseph Legwaila
  Joseph Legwaila
  Joseph Manson John Legwaila is a diplomat and politician from Botswana. Legwaila studied politics, history and international relations at the University of Alberta in Canada and taught there for a time. He was Vice-President of the UN General Assembly for three sessions in total...
  
  
• Quett Masire
  Quett Masire
  Quett Ketumile Joni Masire, GCMG was the second President of Botswana for the Botswana Democratic Party from 1980 to 1998. He stepped down and was succeeded by the then Vice-President of Botswana, Festus Mogae, who became the third President of Botswana...
  
  
• Mompati Merafhe
  Mompati Merafhe
  Lt. Gen. Mompati Sebogodi Merafhe is a Botswana politician, currently serving as Vice-President. He is a retired Lieutenant-General and was Botswana's Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1994 to 2008.-Biography:...
  
  
• Peter Mmusi
  Peter Mmusi
  Peter Mmusi was the Vice-President of Botswana from 3 January 1983 until 1992. He resigned following a Presidential Commission which identified him as taking part in illegal land dealings outside of Gaborone.-References:...
  
  
• Festus Mogae
  Festus Mogae
  Festus Gontebanye Mogae is a Botswana politician who was President of Botswana from 1998 to 2008. He succeeded Quett Masire as President in 1998 and was reelected in October 2004; after ten years in office, he stepped down in 2008 and was succeeded by Lieutenant General Ian Khama...
  
  
• Samuel O. Outlule
  Samuel O. Outlule
  Samuel Otsile Outlule was the Permanent Representative of Botswana to the United Nations from 2005 to 2010. He presented his credentials to the Secretary-General of the United Nations on 18 October 2005, replacing Alfred M...
  
  
• Lenyeletse Seretse
  Lenyeletse Seretse
  Lenyeletse Seretse was Vice-President of Botswana from 1980 until his death on 3 January 1983. From Northern Botswana, Seretse was appointed Vice-President to placate his fellow Northerners following the assumption of Southerner Quett Masire to the Presidency.-References:...
  
  
• Andrew Sesinyi
  Andrew Sesinyi
  Andrew Sesinyi is the Motswana author of Love on the Rocks . He also worked in the media administration of Botswana. -External links:**...
  
  
• Sheila Tlou
  Sheila Tlou
  Sheila Dinotshe Tlou is a Botswana specialist in HIV/AIDS and women's health, and a nursing educator. She was Minister of Health from 2004 to 2008.-Education and career:...
  
  

Politics of Botswana

• Politics of Botswana
  Politics of Botswana
  Politics of Botswana takes place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic republic, whereby the President of Botswana is both head of state and head of government, and of a multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the government. Legislative power is vested in both...
  
  
• Heads of government of Botswana
  Heads of government of Botswana
  -Affiliations:Botswana Congress Party-Sources:* http://www.rulers.org/rulb1.html#botswana* African States and Rulers, John Stewart, McFarland...
  
  
• Heads of state of Botswana
  Heads of state of Botswana
  -Presidents of Botswana :- Affiliations :- See also :*Heads of government of Botswana*Vice-President of Botswana*Colonial heads of Botswana *Lists of office-holders...
  
  
• House of Chiefs of Botswana
  House of Chiefs of Botswana
  The House of Chiefs of Botswana is an advisory body of the country's Parliament.-Composition:The House of Chiefs consists of 35 members. Eight members are hereditary chiefs from Botswana's principal tribes...
  
  
• National Assembly of Botswana
  National Assembly of Botswana
  The National Assembly of Botswana is the legislature of the country's unicameral Parliament. It is advised by the House of Chiefs, which is not a house of Parliament....
  
  
• Parliament of Botswana
  Parliament of Botswana
  The Parliament of Botswana consists of the President and the National Assembly. In contrast to other Parliamentary systems, the Parliament elects the President directly for a set five year term of office. There are no term limits...
  
  
• Vice-President of Botswana
  Vice-President of Botswana
  The Vice-President of Botswana is the second-highest executive official in the Government of Botswana.-List of Vice-Presidents of Botswana:-See also:*Botswana**Heads of state of Botswana**Heads of government of Botswana...
  
  

See also: Elections in Botswana

See also: Foreign relations of Botswana

See also: Political parties in Botswana

See also: Botswana politicians

Religion in Botswana

• Christianity in Botswana
  Christianity in Botswana
  More than 70% of the population of Botswana is Christian, with most being members of the Anglican, United Congregational Church of Southern Africa, the Methodist Church of Southern Africa, and African independent churches. Anglicans in Botswana are part of the Church of the Province of Central Africa...
  
  
• Islam in Botswana
  Islam in Botswana
  Islam is the third largest religion in Botswana, following Christianity and indigenous beliefs. Islam came to the country through Muslim immigrants from South Asia, who settled in the area during the British colonial rule. Muslims comprise less than 1 percent of the population...
  
  
• Roman Catholicism in Botswana
  Roman Catholicism in Botswana
  The Roman Catholic Church in Botswana is part of the worldwide Roman Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope and curia in Rome.There are about 80,000 Catholics in the country, representing about 5% of the total population....
  
  

Botswana society

• Child labour in Botswana
  Child labour in Botswana
  Little is known about the nature and extent of child labour in Botswana, although recent studies have shown that the phenomenon does occur in the country....
  
  
• Demographics of Botswana
  Demographics of Botswana
  This article is about the demographic features of the population of Botswana, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population....
  
  
• Presidents' Day (Botswana)
  Presidents' Day (Botswana)
  Presidents' Day is a two-day holiday in Botswana in July. It appears to be the third Monday and Tuesday of the month....
  
  
• Public holidays in Botswana
  Public holidays in Botswana
  This is a list of public holidays in Botswana....
  
  
• The Botswana Scouts Association
  The Botswana Scouts Association
  The Botswana Scouts Association, the national Scouting organization of Botswana, was founded in 1936, and became a member of the World Organization of the Scout Movement in 1958...
  
  

See also: Languages of Botswana

Ethnic groups in Botswana

• !Kung people
  !Kung people
  The ǃKung, also spelled ǃXun, are a Bushman people living in the Kalahari Desert in Namibia, Botswana and in Angola. They speak the ǃKung language, noted for using click consonants, generally classified as part of the Khoisan language family...
  
  
• Bamangwato
  Bamangwato
  The Bamangwato can be said to be one of the eight 'principal' Tswana tribes of Botswana, and just like any other Tswana tribe in Botswana, constitutes a small percent in the central district even in their capital serowe. They ruled over majority Bakalangaand other tribes such as the san,bitwa and...
  
  
• Bushmen
  Bushmen
  The indigenous people of Southern Africa, whose territory spans most areas of South Africa, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Mozambique, Swaziland, Botswana, Namibia, and Angola, are variously referred to as Bushmen, San, Sho, Barwa, Kung, or Khwe...
  
  
• Herero
• Lozi people
  Lozi people
  The Lozi people are an ethnic group primarily of western Zambia, inhabiting the region of Barotseland. Lozi are also found in Namibia , Angola and Botswana.-Name:...
  
  
• Namaqua
  Namaqua
  Nama are an African ethnic group of South Africa, Namibia and Botswana. They traditionally speak the Nama language of the Khoe-Kwadi language family, although many Nama now speak Afrikaans. The Nama are the largest group of the Khoikhoi people, most of whom have largely disappeared as a group,...
  
  
• Sotho–Tswana
• Tswana

Botswana athletes

• Gable Garenamotse
  Gable Garenamotse
  Gable Garenamotse is a Botswana long jumper who has won two silver medals at the Commonwealth Games....
  
  
• Kabelo Kgosiemang
  Kabelo Kgosiemang
  Kabelo Kgosiemang is a male high jumper from Botswana. He won the 2006 African Championships in Athletics with a personal best jump of 2.30 metres, the best result since Abderrahmane Hammad won with 2.34 m in 2000....
  
  
• Tlhalosang Molapisi
  Tlhalosang Molapisi
  Tlhalosang Molapisi is a sprinter from Botswana. Competing mostly over 100 metres, his personal best is 10.44 seconds....
  
  
• California Molefe
  California Molefe
  California Molefe is a Botswana sprinter runner who won a silver medal in 400 metres at the 2006 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Moscow, becoming the first Botswana athlete to win a major international medal....
  
  
• Obakeng Ngwigwa
  Obakeng Ngwigwa
  Obakeng Ambrose Ngwigwa is a Botswana sprinter.He won the bronze medal over 400 metres at the 2004 World Junior Championships in Athletics with a personal best and national junior record of 45.97 seconds.-External links:...
  
  

Olympic competitors for Botswana

• Gable Garenamotse
  Gable Garenamotse
  Gable Garenamotse is a Botswana long jumper who has won two silver medals at the Commonwealth Games....
  
  
• Khumiso Ikgopoleng
  Khumiso Ikgopoleng
  Khumiso Stephen Ikgopoleng is a boxer from Botswana, who competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. There he was eliminated in the second round of the men's featherweight division by Nigeria's Muideen Ganiyu.Ikgopoleng carried the flag of Botswana at the opening ceremony of the...
  
  
• Lechedzani Luza
  Lechedzani Luza
  Lechedzani Luza is a boxer from Botswana. At the 2002 Commonwealth Games, Luza took the silver medal. He took gold in 2004 at the 2nd Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Gaborone, finally defeating Madagascar's Georges Rakotoarimbelo...
  
  
• France Mabiletsa
  France Mabiletsa
  France Mabiletsa is an Olympic light heavyweight boxer from Botswana. He won a bronze medal at the 1994 Commonwealth Games and competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics.-References:...
  
  
• California Molefe
  California Molefe
  California Molefe is a Botswana sprinter runner who won a silver medal in 400 metres at the 2006 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Moscow, becoming the first Botswana athlete to win a major international medal....
  
  

Football in Botswana

• • Football in Botswana
    Football in Botswana
    Football is clearly the number one sport in Botswana. By October 2007 there are about 348 men’s clubs registered while only nine women's clubs have been registered. The national team has not yet enjoyed any tangible success on the field. In January 2008 Botswana reached number 101 on the...
    
    
• Botswana Football Association
  Botswana Football Association
  The Botswana Football Association is the governing body of football in Botswana. It was founded in 1970, and affiliated to FIFA and to CAF in 1976. It organizes national football leagues and the national team....
  
  
• Botswana national football team
  Botswana national football team
  The Botswana national football team, nicknamed 'The Zebras' is the national football team of Botswana and is controlled by the Botswana Football Association. They have never qualified for the World Cup but they have qualified for the 2012 African Nations Cup...
  
  
• List of football clubs in Botswana

Botswana football clubs

• Botswana Defence Force XI
  Botswana Defence Force XI
  Botswana Defence Force XI Football Club is a football club from Botswana based in Gaborone. It is the club of the Botswana Defence Force.-Honors:*Premier League: 7*Botswana Challenge Cup: 3-Performance in CAF competitions:...
  
  
• Gaborone United
  Gaborone United
  Gaborone United, or short GU, are a football club from Botswana based in Gaborone.-Honors:*Botswana Premier League : 6** 1967, 1969, 1970, 1986, 1990, 2009*Botswana Challenge Cup: 5** 1968, 1970, 1984, 1985, 1990...
  
  
• Mogoditshane Fighters
  Mogoditshane Fighters
  Mogoditshane Fighters are a football club from the Mogoditshane in Botswana.The club's nickname is "The Brazilians".- Achievements :*Mascom Premier League: 4** 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003*Botswana Challenge Cup: 3** 1999, 2000, 2003...
  
  
• Amagents Football Club
  Amagents Football Club
  Amagents Football Club is a football club based in the Broadhurst district of Gaborone, Botswana. For the 2010/11 Season they will be playing in the GACFA Second Division.-Organisation:...
  
  

Botswana at the Olympics

• Botswana at the 1992 Summer Olympics
  Botswana at the 1992 Summer Olympics
  -Athletics:Men's 400 metres*Camera NterekeMen's 800 metres*Mbiganyi TheeMen's 1500 metres*Bobby GaseitsiweMen's 5000 metres*Zachariah Ditetso* Heat — 13:54.88 Men's Marathon...
  
  
• Botswana at the 1996 Summer Olympics
  Botswana at the 1996 Summer Olympics
  Botswana competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States.-Men:Track and road events-Boxing:-See also:* Botswana at the 1994 Commonwealth Games* Botswana at the 1998 Commonwealth Games-References:**...
  
  
• Botswana at the 2000 Summer Olympics
  Botswana at the 2000 Summer Olympics
  -Athletics:Men's 400m* Johnson Kubisa*Round 1 — 46.97 Men's 800m* Glody Dube*Round 1 — 01:46.17*Semifinal — 01:44.70*Final — 01:46.24 Men's 4x400m Relay...
  
  
• Botswana at the 2004 Summer Olympics
  Botswana at the 2004 Summer Olympics
  -Athletics:Men's 400 metres:* California Molefe — Round 1, 45.88 s Women's 400 metres:* Amantle Montsho — Round 1: 53.77 s Men's 800 metres:* Glody Dube — Round 1, 1:48.2...
  
  

See also: Olympic competitors for Botswana

Transport in Botswana

• Transport in Botswana
  Transport in Botswana
  A sparsely populated, arid country, Botswana has nonetheless managed to incorporate much of its interior into the national economy. An "inner circle" highway connecting all major towns and district capitals is completely paved, and the all-weather Trans-Kalahari Highway connects the country to...
  
  
• Botswana Railways
  Botswana Railways
  Botswana Railways is the national railway of Botswana.-History:BR was created in 1987 when the government of Botswana bought out the Botswana-based sections of the National Railways of Zimbabwe . NRZ had been initially operating the rail system after Botswana had gained independence.Management of...
  
  

See also: Airports in Botswana

Botswana stubs

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• Air Botswana Employees' Union
  Air Botswana Employees' Union
  The Air Botswana Employees' Union is a trade union affiliate of the Botswana Federation of Trade Unions in Botswana....
  
  
• Andrew Sesinyi
  Andrew Sesinyi
  Andrew Sesinyi is the Motswana author of Love on the Rocks . He also worked in the media administration of Botswana. -External links:**...
  
  
• BLNS Countries
  BLNS Countries
  The term is used to describe Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia and Swaziland collectively....
  
  
• Badimo
  Badimo
  Badimo is a name for the indigenous African Traditional Religion of Botswana. Although the CIA Factbook states that six percent of Botswanas are practitioners, in reality a great majority of Botswana follow at least some of the traditions deemed Badimo even if they are strong followers of another...
  
  
• Barolong Seboni
  Barolong Seboni
  Barolong Seboni is a poet and academic from Botswana. He received his BA from the University of Botswana and his Master's Degree from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He has translated Botswana proverbs into English...
  
  
• Botswana Agricultural Marketing Board Workers' Union
  Botswana Agricultural Marketing Board Workers' Union
  The Botswana Agricultural Marketing Board Workers' Union is a trade union affiliate of the Botswana Federation of Trade Unions in Botswana....
  
  
• Botswana Alliance Movement
  Botswana Alliance Movement
  The Botswana Alliance Movement is a progressive political party in Botswana, led by Ephraim Lepetu Setshwaelo. Prior to the 2009 election the party entered into an electoral pact with the Botswana Congress Party. In the 2009 elections the party won a seat in the National Assembly of Botswana for...
  
  
• Botswana Bank Employees' Union
  Botswana Bank Employees' Union
  The Botswana Bank Employee's Union is a trade union affiliate of the Botswana Federation of Trade Unions in Botswana....
  
  
• Botswana Beverages & Allied Workers' Union
• Botswana Central Bank Staff Union
  Botswana Central Bank Staff Union
  The Botswana Central Bank Staff Union is a trade union affiliate of the Botswana Federation of Trade Unions in Botswana....
  
  
• Botswana Commercial & General Workers' Union
• Botswana Congress Party
  Botswana Congress Party
  The Botswana Congress Party is a social-democratic political party in Botswana, considered the third largest party in Botswana.The BCP was founded in 1998 in a split from the Botswana National Front, with most of the BNF's sitting Members of Parliament joining the new party after a leadership...
  
  
• Botswana Construction Workers' Union
  Botswana Construction Workers' Union
  The Botswana Construction Workers' Union is a trade union affiliate of the Botswana Federation of Trade Unions in Botswana....
  
  
• Botswana Democratic Party
  Botswana Democratic Party
  The Botswana Democratic Party is the governing conservative party in Botswana. Its chairman is Daniel Kwelagobe.BDP was shaped by Sir Seretse Khama, who is celebrated for nurturing the economic and political success of Botswana. The party's base is in the traditional Setswana communities, and it...
  
  
• Botswana Diamond Sorters & Valuators' Union
• Botswana Federation of Trade Unions
• Botswana Football Association
  Botswana Football Association
  The Botswana Football Association is the governing body of football in Botswana. It was founded in 1970, and affiliated to FIFA and to CAF in 1976. It organizes national football leagues and the national team....
  
  
• Botswana Housing Corporation Staff Union
  Botswana Housing Corporation Staff Union
  The Botswana Housing Corporation Staff Union is a trade union affiliate of the Botswana Federation of Trade Unions in Botswana....
  
  
• Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis
• Botswana Institute of Development Management Workers' Union
  Botswana Institute of Development Management Workers' Union
  The Botswana Institute of Development Management Workers' Union is a trade union affiliate of the Botswana Federation of Trade Unions in Botswana....
  
  
• Botswana Manufacturing & Packaging Workers' Union
• Botswana Meat Industry Workers' Union
  Botswana Meat Industry Workers' Union
  The Botswana Meat Industry Workers' Union is a trade union affiliate of the Botswana Federation of Trade Unions in Botswana....
  
  
• Botswana Mining Workers' Union
• Botswana National Development Bank Staff Union
  Botswana National Development Bank Staff Union
  The Botswana National Development Bank Staff Union is a trade union affiliate of the Botswana Federation of Trade Unions in Botswana....
  
  
• Botswana National Front
  Botswana National Front
  The Botswana National Front has been the main opposition party in Botswana since the 1969 elections.It achieved its greatest electoral success in the 1994 elections, when it won 37.1% of the vote and 13 of 40 parliamentary seats. A factional conflict in 1998 led to the departure of 11 of these...
  
  
• Botswana People's Party
  Botswana People's Party
  The Botswana People’s Party is a progressive political party in Botswana, led by Bernard Balikani. BPP is the first political movement in Botswana having being formed in 1960. At the last general election, the party won no seats.-History:...
  
  
• Botswana Postal Services Workers' Union
  Botswana Postal Services Workers' Union
  The Botswana Postal Services Workers' Union is a trade union affiliate of the Botswana Federation of Trade Unions in Botswana....
  
  
• Botswana Power Corporation Workers' Union
  Botswana Power Corporation Workers' Union
  The Botswana Power Corporation Workers' Union is a trade union affiliate of the Botswana Federation of Trade Unions in Botswana....
  
  
• Botswana Private Medical & Health Services Workers' Union
• Botswana Railways Amalgamated Workers' Union
  Botswana Railways Amalgamated Workers' Union
  The Botswana Railways Amalgamated Workers' Union is a trade union affiliate of the Botswana Federation of Trade Unions in Botswana....
  
  
• Botswana Saving Bank Employees' Union
  Botswana Saving Bank Employees' Union
  The Botswana Saving Bank Employees' Union is a trade union affiliate of the Botswana Federation of Trade Unions in Botswana....
  
  
• Botswana Telecommunication Employees' Union
  Botswana Telecommunication Employees' Union
  The Botswana Telecommunication Employees' Union is a trade union affiliate of the Botswana Federation of Trade Unions in Botswana....
  
  
• Botswana Vaccine Institute Staff Union
  Botswana Vaccine Institute Staff Union
  The Botswana Vaccine Institute Staff Union is a trade union affiliate of the Botswana Federation of Trade Unions in Botswana....
  
  
• Botswana Wholesale, Furniture & Retail Workers' Union
• Botswana at the 1992 Summer Olympics
  Botswana at the 1992 Summer Olympics
  -Athletics:Men's 400 metres*Camera NterekeMen's 800 metres*Mbiganyi TheeMen's 1500 metres*Bobby GaseitsiweMen's 5000 metres*Zachariah Ditetso* Heat — 13:54.88 Men's Marathon...
  
  
• Botswana at the 1996 Summer Olympics
  Botswana at the 1996 Summer Olympics
  Botswana competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States.-Men:Track and road events-Boxing:-See also:* Botswana at the 1994 Commonwealth Games* Botswana at the 1998 Commonwealth Games-References:**...
  
  
• Botswana at the 2000 Summer Olympics
  Botswana at the 2000 Summer Olympics
  -Athletics:Men's 400m* Johnson Kubisa*Round 1 — 46.97 Men's 800m* Glody Dube*Round 1 — 01:46.17*Semifinal — 01:44.70*Final — 01:46.24 Men's 4x400m Relay...
  
  
• Botswana at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
  Botswana at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
  Botswana was represented at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne by a xx-member strong contingent comprising 21 sportspersons and xx officials.-Silver:* Gable Garenamotse, Athletics, Men's Long Jump-Bronze:...
  
  
• Botswana national football team
  Botswana national football team
  The Botswana national football team, nicknamed 'The Zebras' is the national football team of Botswana and is controlled by the Botswana Football Association. They have never qualified for the World Cup but they have qualified for the 2012 African Nations Cup...
  
  
• Botswana pula
  Botswana pula
  The pula is the currency of Botswana. It has the ISO 4217 code BWP and is subdivided into 100 thebe. Pula literally means "rain" in Setswana, because rain is very scarce in Botswana - home to much of the Kalahari Desert - and therefore valuable. Pula also means "blessing" as rain is considered a...
  
  
• Cuisine of Botswana
• California Molefe
  California Molefe
  California Molefe is a Botswana sprinter runner who won a silver medal in 400 metres at the 2006 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Moscow, becoming the first Botswana athlete to win a major international medal....
  
  
• Caterplus Botswana (Pty) Ltd
• Christianity in Botswana
  Christianity in Botswana
  More than 70% of the population of Botswana is Christian, with most being members of the Anglican, United Congregational Church of Southern Africa, the Methodist Church of Southern Africa, and African independent churches. Anglicans in Botswana are part of the Church of the Province of Central Africa...
  
  
• Dipsy Selolwane
  Dipsy Selolwane
  Diphetogo "Dipsy" Selolwane is a Botswana football midfielder for South African Premier Soccer League club Supersport United. He has played as a striker in Major League Soccer....
  
  
• Education in Botswana
  Education in Botswana
  Secondary education in Botswana is neither free nor compulsory. In 2002, the gross primary enrollment rate was 103 percent, and the net primary enrollment rate was 81 percent. Gross and net enrollment ratios are based on the number of students formally registered in primary school and therefore do...
  
  
• Festus Mogae
  Festus Mogae
  Festus Gontebanye Mogae is a Botswana politician who was President of Botswana from 1998 to 2008. He succeeded Quett Masire as President in 1998 and was reelected in October 2004; after ten years in office, he stepped down in 2008 and was succeeded by Lieutenant General Ian Khama...
  
  
• Gable Garenamotse
  Gable Garenamotse
  Gable Garenamotse is a Botswana long jumper who has won two silver medals at the Commonwealth Games....
  
  
• International Socialist Organization (Botswana)
  International Socialist Organization (Botswana)
  The International Socialists Botswana is a small Botswanian Trotskyist organisation. It is part of the International Socialist Tendency and produces a newspaper called Socialism from Below....
  
  
• Islam in Botswana
  Islam in Botswana
  Islam is the third largest religion in Botswana, following Christianity and indigenous beliefs. Islam came to the country through Muslim immigrants from South Asia, who settled in the area during the British colonial rule. Muslims comprise less than 1 percent of the population...
  
  
• Joseph Legwaila
  Joseph Legwaila
  Joseph Manson John Legwaila is a diplomat and politician from Botswana. Legwaila studied politics, history and international relations at the University of Alberta in Canada and taught there for a time. He was Vice-President of the UN General Assembly for three sessions in total...
  
  
• Kgotla
  Kgotla
  A kgotla is a public meeting, community council or traditional law court of a Botswana village. It is usually headed by the village chief or headman, and community decisions are always arrived at by consensus. Anyone at all is allowed to speak, and no one may interrupt while someone is "having...
  
  
• Khumiso Ikgopoleng
  Khumiso Ikgopoleng
  Khumiso Stephen Ikgopoleng is a boxer from Botswana, who competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. There he was eliminated in the second round of the men's featherweight division by Nigeria's Muideen Ganiyu.Ikgopoleng carried the flag of Botswana at the opening ceremony of the...
  
  
• Lechedzani Luza
  Lechedzani Luza
  Lechedzani Luza is a boxer from Botswana. At the 2002 Commonwealth Games, Luza took the silver medal. He took gold in 2004 at the 2nd Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Gaborone, finally defeating Madagascar's Georges Rakotoarimbelo...
  
  
• Lenyeletse Seretse
  Lenyeletse Seretse
  Lenyeletse Seretse was Vice-President of Botswana from 1980 until his death on 3 January 1983. From Northern Botswana, Seretse was appointed Vice-President to placate his fellow Northerners following the assumption of Southerner Quett Masire to the Presidency.-References:...
  
  
• LGBT rights in Botswana
  LGBT rights in Botswana
  Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender persons in Botswana face legal issues not experienced by non-LGBT citizens. Both female and male same-sex sexual acts are illegal in Botswana.-Laws regarding same-sex sexual acts:...
  
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• Maru a Pula School
  Maru a Pula School
  Maru-a-Pula School is an independent, co-educational, secondary school located in Gaborone, Botswana. Founded in 1972, it has grown from an initial class of 25 students to over 650 today...
  
  
• Mmegi
  Mmegi
  Mmegi is an English-language national newspaper in Botswana. Established in 1984, it is now published daily by Dikgang Publishing House in the capital, Gaborone. , Mmegi is Botswana's only independent newspaper to be published daily....
  
  
• Mompati Merafhe
  Mompati Merafhe
  Lt. Gen. Mompati Sebogodi Merafhe is a Botswana politician, currently serving as Vice-President. He is a retired Lieutenant-General and was Botswana's Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1994 to 2008.-Biography:...
  
  
• Morupule Colliery
  Morupule Colliery
  The Morupule Colliery is a coal mine located in Palapye, Botswana, and owned and operated by Debswana, a partnership between the government of Botswana and De Beers...
  
  
• Morupule Power Station
  Morupule Power Station
  Morupule Power Station is a coal-fired power station near Palapye, Botswana. Run by the Botswana Power Corporation , it comprises four 33 MW air-cooled units...
  
  
• Moses Tito Kachima
  Moses Tito Kachima
  Moses Tito Kachima is a Botswana politician and member of the African Union's Economic, Social and Cultural Council, representing Southern Africa.- References :...
  
  
• Moteane Melamu
  Moteane Melamu
  Moteane Melamu is a writer and academic from Botswana. He is a professor at the University of Botswana.-Bibliography:*Children of the Twilight by Moteane Melamu ISBN 0-86543-678-9*Living and Partly Living by Moteane Melamu ISBN 1-86867-059-7...
  
  
• Mpule Kwelagobe
  Mpule Kwelagobe
  Mpule Keneilwe Kwelagobe of Gaborone, Botswana was crowned Miss Universe in May 1999 in Trinidad and Tobago. Since being crowned Miss Universe 1999, Mpule has been recognized and honored as a human health rights activist, especially for her fight against HIV/AIDS and advocacy for youth and women to...
  
  
• National Amalgamated Central, Local & Parastatal Manual Workers' Union
• Parliament of Botswana
  Parliament of Botswana
  The Parliament of Botswana consists of the President and the National Assembly. In contrast to other Parliamentary systems, the Parliament elects the President directly for a set five year term of office. There are no term limits...
  
  
• Patrick van Rensburg
  Patrick van Rensburg
  Patrick van Rensburg is an African educationalist and former anti-apartheid activist. He founded the Brigades Movement in Botswana, and the Foundation for Education with Production which is active in South Africa, Botswana and Zimbabwe....
  
  
• Permanent Representatives' Committee of the African Union
  Permanent Representatives' Committee of the African Union
  The Permanent Representatives' Committee of the African Union is made up of nominated representatives of member countries by the African Union.Chair - Nigeria1st Vice-Chair - Republic of Congo2nd Vice-Chair - Rwanda3rd Vice-Chair - Libya...
  
  
• Peter Mmusi
  Peter Mmusi
  Peter Mmusi was the Vice-President of Botswana from 3 January 1983 until 1992. He resigned following a Presidential Commission which identified him as taking part in illegal land dealings outside of Gaborone.-References:...
  
  
• Presidents' Day (Botswana)
  Presidents' Day (Botswana)
  Presidents' Day is a two-day holiday in Botswana in July. It appears to be the third Monday and Tuesday of the month....
  
  
• Public holidays in Botswana
  Public holidays in Botswana
  This is a list of public holidays in Botswana....
  
  
• Quett Masire
  Quett Masire
  Quett Ketumile Joni Masire, GCMG was the second President of Botswana for the Botswana Democratic Party from 1980 to 1998. He stepped down and was succeeded by the then Vice-President of Botswana, Festus Mogae, who became the third President of Botswana...
  
  
• Roman Catholicism in Botswana
  Roman Catholicism in Botswana
  The Roman Catholic Church in Botswana is part of the worldwide Roman Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope and curia in Rome.There are about 80,000 Catholics in the country, representing about 5% of the total population....
  
  
• Rural Industry Promotions Company Workers' Union
  Rural Industry Promotions Company Workers' Union
  The Rural Industry Promotions Company Workers' Union is a trade union affiliate of the Botswana Federation of Trade Unions in Botswana....
  
  
• Ruth Williams Khama
  Ruth Williams Khama
  Ruth Williams Khama, Lady Khama was the wife of Botswana's first president Sir Seretse Khama, the Paramount Chief of its Bamangwato tribe. Lady Khama was a former WAAF ambulance driver from Blackheath, London. She met the then Prince Seretse Khama while he was attending law school in England and...
  
  
• Seretse Ian Khama
• Setshele I
  Setshele I
  Setshele I a Motswasele "Rra Mokonopi", ruler of the baKwena people of Botswana 1831-1892 , also known as Sechele.-See also:* Rulers of baKwêna...
  
  
• Thomas Tlou
  Thomas Tlou
  Thomas Tlou was a Botswana academic and historian, and former representative of Botswana at the United Nations.Tlou studied at Luther College, Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the United States...
  
  
• Tlhalosang Molapisi
  Tlhalosang Molapisi
  Tlhalosang Molapisi is a sprinter from Botswana. Competing mostly over 100 metres, his personal best is 10.44 seconds....
  
  
• Trans-Kalahari Highway
• Tswana music
  Tswana music
  The Tswana are an African ethnic group, mostly resident in South Africa. A minority of this group is found in Botswana and forms the major ethnic group there...
  
  
• Unity Dow
  Unity Dow
  Unity Dow is a judge, human rights activist, and writer from Botswana. She came from a rural background that tended toward traditional values of the African kind...
  
  
• University of Botswana Non-Academic Staff Union
• Westwood International School
  Westwood International School
  Westwood International School is an English medium international school in Gaborone, Botswana. It was founded in 1988 with sponsorship from the American and British governments and in collaboration with the . US, British and South African teaching materials are employed.In 2008-9 there were 550...
  
  

See also: Botswana geography stubs