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Gaborone aerial. Gaborone is situated at 24°39′29″S25°54′44″E / 24.65806°S 25.91222°E between Kgale and Oodi Hills, on the Notwane River in the south-eastern corner of Botswana, and 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) from the South African border. [13] The city lies at an elevation of 1,010 metres (3,310 ft) above sea level.
Botswana. / 24.6583°S 25.9083°E / -24.6583; 25.9083. Botswana, [ c] officially the Republic of Botswana, [ d] is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Botswana is topographically flat, with approximately 70 per cent of its territory being the Kalahari Desert. It is bordered by South Africa to the south and southeast, Namibia to the ...
History of Botswana. Pop. The history of Gaborone began with archaeological evidence in the area around Gaborone dating back to 400 BCE, [ 8] and the first written accounts of Gaborone are from the earliest European settlers in the 19th century. Since the 1960s, when Botswana gained its independence from Britain and Gaborone became the capital ...
t. e. The history of Botswana encompasses the region's ancient and tribal history, its colonisation as the Bechuanaland Protectorate, and the present-day Republic of Botswana. The first modern humans to inhabit Botswana were the San people, and agriculture first developed approximately 2,300 years ago.
Map of Botswana. Selibe Phikwe. Kanye. Mahalapye. The following is a list of cities and towns or villages in Botswana with population of over 1,000 citizens in the year 2022. [1] [2] Capitals of the administrative divisions (cities, towns or districts) are shown in boldface. Rank.
Harrigan, Walter et al. Report of the judicial enquiry Re Seretse Khama of the Bamangwato tribe (1 December 1949), reproduced in Botswana Notes and Records, Vol 17 (1985), pp. 53–64. Mogalakwe, Monageng (2006). "How Britain underdeveloped Bechuanaland protectorate: a brief critique of the political economy of colonial Botswana" (PDF).
UNODC calculated a rate of 6.9 in 2010. [ 9] UNODC (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime) reported a global average intentional homicide rate of 6.2 per 100,000 population for 2012 (in their report titled "Global Study on Homicide 2013"). [ 10][ 11] In the 2019 edition, the global rate was estimated at 6.1 per 100,000 for 2017.
Botswana is a landlocked country located in Southern Africa, north of South Africa. Botswana occupies an area of 581,730 square kilometres (224,610 sq mi), of which 566,730 km 2 (218,820 sq mi) are land. Botswana has land boundaries of combined length 4,347.15 kilometres (2,701.19 mi), of which the constituent boundaries are shared with Namibia ...