Around 38 per cent of its territory is protected land, one of the highest proportions anywhere.
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Botswana
Republic of Botswana
Africa
ยท Southern Africa
0Population
582Kkmยฒ of land
$7.96KGDP / person
GaboroneCapital
- ISO codes
- BW ยท BWA
- Density
- 4 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- English, Tswana
- Currency
- Botswana pula (BWP)
- Dial code
- +267
- Internet domain
- .bw
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Landlocked
- Map centre
- 22.1030ยฐ S, 24.1790ยฐ E
- Demonym
- Motswana
- UN region
- Southern Africa
- Economy
- Developing region
- Income group
- Upper middle income
- Total GDP
- $18.34B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 4
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By the numbers
How Botswana stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
146th
of 242 ยท 0.03% of world population
Land area
48th
of 242 ยท 0.39% of world land
GDP per person
117th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
219th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Botswana
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 2,303,697 people, the 146th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly one in 3,332 of everyone alive.
Covers 582,000 kmยฒ, making it the 48th largest country here - about 6.3 times the size of Portugal.
Population density is about 4 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Gaborone, at 24.65ยฐ S, 25.91ยฐ E, with a metropolitan population of about 208,411.
Shares land borders with 4 countries: Namibia, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Landlocked: every route to the sea crosses at least one border.
Keeps a single time zone, Africa/Gaborone.
The currency is the Botswana pula (BWP, symbol P).
Has 2 official languages: English and Tswana.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Africa/Gaborone
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UTC+02:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
1
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Gaborone
South-East
24.6463ยฐ S, 25.9119ยฐ E
208.41K
2
Francistown
Central
21.1700ยฐ S, 27.5000ยฐ E
89.98K
3
Mahalapye
Central
23.1000ยฐ S, 26.8200ยฐ E
50.74K
4
Serowe
Central
22.3900ยฐ S, 26.7100ยฐ E
48.57K
๐งญ Worth the trip
Okavango Delta
Wildlife
A river that never reaches the sea, flooding the Kalahari instead and pulling in wildlife from across the desert.
Land neighbours
4 countries share a border with Botswana.