BOTSWANA

BotswanaLocation: Southern Africa
Capital: Gaborone
Area: 581 730 km2
Population: 2 475 000
Official language: English
Other spoken languages: Setswana, Kalanga, Sekgalagadi, Shekgalagari, Yeyi, Hambukushu and more

Ethnic groups: Tswana, Kalanga, Basarwa (San), Kgalagadi, White Batswana, and more
Currency: BWP (Botswana Pula) (1 USD = 14.04 BWP; 1 EUR = 15.97 BWP)
Basic facts: Multiparty republic.

Travel tips:

  1. Botswana is one of the most politically stable countries in Africa and one of the continent’s best-known wilderness destinations.
  2. Much of Botswana is occupied by the Kalahari, which gives the country a strong dryland and desert character.
  3. The Okavango Delta is one of the world’s most unusual inland wetland systems and the most famous landscape in Botswana.
  4. The Makgadikgadi system preserves one of southern Africa’s great terminal basin landscapes of pans and seasonal wetlands.
  5. Botswana is one of the best places in Africa for large wildlife, especially in the Okavango, Chobe, and Kalahari-related conservation landscapes.

10 best destinations in Botswana:

Gaborone: The capital and the main administrative gateway to Botswana.
Okavango Delta: The country’s most famous landscape and one of the world’s largest inland deltas.
Moremi Game Reserve: The protected core of the Okavango Delta.
Chobe National Park: One of Africa’s great wildlife parks, especially famous for elephants and the Chobe River.
Makgadikgadi Pans: A vast terminal basin landscape of pans, salt flats, and seasonal wetlands.
Nxai Pan: One of the best-known pan landscapes in Botswana.
Maun: The main gateway town for the Okavango Delta.
Boteti River: The weakened downstream continuation of the Okavango system beyond the delta.
Tsodilo Hills: One of Botswana’s most important cultural and archaeological sites.
Central Kalahari Game Reserve: One of the largest protected dryland wilderness areas in Africa.

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