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[7] [8] Botswana experiences low rainfall and the rainfall patterns change which negatively affects the agricultural sector. Due to the state of rainfall in Botswana, which is very unreliable, there has been a reduction in hectares ploughed. Heavy rains wash away the topsoil and seeds during the ploughing season and this results in very low yields.
June – Botswana is connected to Fiber-optic Internet. [1]: xliii 9 August – Botswana wins its first Olympic medal when Nijel Amos wins a silver in the men's 800 metres. [1]: xliii 9 August – The Diamond Trading Center is established. [1]: xliii 16 October – The Botswana High Court affirms that women have the right to inherit property.
Botswana, [c] officially the Republic of Botswana, [d] is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Botswana is topographically flat, with approximately 70 percent of its territory part of the Kalahari Desert. It is bordered by South Africa to the south and southeast, Namibia to the west and north, Zambia to the north, and Zimbabwe to the northeast.
Botswana has land boundaries of combined length 4,347.15 kilometres (2,701.19 mi), of which the constituent boundaries are shared with Namibia, for 1,544 km (959 mi); South Africa 1,969 km (1,223 mi); Zimbabwe, 834 km (518 mi) and Zambia, 0.15 km (0.093 mi). Much of the population of Botswana is concentrated in the eastern part of the country.
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.
Botswana is around 90% covered in savanna, varying from shrub savanna in the southwest in the dry areas to tree savanna consisting of trees and grass in the wetter areas. [1] Even under the hot conditions of the Kalahari Desert , many species survive; in fact the country has more than 2500 species of plants and 650 species of trees. [ 2 ]
Gaborone (UK: / ˌ ɡ æ b ə ˈ r oʊ n i, ˌ h æ b-/ GAB-ə-ROH-nee, HAB-, [8] [9] US: / ˌ ɡ ɑː b ə ˈ r oʊ n i,-n eɪ / GAH-bə-ROH-nee, -nay, [8] [10] Tswana: [χabʊˈrʊnɛ]) is the capital and largest city of Botswana, with a population of 246,325 based on the 2022 census, [4] about 10% of the total population of Botswana. [11]
The storm killed at least 4,333 people in the country, becoming the deadliest storm to hit Africa in recorded history. [70] [71] In September 1969, a cyclone in the Mediterranean Sea killed nearly 600 people in Tunisia and Libya. [72] Cyclones from the Indian Ocean can strike the Horn of Africa.