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Kgagodi is an exposed meteorite crater in Botswana, roughly 7 kilometres south of the village of Kgagodi, where it got its name. [1]It is 3.5 km in diameter and the age is roughly less than 180 million years.
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.
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.
Molepolole is a large village in Kweneng District, Botswana.. The people who reside in Molepolole are called Bakwena, who are one of the eight major tribes in Botswana.The Bakwena Kgosi (Chief), Sebele I was among the three chiefs who went to England to seek protection from the British in the colonial era. [4]
The Tsodilo Hills (Tswana: Lefelo la Tsodilo) are a UNESCO World Heritage Site (WHS), consisting of rock art, rock shelters, depressions, and caves in Botswana, Southern Africa. It gained its WHS listing in 2001 because of its unique religious and spiritual significance to local peoples, as well as its unique record of human settlement over ...
Sebele I was a chief of the Kwena —a major Tswana tribe (morafe) in modern-day Botswana— who ruled from 1892 until his death in 1911. [4] During his lifetime, he resisted the 1885 Bechuanaland Protectorate [5] as well as the control of his domains by Cecil Rhodes' British South African Company, which was administering, by a royal charter signed in October 1889, his homeland in the ...
The Makgadikgadi Salt Pans in Botswana mark the remnants of the lake today. They are one of the most important breeding sites in Southern Africa for lesser and greater flamingos Lake Makgadikgadi ( Setswana : Letsha la Makgadikgadi , [lɪt͜sʰa la makχʰadiˈkχʰaːdi] ) was a paleolake that existed in what is now the Kalahari Desert in ...
Lesoma is a village in North-West District of Botswana. It is located in the eastern part of the district, which before 2001 formed Chobe District and is close to town of Kasane . Lesoma has a primary school, and the population was 410 in 2001 census.