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Phillip Gaonwe Matante International Airport (IATA: FRW, ICAO: FBPM), also known as Francistown International Airport, serves Francistown, Botswana. The public airport, which caters to both commercial and national military's aircraft, is on the western edge of the city. The airport was named after Philip Matante. [2]
It is located about 100.6 kilometres (62.5 mi) by road, southwest of Bulawayo, the nearest large city. [3] Plumtree sits on the main road between Bulawayo in Zimbabwe and Francistown in Botswana, about 94 kilometres (58 mi), further southwest from Plumtree. [ 4 ]
The A3 highway in Botswana is an 816-kilometre-long (507 mi) road that runs from Francistown (where it is called Gemmel Drive) through Nata, Gweta and Maun to end at a junction with the A2 road just after Ghanzi. [1]
Rail-road bridge 54+85+5x129+85+54: A33 road Mosetse–Kazungula–Livingstone Railway Zambezi. ... Roads in Botswana; Rail transport in Botswana; Geography of Botswana;
Francistown, 4 km from city centre: To: Motopi outskirts where it joins back with the A3 road: Location; Country: Botswana: Major cities: Francistown, Orapa, Rakops or Tsienyane, Motopi: Highway system; Transport in Botswana
The A7 Road picks up from Botswana's A1 Road at Plumtree border post and runs eastwards for 110 km to Bulawayo.Driving from Bulawayo to South Africa via Botswana the A7 Road crosses the border into Botswana joining the A1 road which continues south through Francistown, then Gaborone to Ramatlabama at the border with South Africa.
Francistown is the second-largest city in Botswana, with a population of about 103,417 and 147,122 inhabitants for its agglomeration at the 2022 census. [4] It is located in eastern Botswana, about 400 kilometres (250 mi) north-northeast from the capital, Gaborone.
Botswana boasts a GDP (purchasing power parity) per capita of about $18,825 per year as of 2015, which is one of the highest in Africa. [1] Its high gross national income (by some estimates the fourth-largest in Africa) gives the country a modest standard of living and the highest Human Development Index of continental Sub-Saharan Africa .