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Musicians and music groups from Botswana This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
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]
She initiated research projects in support of Botswana, Sri Lanka and China while carrying out her own research on Norwegian agriculture. [ 2 ] From 1967 to 1973, Tschudi was editor-in-chief of the Norwegian Journal of Geography (Norsk geografisk tidsskrift) and in 1977 was elected a member of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences.
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 ...
The Botswana Hindu Charities Trust built the Sri Balaji Temple in Gaborone in the classical Dravidian architectural style. The temple is one of its kind in the Southern African region and become a cultural attraction in Gaborone, after earning the people's admiration for the architectural and the sculptural beauty.
The Sri Lankan diaspora are Sri Lankan emigrants and expatriates from Sri Lanka that reside in a foreign country. An estimate in 2013 by the United Nations concluded that the diaspora numbered around three million, with large concentrations in Europe, Middle East, East Asia, Australia and North America.
In the Vedda people of Sri Lanka it reaches its highest frequency of 13.33% (subclade U7a). It is speculated that large-scale immigration carried these mitochondrial haplogroups into India. [26] Chaubey states that "considerable number of maternal lineages of Sri Lanka is shared with India, more precisely with southern part of India." [27]
Selebi-Phikwe (also spelt Selibe Phikwe) is a mining town located in the Central District of Botswana. It had a population of 42,488 in 2022. [ 2 ] The town is an administrative district, separate from the surrounding Central District.