Botswana: getting your bearings with Gaborone as a starting point
Botswana is in southern Africa and is landlocked. Gaborone, English, Tswana and the pula offer useful starting points for planning.
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Gaborone is the capital of Botswana and a reference point for finding your bearings in the country. Available information places it in the southeast, but does not describe its neighbourhoods or services.
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- Capital of Botswana
- Located in the southeast of the country
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- Botswana · Wikidata · CC0 1.0 · Wikidata · Q52345641
- Botswana · World Countries — mledoze · ODbL 1.0 · World countries dataset by mledoze and contributors · ODbL 1.0
- Gaborone · GeoNames · Datos geográficos bajo CC BY 4.0; requiere atribución a GeoNames. · Fuente: GeoNames
- Gaborone · GeoNames · Datos geográficos bajo CC BY 4.0; requiere atribución a GeoNames. · Fuente: GeoNames
- Gaborone, Botswana · OpenStreetMap · ODbL 1.0; atribución y obligación de compartir bases derivadas. · Fuente: OpenStreetMap
- Botswana · World Bank Open Data · CC BY 4.0 · World Bank
- Gaborone · Wikidata · CC0 1.0 · Wikidata · Q3919
- Botswana · DBpedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · DBpedia
- Place identification and coordinates
Profile updated: 09/10/2026