Botswana
Botswana (officially Republic of Botswana) is a country in Southern Africa, with its capital at Gaborone, and is home to roughly 2.5M people.
Its official languages are English, Tswana; the currency in circulation is Botswana pula (P); people from here are called Motswana.
> INTEL_
> NOTABLE_
- »The Okavango Delta is one of the very few large river deltas that never reaches the sea, emptying instead into the Kalahari.
- »Roughly a fifth of the country is set aside for wildlife.
> THE OUTLINE_
Botswana straddles the Tropic of Capricorn.
> BORDERS_
Botswana touches four neighbours: Namibia to the west, South Africa to the south, Zambia to the northeast and Zimbabwe to the northeast. Directions run from one centre to the other.
> THE CAPITAL_
Gaborone was built almost from nothing in the mid-1960s for independence, because the colony had been administered from Mafikeng, a town outside its own borders in South Africa.
> SCALE_
581,016 km² (224,331 sq mi), 46th largest of 198 countries and territories on file, almost exactly the size of Morocco.
Population 2,521,139, 142nd of 198 on file. That averages 4.3 per km² (11 per sq mi).
> THE FLAG_
The black stripe bordered in white on a light blue field stands for racial harmony; the blue is rain, precious enough that the national motto and the currency are both named for it (pula means rain).