Category: Cities and Towns

Serowe is among the largest villages in southern Africa and the traditional centre of the Bangwato people, founded by Kgosi Khama III as their new capital after water ran short at Old Palapye. It is the birthplace of Sir Seretse…

Francistown is Botswana's second city, sitting in the northeast where the Tati and Inchwe rivers meet near the Shashe, around 400 kilometres from Gaborone and 90 from the Zimbabwe border. It grew out of southern Africa's first gold rush and…

Gaborone is Botswana's capital, a planned city built from almost nothing in the years around independence and now home to somewhere over 230,000 people in the city proper. It sits in the southeast near the South African border, and it…

Ghanzi is a cattle town on the northern rim of the Kalahari in western Botswana, calling itself the Capital of the Kalahari and functioning as the crossroads of the Trans-Kalahari Highway between Namibia, Maun and Gaborone. Its farms supply around…

Kasane sits in Botswana's far northeastern corner on the south bank of the Chobe River, minutes from the entrance to Chobe National Park and close to the point where four countries almost meet. It is the administrative centre of the…

Maun is Botswana's tourism capital and the gateway to the Okavango Delta, a dusty, spread-out town on the Thamalakane River where almost every safari to the Delta, Moremi and the Kalahari begins. Its airport ranks among the busiest in southern…