Botswana
Republic o Botswana Lefatshe la Botswana (Tswana) | |
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Motto: "Pula" (Tswana) "Rain" | |
 Location o Botswana (daurk blue) in the African Union (licht blue) | |
| Caipital and largest city | Gaborone 24°39.5′S 25°54.5′E / 24.6583°S 25.9083°E |
| Offeecial leids | Inglis |
| Ethnic groups | |
| Releegion | Christianity |
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| Govrenment | Pairlamentar republic |
• Preses | Mokgweetsi Masisi[1] |
| Slumber Tsogwane | |
| Legislatur | Naitional Assembly |
| Unthirldom frae the Unitit Kinrick | |
• Established (Constitution) | 30 September 1966 |
| Aurie | |
• Total | 581,730 km2 (224,610 sq mi) (48t) |
• Water (%) | 2.6 |
| Population | |
• 2016 estimate | 2,250,260[2] (145t) |
• 2011 census | 1,914,228[3] |
• Density | 3.7/km2 (9.6/sq mi) (231st) |
| GDP (PPP) | 2019 estimate |
• Total | $44.3 billion[4] |
• Per capita | $18,653.68[4] |
| GDP (nominal) | 2019 estimate |
• Tot | $19.651 billion[4] |
• Per capita | $8,263.22[4] |
| Gini (2015) |  53.3[5]heich |
| HDI (2017) |  0.717[6]heich · 101st |
| Currency | Pula (BWP) |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (Central Africae Time) |
| Date format | DD/MM/YYYY |
| Drivin side | caur |
| Cawin code | +267 |
| ISO 3166 code | BW |
| Internet TLD | .bw |
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Botswana (offeecially the Republic o Botswana (Tswana: Lefatshe la Botswana), is a laundlocked kintra locatit in Soothren Africae. Umwhile the Breetish pertectorate o Bechuanaland, Botswana adoptit its new name efter acomin independent within the Commonweel on 30 September 1966.[7] Syne then, it haes mainteened a strang tradeetion o stable representative democracy, wi a consistent record o uninterruptit democratic elections an the best perceived corruption rankin in Africae syne at least 1998.[8]
Botswana is topografically flat, wi up tae 70 percent o its territory bein the Kalahari Desert. It is mairchit bi Sooth Africae tae the sooth an sootheast, Namibie tae the wast an north, an Zimbabwe tae the northeast. Its mairch wi Zambie tae the north near Kazungula is puirly defined but is, at maist, a few hunder metres lang.[9]
A mid-sized kintra o juist ower 2 million fowk, Botswana is ane o the maist sparsely populatit kintras in the warld. Aroond 10 percent o the population lives in the caipital an lairgest ceety, Gaborone. Umwhile ane o the puirest kintras in the warld—wi a GDP per capita o aboot US$70 per year in the late 1960s—Botswana haes syne transformed itsel intae ane o the warld's festest-growin economies. The economy is dominated by minin, kye, an tourism. Botswana blowsts a GDP (purchasin pouer parity) per capita o aboot $18,825 per year as o 2015[update], that is ane o the heichest in Africae.[10] Its heich gross naitional income (bi some estimates the fowert-lairgest in Africae) gies the kintra a relatively heich staundart o leevin an the heichest Human Development Index o continental Sub-Saharan Africae.[11]
Botswana is a member o the African Union, the Soothren African Development Commonty, the Commonweel o Naitions, an the Unitit Naitions. The kintra haes been amang the haurdest hit bi the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Despite the success in programmes tae mak treatments available tae thae infectit, an tae eddicate the populace in general aboot hou tae stap the spread o HIV/AIDS, the nummer o fowk wi AIDS rose frae 290,000 in 2005 tae 320,000 in 2013.[12]:A20 As o 2014, Botswana haes the third-heichest prevalence rate for HIV/AIDS, wi reuchly 20% o the adult population bein infectit.[13]
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ "Masisi to Lead Botswana as Khama Steps Down After a Decade". www.bloomberg.com. Archived frae the original on 1 Apryle 2018. Retrieved 31 Mairch 2018.
- ↑ "World Population Prospects: The 2017 Revision". ESA.UN.org (custom data acquired via website). United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division. Retrieved 10 September 2017.
- ↑ 2011 Population & Housing Census Preliminary Results Brief
- ↑ a b c d "IMF Country Specific Data". Retrieved 10 August 2019.
- ↑ "GINI index (World Bank estimate)". World Bank. Archived frae the original on 13 December 2017. Retrieved 20 Apryle 2019.
- ↑ "2018 Human Development Report". United Nations Development Programme. 2018. Archived frae the original on 14 September 2018. Retrieved 14 September 2018.
- ↑ "Bechuanaland was the former name of Botswana". generalknowledgefacts.com. Archived frae the original on 23 Mairch 2015. Retrieved 20 Februar 2018.
- ↑ "overview of CPI indices". Transparency International. Archived frae the original on 14 Apryle 2020. Retrieved 8 Januar 2018.
- ↑ Darwa, P. Opoku (2011). Kazungula Bridge Project (PDF). African Development Fund. p. Appendix IV. Archived frae the original (PDF) on 14 November 2012. Retrieved 4 Mey 2012.
- ↑ "Botswana". The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency. 2014. Archived frae the original on 15 October 2015. Retrieved 16 Apryle 2014.
- ↑ Gross naitional income (GNI) – Nations Online Project. Nationsonline.org. Retrieved on 27 October 2016.
- ↑ "The Gap Report" (PDF). Geneva: UN AIDS. 2014. Archived frae the original (PDF) on 20 Juin 2016. Retrieved 21 Juin 2016. Unknown parameter
|deadurl=ignored (help) - ↑ "HIV and Aids in Botswana". Avert International Aids Charity. Retrieved 21 Juin 2016.
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