Quick Botswana Geography Stats

Botswana is…
-roughly the size of Texas or France
-totally landlocked
-bordered by South Africa, Namibia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe
-84% covered by the Kalahari Desert.
-home to 1.85 million people (yes, that’s fewer than 2 million people in the whole country)

Capital is Gaborone (HA-ba-ro-nee; pop. around 250,000), in the southeast, only a few hours from Johannesburg by road.
Other main towns include Francistown (105,000), Lobatse (60,000), Selebi-Phikwe (50,000), Ghanzi, Mahalapye, Maun, and Kasane.