Botswana
Names and codes: GeoNames, CC BY 4.0 · Boundary: Natural Earth, public domain · Refresh date not recorded · Sources and licenses
Codes and identifiers
- ISO alpha-2
- BW
- ISO alpha-3
- BWA
- ISO numeric
- 072
- FIPS 10-4
- BC
- GeoNames ID
- 933860
Key facts
- Capital
- Gaborone
- Area
- 600,370 km²
- Population
- 2,254,126
- Currency
- Pula (BWP)
- Calling code
- +267
- Top-level domain
- .bw
- Official languages
- en-BW,tn-BW
Continent
- Name
- Africa
- Code
- AF
- In this dataset
- 58 countries
Location
- Latitude
- -22
- Longitude
- 24
- Min latitude
- -26.891794127999987
- Min longitude
- 19.978345988000115
- Max latitude
- -17.781807555999947
- Max longitude
- 29.350073689000055
Boundary
The API call behind this page
Request
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
"https://geosearch.dev/v1/countries/BW?fields=iso_code,iso3_code,name,capital,population,area_sq_km,currency_code,continent_code"Response
{
"data": {
"area_sq_km": 600370,
"capital": "Gaborone",
"continent_code": "AF",
"currency_code": "BWP",
"iso3_code": "BWA",
"iso_code": "BW",
"name": "Botswana",
"population": 2254126
}
}Formatted for reading. The API returns the same JSON on one line.
Other endpoints for this country
/v1/countries/BW/regions/v1/cities?country=BW/v1/postal-codes?country=BW/v1/timezones?country=BW
Name in other languages
- Arabic
- بوتسوانا
- Chinese
- 博茨瓦纳
- English
- Botswana
- French
- Botswana
- German
- Botswana
- Hindi
- बोत्स्वाना
- Italian
- Botswana
- Japanese
- ボツワナ
- Korean
- 보츠와나
- Portuguese
- Botsuana
- Russian
- Ботсвана
- Spanish
- Botsuana
- Total language variants
- 143
The API returns any of them with ?lang=.
Time zones
| IANA ID | UTC offset | DST offset |
|---|---|---|
| Africa/Gaborone | UTC+02:00 | UTC+02:00 |
First-level administrative regions
- South East District
- Gaborone
- Kweneng District
- Central District
- Southern District
- City of Francistown
- North East District
- North West District
- Kgatleng District
- Selibe Phikwe
- Kgalagadi District
- Ghanzi District
- Lobatse
- Chobe District
- Jwaneng
- Sowa Town
16 of 16 shown, largest first
Largest cities
| City | Population |
|---|---|
| Gaborone | 246,325 |
| Francistown | 103,417 |
| Mogoditshane | 88,004 |
| Maun | 85,350 |
| Molepolole | 74,861 |
| Serowe | 55,676 |
| Tlokweng | 55,508 |
| Palapye | 52,636 |
| Mochudi | 50,321 |
| Mahalapye | 48,431 |
Coverage in this dataset
- Cities
- 1,820
- First-level regions
- 16
- Postal codes
- 0
- Name languages
- 143
- Boundary polygon
- Yes
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