Republic of Botswana
África Austral
Savanna · Diamond · Stable
Botswana went from one of the world's poorest countries at independence in 1966 to an upper-middle-income economy, largely through transparent diamond revenues — the Jwaneng mine is the richest diamond mine on Earth by value.
Más allá de la capital, las principales ciudades son Francistown, Maun — cada una un centro de cultura regional, economía e historia. Gaborone was built from nothing in 1964, three years before independence, on the edge of the South African border — the choice of a new site rather than an existing town reflected the government's desire for a capital uncontaminated by colonial-era racial geography — and today its diamond-funded growth has made it one of southern Africa's most stable and prosperous cities.
Los principales idiomas hablados son inglés, Setswana, que reflejan el patrimonio cultural del país y abren puertas a una amplia comunidad internacional. Internacionalmente, Botswana se contacta mediante el código +267. Botswana's Tswana tradition of Kgotla — a public assembly open to all adults, historically held under a tree where community decisions were debated until consensus — was incorporated into the country's post-independence governance as a formal consultative mechanism, making it one of Africa's earliest examples of indigenous democratic institution integration.
Botswana comparte sus fronteras con Sudáfrica, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Namibia. El tráfico rodado circula por la izquierda, en consonancia con la convención de
La vida económica y cotidiana se rige por la zona horaria de UTC+02:00, alineando el país con sus vecinos regionales.
Isaac Makwala's 200m and 400m double at the 2017 World Athletics Championships in London — achieved after he was controversially barred from the 200m heats due to illness, reinstated after a solo time trial, and then ran his semi-final and final within hours — produced one of the championships' most dramatic performances and Botswana's most celebrated individual athletic moment.
The Okavango Delta — an inland river that flows from Angola into the Kalahari Desert and simply stops, spreading into 15,000 square kilometres of seasonal floodplain without ever reaching the sea — creates one of the world's most biodiverse ecosystems in the middle of southern Africa's driest region, a hydrological accident that produced a UNESCO World Heritage Site.