Map of Botswana, Southern Africa - Area 581 730 square kilometres.
Capital City: Gaborone
Like Namibia Botswana is a sparsly populated country - with barely two peple per square kilometre. Most of the population live in the eastern districts where the railway between South Africa and Zimbabwe give additional ecconomical incentive. The population is culturally similar, mostly Tswana of the Sotho sub-group, although there are non-Tswana minorities such as the Khoisan, of the Kalahari and groups in the northern part related to the people of Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Rainfall is too low, and too unpredictable for a strong agricultural sector, but there is significant cattle farming. The north, where the Okavango swamps are a feature, is a tropical paradise and an ecological treasure of wild creatures.
