Map of Botswana

Botswana is located in Africa. Its territory lies in the southern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 22.0° S, 24.0° E. Botswana is landlocked, enclosed on every side by its 4 neighbours — Namibia, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe — with no coastline of its own. Within Africa, a continent of 54 countries bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean, Botswana is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Landlocked Botswana is surrounded by the following 4 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Botswana covers about 582,000 km² (224,711 sq mi). That makes it the 46th-largest country in the world by area and the 22nd-largest in Africa, larger by area than 32 of the continent’s 54 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 2,359,609, the 144th-largest in the world and the 44th-largest in Africa, accounting for about 0.2% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Botswana has an average population density of about 4 people per km². Among the 54 countries of Africa it stands 44th by population and 22nd by area.

The seat of government is Gaborone, and the official currency is the Botswana pula (BWP, P), and the main official languages are English and Tswana. Traffic drives on the left, and the country observes the time zone UTC+02:00.

Botswana carries the ISO country codes BW and BWA, dials on the international calling code +267 and uses the .bw internet domain.

Botswana shares its land borders with 4 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are South Africa (capital Pretoria, about 63,100,945 people), Zambia (capital Lusaka, about 19,693,423 people), Zimbabwe (capital Harare, about 17,073,087 people) and Namibia (capital Windhoek, about 3,022,401 people).

By area, Botswana is larger than 1 of these neighbours and smaller than 3 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 22.0° S, 24.0° E and opens at zoom level 5, framing Botswana within Africa. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Gaborone. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Botswana lies about 2,442 km from the equator, in the southern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. As a landlocked country, every direction from its borders leads onto neighbouring land rather than the open sea.

Botswana keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+02:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +02:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Botswana pula (BWP, P).

The official languages are English and Tswana, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the left-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +267 and websites commonly use the .bw internet domain.

In short, Botswana is a landlocked country in Africa, sharing land borders with 4 countries. Its capital is Gaborone. Botswana has a population of about 2,359,609 and covers around 582,000 km² (224,711 sq mi), ranking it 144th in the world by population and 46th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Botswana.

The flag of Botswana has a light blue field with a white-edged black horizontal band across its center.

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