Francistown
Francistown is a city in the east of Botswana, near the border with Zimbabwe. In our division of Botswana into regions, it is in Southeast Botswana.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Photo: Pavel Špindler, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Elziki, Public domain.
Francistown
- Type: City with 100,000 residents
- Description: city in northern Botswana
- Category: locality
- Location: Southeast, Botswana, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-21.1664° or 21° 9' 59" southLongitude
27.5025° or 27° 30' 9" eastPopulation
100,000Elevation
989 metres (3,245 feet)IATA airport code
FRWUnited Nations Location Code
BW FRWOpen Location Code
5GC9RGM3+F2OpenStreetMap ID
node 240504014OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
933778Wikidata ID
Q165422Francistown Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Dorp
- Afrikaans: Francistown
- Akan: Francistown
- Arabic: Francistown
- Arabic: فرانسيس
- Arabic: فرانسيستاون
- Armenian: Ֆրանսիսթաուն
- Asturian: Francistown
- Azerbaijani: Frensistaun
- Basque: Francistown
- Belarusian: Франсістаўн
- Bengali: ফ্রাঞ্চিসটাউন
- Breton: Francistown
- Bulgarian: Франсистаун
- Catalan: Francistown
- Cebuano: Francistown
- Chinese: 弗朗西斯敦
- Chinese: 镇
- Croatian: Francistown
- Czech: Francistown
- Danish: Francistown
- Dutch: Francistown
- English: Ftown
- Esperanto: Francistown
- Estonian: Francistown
- Finnish: Francistown
- French: Francistown
- Georgian: ფრანსისთაუნი
- German: Francistown
- Greek: Φράνσισταουν
- Gujarati: ફ્રાન્સિસટાઉન
- Hebrew: פרנסיסטאון
- Hindi: फ्रांसिसटाउन
- Ido: Francistown
- Indonesian: Francistown
- Italian: Francistown
- Japanese: フランシスタウン
- Kannada: ಫ್ರಾನ್ಸಿಸ್ಟೌನ್
- Korean: 프랜시스타운
- Latvian: Frensistauna
- Latvian: Frānsistauna
- Lithuanian: Frensistaunas
- Macedonian: Франсистаун
- Malay: Francistown
- Marathi: फ्रॅन्सिसटाउन
- Northern Frisian: Francistown
- Norwegian: Francistown
- Norwegian Bokmål: Francistown
- Persian: فرانسیستوون، بوتسوانا
- Polish: Francistown
- Portuguese: Francistown
- Romanian: Francistown
- Russian: Франсистаун
- Serbian: Франсистаун
- Shona: Francistown
- Shona: town
- Sinhala: ෆ්රැන්සිස් ටවුන්
- Sinhala: ෆ්රැන්සිස්ටවුන්
- South Azerbaijani: فرانسیستوون، بوتسوانا
- Spanish: Francistown
- Swedish: Francistown
- Tamil: பிரான்சிஸ்நகரம்
- Tamil: பிரான்சீஸ்நகரம்
- Telugu: ఫ్రాన్సిస్టౌన్
- Telugu: ఫ్రాన్సిస్ పట్టణం
- Thai: แฟรนซิสทาวน์
- Tswana: Francistown
- Tswana: Toropo
- Turkish: Francistown
- Ukrainian: Франсистаун
- Ukrainian: Франсістаун
- Urdu: فرانسس ٹاؤن
- Veps: Fransistaun
- Vietnamese: Francistown
- Waray (Philippines): Francistown
- Zulu: Francistown, Butswana
- Zulu: idolobha
- Френсістаун
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- Shashe-MookeVillage, 14 km west
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Francistown. Photo: Pavel Špindler, CC BY-SA 3.0.