Gaborone
Gaborone is the capital of Botswana. It is in the south of the country, near the border to South Africa. Generally it is a clean, safe and functioning city that is spreading ever further outwards into a suburban sprawl that today measures about 15 km from east to west.Photo: Njengabenngugi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Botswana National Stadium
Photo: US Army Africa, CC BY 2.0.
The Botswana National Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Gaborone, Botswana.
High commission of South Africa in Botswana
Photo: Shosholoza, CC BY-SA 3.0.
High commission of South Africa in Botswana is a government office.
Three Dikgosi Monument
The Three Dikgosi Monument is a bronze sculpture located in the Central Business District of Gaborone, Botswana.Localities in the Area
Mogoditshane
Photo: Masedi Nonofo, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Mogoditshane is a town located in the Kweneng District of Botswana.
Tlokweng
Tlokweng is a peri-urban settlement classified as an urban village located east of the capital of Botswana, Gaborone and falling under the jurisdiction of South East District Council.Gaborone
- Type: City with 232,000 residents
- Description: capital city of Botswana
- Categories: capital city, big city, administrative division and locality
- Location: Southeast, Botswana, Southern Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-24.6581° or 24° 39' 29" southLongitude
25.9088° or 25° 54' 32" eastPopulation
232,000Elevation
1,011 metres (3,317 feet)IATA airport code
GBEUnited Nations Location Code
BW GBEOpen Location Code
5G778WR5+PGOpenStreetMap ID
node 30670040OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
933773Wikidata ID
Q3919Gaborone Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Gaborone
- Afrikaans: GC
- Afrikaans: Gaborone
- Akan: Gaborone
- Akan: Gabs
- Albanian: Gaborone
- Amharic: ጋበሮኔ
- Amharic: ጋቦሮን
- Arabic: Gaborone
- Arabic: جابورون
- Arabic: عاصمة بوتسوانا
- Arabic: غابورون
- Aragonese: Gaborone
- Armenian: Գաբորոնե
- Arpitan: Gaborone
- Asturian: Gaborone
- Avaric: Gaborone
- Azerbaijani: Qaborone
- Balinese: Gaborone
- Bashkir: Габороне
- Basque: Gaborone
- Belarusian: Габаронэ
- Bengali: গাবোরোন
- Bosnian: Gaborone
- Breton: Gaborone
- Bulgarian: Габороне
- Burmese: ဂါဘိုရိုနေမြို့
- Catalan: Gaborone
- Cebuano: Gaborone
- Central Bikol: Gaborone
- Central Kurdish: گابۆرۆن
- Chechen: Габороне
- Chinese: Gaborone
- Chinese: 哈博罗内
- Chinese: 哈博羅內
- Chinese: 嘉柏隆里
- Chinese: 嘉波隆里
- Cornish: GC
- Cornish: Gaborone
- Croatian: Gaborone
- Czech: Gaborone
- Danish: Gaborone
- Dimli (individual language): Gaborone
- Dutch: Gaborone
- Egyptian Arabic: جابورون
- English: Gaberones
- English: Gabs
- English: Motse-Mshate
- Esperanto: Gaberono
- Esperanto: Gaborono
- Estonian: Gaborone
- Ewe: Gaborone
- Ewe: Gabs
- Fiji Hindi: Gaborone
- Finnish: Gaborone
- French: Gaborone
- Galician: GC
- Galician: Gaborone
- Georgian: გაბორონე
- German: Gaborone
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: Gaborone
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: Gabs
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: Motse-Mshate
- Greek: Γκαμπορόνε
- Gujarati: ગૅબરોન
- Haitian: Gaboròn
- Hakka Chinese: Gaborone
- Hausa: GC
- Hausa: Gaborone
- Hausa: Gabs
- Hausa: Motse-Mshate
- Hebrew: גאבורון
- Hindi: गबोरोनी
- Hindi: गैबरोन
- Hindi: गैबोरर्न
- Hindi: गोबोर्नी
- Hungarian: Gaborone
- Icelandic: GC
- Icelandic: Gaboróne
- Ido: Gaborone
- Inari Sami: GC
- Inari Sami: Gaborone
- Indonesian: GC
- Indonesian: Gaborone
- Interlingua: Gaborone
- Interlingue: GC
- Interlingue: Gaborone
- Irish: Gaborone
- Italian: GC
- Italian: Gaborone
- Japanese: ハボローネ
- Javanese: GC
- Javanese: Gaborone
- Kabiyè: Kaborɔnɩ
- Kabyle: Gaborone
- Kannada: ಗೆಬರೋನ್
- Kazakh: Габороне
- Kinyarwanda: Gaborone
- Kirghiz: Габороне
- Kongo: Gaborone
- Korean: 가보로네
- Kotava: Gaborone
- Kurdish: Gaboron
- Latin: GC
- Latin: Gaborone
- Latvian: GC
- Latvian: Gaborone
- Ligurian: GC
- Ligurian: Gaborone
- Lingua Franca Nova: Gaborone
- Lithuanian: GC
- Lithuanian: Gaboronas
- Livvi: GC
- Livvi: Gaborone
- Lombard: GC
- Lombard: Gaborone
- Low German: GC
- Low German: Gaborone
- Lule Sami: GC
- Lule Sami: Gaborone
- Luxembourgish: Gaborone
- Macedo-Romanian: Gaborone
- Macedonian: Габороне
- Malagasy: GC
- Malagasy: Gaborone
- Malay: GC
- Malay: Gaborone
- Malayalam: ഗാബറോൺ
- Marathi: गॅबारोनी
- Mazanderani: گابورون
- Min Dong Chinese: Gaborone
- Min Nan Chinese: GC
- Min Nan Chinese: Gaborone
- Mingrelian: გაბორონე
- Moksha: Габаронэ
- Moksha: Габоронэ
- Mongolian: Габороне
- Moroccan Arabic: ڭابورون
- N'Ko: ߜ߭ߊߓߙߏߣߋ߫
- Northern Frisian: Gaborone
- Northern Sami: Gaborone
- Norwegian: Gaborone
- Norwegian Bokmål: GC
- Norwegian Bokmål: Gaborone
- Norwegian Nynorsk: GC
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Gaborone
- Novial: GC
- Novial: Gaborone
- Occitan (post 1500): GC
- Occitan (post 1500): Gaborone
- Ossetian: Габороне
- Panjabi: ਗਾਬੋਰੋਨੀ
- Papiamento: GC
- Papiamento: Gaborone
- Pedi: GC
- Pedi: Gaborone
- Persian: گابورون
- Piemontese: Gaborone
- Pite Sami: Gaborone
- Polish: GC
- Polish: Gaborone
- Portuguese: GC
- Portuguese: Gaborone
- Pushto: ګابورون
- Quechua: GC
- Quechua: Gaborone
- Romanian: Gaborone
- Russian: Габеронес
- Russian: Габороне
- Sardinian: Gaborone
- Scots: Gaborone
- Scottish Gaelic: Gaborone
- Serbian: Габороне
- Serbo-Croatian: Gaborone
- Shona: GC
- Shona: Gaborone
- Silesian: Gaborone
- Sinhala: ගබෝරෝන්
- Sinhala: ගැබරෝන්
- Skolt Sami: GC
- Skolt Sami: Gaborone
- Slovak: GC
- Slovak: Gaborone
- Slovenian: GC
- Slovenian: Gaborone
- Somali: GC
- Somali: Gaborone
- South Azerbaijani: قابۇرۇن
- Southern Sami: GC
- Southern Sami: Gaborone
- Spanish: Gaborone
- Swahili: GC
- Swahili: Gaborone
- Swedish: GC
- Swedish: Gaborone
- Tagalog: GC
- Tagalog: Gaborone
- Tajik: Габороне
- Tamil: கபோறோன்
- Tamil: காபரோனி
- Tamil: காபோரோனே
- Telugu: గాబరోనె
- Thai: กาโบโรเน
- Tibetan: ག་བོ་རོ་ནི།
- Tornedalen Finnish: Gaborone
- Tswana: Gaborone
- Tswana: Gc
- Tswana: Magheba
- Tswana: Moshate
- Turkish: GC
- Turkish: Gaborone
- Turkmen: Gabaron
- Udmurt: Габороне
- Ukrainian: Габороне
- Ume Sami: GC
- Ume Sami: Gaborone
- Upper Sorbian: GC
- Upper Sorbian: Gaborone
- Urdu: گبرون
- Uzbek: GC
- Uzbek: Gaborone
- Venetian: GC
- Venetian: Gaborone
- Veps: GC
- Veps: Gaborone
- Vietnamese: GC
- Vietnamese: Gaborone
- Volapük: GC
- Volapük: Gaborone
- Waray (Philippines): GC
- Waray (Philippines): Gaborone
- Welsh: Gaborone
- Western Armenian: Կապորոնէ
- Western Frisian: Gaborone
- Western Panjabi: گابورون
- Wu Chinese: 哈博罗内
- Yiddish: גאבאראן
- Yoruba: GC
- Yoruba: Gaborone
- Yue Chinese: 嘉波隆里
- Zulu: GC
- Zulu: IGaborone
- Gaberones Village
- גאבאראנע
- ಗ್ಯಾಬೆರೋಹ್ನಿ
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