Despite its official isolation, however, the government in Mmabatho managed to set up a trade mission in Tel Aviv, Israel, and conducted some business with neighbouring Botswana in an effort to sway attitudes ; furthermore, Botswana agreed on " informal arrangements " short of official recognition in order to facilitate cross-border travel.

Approximately 366, 000 km² ( 38 %), however, is situated outside the country in Lesotho, Botswana and Namibia.

In the Tswana language, however, Botswana is the name for the country of the Tswana.

Botswana, however uses the Okavango Delta for both tourism income and a water source.

Today, however, it is not considered a different species, rather regarded as only ‘ desert adapted .’ The herds in this area remain separate from other elephant herds in Namibia and only appear to have longer legs and bigger feet because they eat less than elephants living in more food abundant areas such as Etosha National Park, the Caprivi, and Chobe region in Botswana.

Malope continues to record, in addition to performers such as Lusanda Spiritual Group, Barorisi Ba Morena, Amadodana Ase Wesile, Vuyo Mokoena and International Pentacoastal Church Choir, Lundi, Joyous Celebration, and the upcoming Scent From Above who have performed in Botswana occasionally. In 2000's Deborah Fraser has emerged as the best selling Gospel artist. Her albums have been audited to be in Top 5 selling in the country. In her album Isililo, Debrah Fraser sang in all South African languages like Venda, Shangaan, Sotho, Zulu and Xhosa. The industry has also been joined by the likes of Hlengiwe Mhlaba ( whose Aphendule is popular ) and Solly Moholo.

The Cuando continues in its marshy channel across the neck of the Caprivi Strip of Namibia ( map, 2 ) and then forms the border between Namibia and Botswana as it continues southeast.

Due to Mugabe's policy toward White Africans, Botswana ( along with the Czech Republic ), closed its embassy in Harare.

It covers the area of the nations of Angola, Ascension Island, Botswana, Comoro Islands, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Réunion, São Tomé and Príncipe, Seychelles, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe, as well as St. Helena and Tristan da Cunha, which are both territories of the United Kingdom, along with the Kerguelen Islands, which is a territory of France.

The R375 is a Regional Route in South Africa that connects the northern corner of North West Province along the Botswana border with Sannieshof.

Countries where ASL or a derivative of ASL is the national or a widespread language include Barbados, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Botswana ( with BSL ), Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, the Central African Republic, Chad, Côte d ' Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Kenya ( minority use ), Liberia, Madagascar ( minority use ), Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Philippines ( L2 use ), Puerto Rico, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Trinidad and Tobago, Togo, and Zimbabwe ( with ZSL ).

Other forms of agate include Lake Superior agate, carnelian agate ( exhibiting reddish hues ), Botswana agate, blue lace agate, plume agates, moss agate, tube agate ( with visible flow channels or pinhole-sized ' tubes '), fortification agate ( which exhibit little or no banding structure ), fire agate ( which has internal flash or ' fire ', the result of a layer of clear agate over a layer of hydrothermally-deposited hematite ), Mexican crazy-lace agate, which often exhibits a brightly colored, complexly banded pattern ( also called Rodeo Agate and Rosetta Stone depending on who owned the mine at the time ).

Botswana has land boundaries of combined length, of which the constituent boundaries are shared with Namibia, for ; South Africa ; Zimbabwe, and Zambia, less than.

Research from the University of Botswana has found that the common practice of overstocking cattle to cope with drought losses actually depletes scarce biomass, making ecosystems more vulnerable.

Demographic data from the 2001 Botswana census are included for comparison with 2006 CIA estimates.

The 2001 census was the first census in Botswana to comply with the SADC 2000 Census Project, the guidelines of which unify the demographic statistics in southern Africa.

All passenger services have been suspended in Botswana, with the only remaining service being an international link to Zimbabwe from Francistown, the only railway station that is still in service.

Botswana is also a member of the International Criminal Court with a Bilateral Immunity Agreement of protection for the US-military ( as covered under Article 98 ).

Botswana – Namibia relations are friendly, with the two neighbouring countries cooperating on economic development.

According to the minister of Foreign Affairs, Russia was one of the first countries to establish full diplomatic relations with Botswana.

The U. S. Peace Corps returned to Botswana in August 2002 with a focus on HIV / AIDS-related programs after concluding 30 years of more broadly targeted assistance in 1997.

Similarly, the USAID phased out a long-standing bilateral partnership with Botswana in 1996, after successful programs emphasizing education, training, entrepreneurship, environmental management, and reproductive health.

In 1995, the Centres for Disease Control ( CDC ) started the BOTUSA Project in collaboration with the Botswana Ministry of Health in order to generate information to improve tuberculosis control efforts in Botswana and elsewhere in the face of the TB and HIV / AIDS co-epidemics.

The African elephant ( Loxodonta africana ) is currently split-listed, with all populations except those of Botswana, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe listed in Appendix I.

Peru became the first of several countries to sever diplomatic relations with Tripoli on 22 February 2011, followed closely by African Union member state Botswana the following day.

Botswana has among the highest literacy rates in the developing world with around 85 % of its population being literate.

Shared with South Africa and Botswana, it has a variety of localized environments ranging from hyper-arid sandy desert, to areas that seem to defy the common definition of desert.

* Eastern-most point-the tripoint with Botswana and Zambia, Caprivi Region

In addition to its membership in the Southern African Development Community ( SADC ), Namibia presently belongs to the Southern African Customs Union ( SACU ) with South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, and Swaziland.

* Botswana-There is currently no rail-link with Botswana, though the two countries use the same gauge.

Up to the present, springbok are hunted as game throughout Namibia, Botswana and South Africa because of their beautiful coats, and because they are very common and easy to support on farms with very low rainfall, which means they are cheap to hunt, as well.

The seven censuses of Botswana before its independence happened irregularly.

In general they are loosely organized " in-house " unions, although the Botswana Federation of Trade Unions ( BFTU ) is consolidating its role as the sole national trade union centre in the country .< ref >

A sparsely populated, arid country, Botswana has nonetheless managed to incorporate much of its interior into the national economy.

Botswana possesses 888 km of gauge railway, by 2002 figures, serving a number of towns and connecting the country to its neighbours.

Despite its pro-Western orientation, Botswana participated in the 1980 Summer Olympics.

Russia has an embassy in Gaborone, while Botswana covers Russia from its embassy in Stockholm ( Sweden ) and an honorary consulate in Moscow.

The United States considers Botswana an advocate of and a model for stability in Africa and has been a major partner in Botswana's development since its independence.

Botswana still struggles to seal its border from thousands of Zimbabweans who flee economic collapse and political persecution.

The economy of South Africa is the largest in Africa, accounts for 24 % of its Gross Domestic Product in terms of PPP, and is ranked as an upper-middle income economy by the World Bank, which makes the country one of only four countries in Africa represented in this category ( the others being Botswana, Gabon and Mauritius ).

* 1966 – The British protectorate of Bechuanaland declares its independence, and becomes the Republic of Botswana.

The most unusual migration is that of the Southern Carmine Bee-eater, which has a three stage migration ; after breeding in a band between Angola and Mozambique it moves south to Botswana, Namibia and South Africa before moving north to its main wintering grounds in northern Angola, Congo and Tanzania.

The Transvaal Colony lay between Vaal River in the south, and the Limpopo River in the north, roughly between 22½ and 27½ S, and 25 and 32 E. To its south it bordered with the Orange Free State and Natal Colony, to its south-west were the Cape Colony, to the west the Bechuanaland Protectorate ( later Botswana ), to its north Rhodesia, and to its east Portuguese East Africa and Swaziland.

It has its headquarters in Gabarone, Botswana.

Khama III ( 1837 ?- 1923 ), also known as Khama the Good, was the kgosi ( meaning chief or king ) of the Bamangwato people of Bechuanaland ( now Botswana ), who made his country a protectorate of the United Kingdom to ensure its survival against Boer and Ndebele encroachments.

The Bechuanaland Protectorate maintained its semi-independent status until 1966, when it gained full independence as the Republic of Botswana.

The Transvaal province lay between the Vaal River in the south, and the Limpopo River in the north, roughly between 22½ and 27½ S, and 25 and 32 E. To its south it bordered with the Orange Free State and Natal provinces, to its west were the Cape Province and the Bechuanaland Protectorate ( later Botswana ), to its north Rhodesia ( later Zimbabwe ), and to its east Portuguese East Africa ( later Mozambique ) and Swaziland.