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Botswana (nation) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 22 00 00 S degrees minutes |
Lat: -22.0000 decimal degrees |
| Long: 024 00 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 24.0000 decimal degrees |
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Note: Earliest inhabitants of region were San Bushmen; Sotho people immigrated ca. 1600; occupied by British in late 19th century; originally divided into British Bechuanaland and the Bechuanaland Protectorate (North of Molopo river). British Bechuanaland was annexed into the Cape Colony, and the Bechuanaland Protectorate became the independent republic of Botswana; official language is English, but national language is Tswana. Area in N South Africa. |
Names: |
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| Botswana (preferred,C,V,English-P,U,N)
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| Botswana (Rundi)
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| Botswana (Tagalog)
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| Botswana (Sangho)
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| Botswana (Setswana)
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| Botswana (Maltese)
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| Botswana (Vietnamese)
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| Botswana (Ilocano)
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| Botswana (Indonesian)
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| Botswana (Lingala)
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| Botswana (Magyar (Hungarian))
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| Botswana (Danish)
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| Botswana (Norwegian (Nynorsk))
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| Botswana (Finnish)
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| Botswana (Swedish)
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| Botswana (Polish)
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| Botswana (Portuguese)
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| Botswana (Romanian)
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| Botswana (Slovak)
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| Botswana (Spanish-P,U,N)
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| Botswana (Catalan)
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| Botswana (Basque)
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| Botswana (Welsh)
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| Botswana (Kurdish)
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| Botswana (German-P,U,N)
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| Botswana (Low German)
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| Botswana (Breton)
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| Botswana (Cornish)
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| Botswana (Czech)
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| Botswana (Dutch)
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| Botswana (Afrikaans)
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| Botswana (French-P,U,N)
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| Botswana (Galician)
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| Botswana (Italian)
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| Botswana (Estonian)
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| Botswana (Greenlandic)
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| Botswana (Turkish)
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| Botswana (Occitan)
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| Botswana (Norwegian (Bokmål))
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| Botswana (Haitian (Haitian Creole))
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| Botswana (Romansh)
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| Botswana (Kikuyu)
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| Botswana (Malay (macrolanguage))
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| Botswana (North Ndebele)
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| Botswana (Norwegian)
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| Botswana (Pampanga)
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| Botswana (Northern Sami)
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| Botswana (Shona)
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| Botswana (Swahili (generic))
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| Botswana (Ido)
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| Botswana (Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association))
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| Republic of Botswana (C,V,O,English,U,N)
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| Botswana, Republic of (C,V)
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| République du Botswana (C,O,French,U,N)
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| República de Botswana (C,V,Catalan)
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| Botsuana (C,O,Latin)
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| Botsuana (Portuguese)
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| Botsuana (Spanish,U,N)
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| Botsuana (Aragonese)
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| Botsuana (Asturian)
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| Botsuana (German)
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| Botsuana (Galician)
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| Ботсвана (C,V,Tajik)
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| Ботсвана (Chuvash)
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| Ботсвана (Kazakh)
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| Ботсвана (Bulgarian)
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| Ботсвана (Russian-P,U)
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| Ботсвана (Ukrainian)
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| Республика Ботсвана (C,V,Russian,U)
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| 博茨瓦纳 (C,V,Chinese-P,U)
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| 博茨瓦纳共和国 (C,V,Chinese,U)
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| بوجسوانا (C,V,Arabic-P,U)
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| جُهور ةً بوجسوانا (C,V,Arabic,U)
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| BWA (C,O,ISO3L)
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| BW (C,O,ISO2L)
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| ISO072 (C,O,ISO3N)
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| BC (C,O,FIPS)
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| Motswana (C,O)
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............ | adjectival form used to modify a singular noun |
| Batswana (C,O,English,U,A)
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............ | adjectival form used to modify a plural noun |
| Botswanan (C,O)
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| Botswanais (C,O,French,U,A)
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| Betsjoeanaland (C,V)
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| Betsjoeanaland, Britse Protektoraat van (C,V)
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| An Bhotsuáin (C,U,Irish Gaelic)
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| Baswana (C,U,Hausa)
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| Bocuana (C,U,Albanian)
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| Bocvana (C,U,Croatian)
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| Bocvana (Bosnian)
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| Bocvana (Slovene)
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| Bocvano (C,U,Esperanto)
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| Botiswana (C,U,Ganda (Ugandan language))
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| Botsƿana (C,U,Anglo-Saxon)
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| Botsoana (C,U,Malagasy)
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| Botsouana (C,U,Arpitan)
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| Botsvana (C,U,Azerbaijani)
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| Botsvana (Albanian)
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| Botsvana (Icelandic)
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| Botsvana (Faroese)
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| Botsvana (Lithuanian)
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| Botsvana (Turkish)
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| Botsvāna (C,U,Latvian)
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| Botsvana Cumhuriyeti (C,U,Turkish)
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| Botswaana (C,U,Fulah)
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| Botswana nutome (C,U,Ewe)
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| Botuswaana (C,U,Somali)
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| Botwana (C,U,Nauruan)
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| Bốt-xoa-na (C,U,Vietnamese)
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| Bốt-xoa-na (Botswana) (C,U,Vietnamese)
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| British Protectorate of Bechuanaland (C,U)
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| Britse Protektoraat van Betsjoeanaland (C,U)
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| Bɔtisiwana (C,U,Bambara)
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| Bɔtswana (C,U,Akan)
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| i-Botswana (C,U,Zulu)
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| IButswana (C,U,Zulu)
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| Mbotswana (C,U,Luba-Katanga)
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| Orílẹ́ède Bọ̀tìsúwánà (C,U,Yoruba)
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| Potisiuana (C,U,Tonga (Tonga Islands))
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| República de Botsuana (C,U,Galician)
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| Zvanän (C,U,Volapük)
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| ບອັດສະວານາ (C,U,Lao)
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| بوتسوانا (C,U,Pashto)
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| بوتسوانا (Urdu)
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| بوتسوانا (Persian-Farsi)
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| بوتسوانا (Arabic)
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| Բոտսվանա (C,U,Armenian)
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| বতসোয়ানা (C,U,Bengali)
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| बोत्स्वाना (C,U,Hindi)
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| بوتسۋانا (C,U,Uyghur)
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| ബോട്സ്വാന (C,U,Malayalam)
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| ቦትስዋና (C,U,Tigrinya)
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| ቦትስዋና (Amharic)
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| Боцвана (C,U,Serbian)
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| Боцвана (Macedonian)
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| בוטסואנה (C,U,Hebrew )
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| Ботсуана (C,U,Bulgarian)
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| បុតស្វាណា (C,U,Khmer)
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| بتسوانا (C,U,Arabic)
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| बोत्सवाना (C,U,Sanskrit)
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| बोत्सवाना (Hindi)
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| बोत्सवाना (Kashmiri)
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| ประเทศบอตสวานา (C,U,Thai)
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| บอตสวานา (C,U,Thai)
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| ボツワナ (C,U,Japanese)
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| 波札那 (C,U,Chinese)
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| போட்ஸ்வானா (C,U,Tamil)
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| 보츠와나 (C,U,Korean)
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| ბოტსვანა (C,U,Georgian)
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| Μποτσουάνα (C,U,Greek)
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| బోట్స్వానా (C,U,Telugu)
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| Батсвана (C,U,Belarusian)
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| ಬೋಟ್ಸ್ವಾನಾ (C,U,Kannada)
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| ဘော့စ်ဝါနာ (C,U,Burmese)
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| བོཙ་ཝ་ན། (C,U,Tibetan)
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| બોત્સ્વાના (C,U,Gujarati)
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| בוטסוואנה (C,U,Hebrew )
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| බොස්ට්වානා (C,U,Sinhala)
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| बोट्सवाना (C,U,Marathi)
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| बोट्स्वाना (C,U,Nepali)
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| ボツワナ共和国 (C,U,Japanese)
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| بۆتسوانا (C,U,Kurdish)
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| বোত্সওয়ানা (C,U,Bengali)
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| ବୋଟସ୍ବାନ୍ (C,U,Odia)
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| Bechuanaland (H,O)
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| Bechuanaland, British Protectorate of (H,O)
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| Bechuanaland Protectorate (H,O)
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| Betschuanaland Protektorat (H,O)
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| Betsjoeanaland Protektoraat (H,O)
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| Northern Bechuanaland (H,O)
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Hierarchical Position: |
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Additional Parents: |
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Place Types: |
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| nation (preferred, C) |
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gained independence 1966 |
| primary political unit (C) |
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| independent sovereign nation (C) |
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| republic (C) |
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established 1966 |
| former territory/colony/dependent state (C) |
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| protectorate (H) |
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British, 1885-1966 |
| independent political entity (C) |
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Related geographic places: |
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| capital is .... |
Gaborone .......... (inhabited place) |
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(World, Africa, Botswana, Gaborone) [1088036] |
| member of .... |
Commonwealth of Nations .......... (association) |
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(World) [7005615] |
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joined association in 1966 |
| member of .... |
United Nations .......... (organization) |
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(World) [7029605] |
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joined organization in 1966 |
| near/adjacent to .... |
British Bechuanaland .......... (former nation/state/empire) |
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(World, Africa) [6000963] |
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Sources and Contributors: |
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| Bechuanaland, British Protectorate of.......... |
[VP] |
| .............................................................. |
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-) accessed 11 June 2009 |
| Betsjoeanaland, Britse Protektoraat van.......... |
[VP] |
| ................................................................. |
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-) accessed 11 June 2009 |
| British Protectorate of Bechuanaland.......... |
[VP] |
| ........................................................... |
GeoNames online [n.d.] 933860 |
| Britse Protektoraat van Betsjoeanaland.......... |
[VP] |
| ................................................................. |
GeoNames online [n.d.] 933860 |
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