Bot·swa·na (b t-swä n ) Formerly Bech·u·a·na·land (b ch-wän-l nd , bch -ä-) A country of south-central Africa. Originally inhabited by the San and later (18th century) by the Tswana, the region became a British protectorate after 1885 and gained full independence in 1966. Gaborone is the capital and the largest city. Population: 1,820,000. Bot·swa nan adj. & n. |   |
Botswana [bʊˈtʃwɑːnə bʊtˈswɑːnə bɒt-]
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(Placename) a republic in southern Africa: established as the British protectorate of Bechuanaland in 1885 as a defence against the Boers; became an independent state within the Commonwealth in 1966; consists mostly of a plateau averaging 1000 m (3300 ft.), with the extensive Okavango swamps in the northwest and the Kalahari Desert in the southwest. Languages: English and Tswana. Religion: animist majority. Currency: pula. Capital: Gaborone. Pop.: 1 586 000 (2001 est.). Area: about 570 000 sq. km (220 000 sq. miles)
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| Noun | 1. |  Botswana - a landlocked republic in south-central Africa that became independent from British control in the 1960scapital of Botswana, Gaborone - capital and largest city of Botswana in the extreme southeast Kalahari, Kalahari Desert - a desert in southwestern Africa - largely Botswana Africa - the second largest continent; located to the south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean Herero - a member of a pastoral Bantu people living in Namibia, Botswana, and Angola Sotho - a member of the Bantu people who inhabit Botswana, Lesotho, and northern South Africa and who speak the Sotho languages |
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