Bot·swa·na
(bŏt-swä′nə) A country of south-central Africa. Originally inhabited by the San and later (after the 18th century) by the Tswana, the region became a British protectorate as Bechuanaland (1885) and gained full independence in 1966. Gaborone is the capital and the largest city.
Bot·swa′nan adj. & n.
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Botswana
(bʊˈtʃwɑːnə; bʊtˈswɑːnə; bɒt-)n
(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: 2 127 825 (2013 est). Area: about 570 000 sq km (220 000 sq miles)
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Bot•swa•na
(bɒtˈswɑ nə)n.
a republic in S Africa: formerly a British protectorate; gained independence 1966; member of the Commonwealth of Nations. 1,464,167; 275,000 sq. mi. (712,250 sq. km). Cap.: Gaborone. Formerly, Bechuanaland.
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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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ボツワナ
보츠와나
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ประเทศบอสซาวาน่า
nước Botswana
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