BOTSWANA
(Republic of Botswana)

Capital: Gaborone
Search of housing or hotel in Botswana in the Central Africa.

Flag: The flag of Botswana consists of five horizontal strips. Top and lower strips light blue and more widely, than midland, black. Blue strips are separated from black by thin white strips.

SLOGAN: Fatshe La Rona (Blessed country).

MONETARY GROUP: On August 23, 1976 a pool (r) from 100 people I replaced the South African rand (r) as legal currency of Botswana. There are coins 1, 2, 5, 10, 25, 50 and 1 pools and notes 2, 5, 10, 20, 50 and 100 pools. p1 = $0,99380 (or $1 = p5.16) as of 2005.

WEIGHT AND MEASURES: the metric system is the legal standard.

HOLIDAYS: New year, on January 1; Presidential day, on July 15; Days of Botswana, on September 30 - on October 1; Christmas, on December 25; Day of gifts, on December 26. Mobile vacation includes Good Friday, Easter Monday and Rise.

TIME: 14:00 - midday.

ARRANGEMENT, SIZE AND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

The country which doesn't have an outlet to the sea in the south of Africa, Botswana has the total area of 600 370 sq.km (231 804 quarter. Miles), 1110 km long (690 miles) NUS and 960 km (597 miles). Rather, the area occupied with Botswana is a little less than State of Texas. It meets Zambia in a point of n and Zimbabwe, in the south of South Africa and also on w and n Namibia, the total length of overland border of 4 013 km (2 493 miles) borders on it.

TOPOGRAPHY

The country represents extensive layer with the average height of 1000 m (3300 feet). The huge plateau about 1200 m (4000 feet) in height stretching from the next to the north from Kanye to Zimbabwean border divides the country into two certain topographical regions. East region - the hilly country of bushes and a meadow (veld). Hills Tsodilo in the northwest contain the highest point in the country approximately in 1489 m (4 884 feet). To the West Okavango swamps and the Kalahari Desert lie. The only sources of year-round surface water are the Chobe River in the north, Limpopo in the southeast and Okavango in the northwest. Limpopo - the longest river 1600 km long (1000 miles). During the periods of heavy rains of a flood come to salt pans of Makgadikgadi, the lake Ngami (the biggest lake, 1040 sq.km / 401 quarter. Miles) and Lake Hau.

CLIMATE

The most part of the country has subtropical climate, and more high temperatures prevail at higher heights. Winter days warm, and nights cool, with the hard frost widespread in the desert. Temperatures vary from average maxima of 33 °C (91 °F) in January and 22 °C (72 °F) in July to average minima of 18 °C (64 °F) in January and 5 °C (41 °F) in July. In August seasonal winds which blow from the West begin and bear sand and dust through the whole country. Osadkov usually makes 45 cm (18 inches), but hesitates from 69 cm (27 inches) to less than 25 cm (10 inches) in Kalakhari in the north; conditions of a drought prevailed at the beginning and the middle of the 1980th years.