7 Amazing Facts About Botswana [Discover Botswana 2021]
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 มิ.ย. 2021
- Botswana is a landlocked country found right in middle of Southern African region, bordered by South Africa on the south, Namibia on the west, Zambia on the north and Zimbabwe on the east.
There are about 2.2 million people living in Botswana with its capital city is Gaborone, also its largest city with just about one eighth of its population.
Here are the 7 Facts you probably didn't know, about this country,
Number 1
Botswana is a home of largest salt pans in the world. Makgadikgadi Pan is the world largest salt pans located in the north-east of the Central Kalahari Game Reserve and south-east of the Okavango Delta. According to UNESCO website, it covers an area of over thirty thousand square kilometer, this is equal to the entire size of both Jamaica and Israel combined, and this magnificent salt pan was listed as part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2010.
Number 2
Botswana is the largest producer of diamond in the world
Botswana is the world’s biggest producer of diamond in terms of quality, and second biggest producer of diamond in terms of volume after Russia, with estimated twenty point nine million carats in 2016. Diamonds alone contributes to 25% of the country GDP, Before its independence, Botswana was a poorest and least developed country in Africa, to understand the state of poverty the country was in, There were only total twelve kilometers of paved roads, few hospitals built by missionaries and farming was the only way of sustenance for most locals. 1 year after gaining independence, a huge diamond mine was discovered in Orapa. Today, Botswana is one of the most prosperous and steady growing countries in Africa.
Number 3
The rest of Africa could be the same if they managed their countries in a similar way. For starters Botswana never chased their minorities away but instead accomodated them into their system. My chartered accountant neighbor moved there a year ago and is never coming back. No country should lose skills as is happening in South Africa.
May be its because "ours" treated us as equal human beings, never took our valuable resource land,never denied us the right to vote, never asked us to carry dom pass in our country and they didn't see us black Africans in our own country. They respected us and likewise, we are not traumatised by our past but rather we celebrate our great past and thanks to our traditional chiefs they resisted the enemies tactics with wisdom.
@@revoniamabutho9343 come on friend the whole of South America was colonised, so was India and many other parts of the world. They chose to move on with their lives instead of complaining every day. If Africa can do that they can become the winning continent on earth under the current circumstances. Blaming someone else for your messed up situation after 50 years under your own management is just pitiful.
@@nelsonchinasamy9857 This dismissive mentality is the root cause of all evil,Indian and South American are non of my concern, their land was never taken and be if we can stop generalising Africa as one country the better. My reference are about RSA and BW. The Jews are still traumatised about Hitler and still talk about it ,why not us?Because we don't have blue eyes I guess.You can not erase people's painful history by sweeping it under the carpet and dismiss it.Learn the painful history of Southern Africa.The last country to be independent was 28 years ago not 50 years as you say,how long did segregation last?
@@revoniamabutho9343 the truth hurts, doesn't it. Why is South Africa the most developed country in Africa?, Yo don't have to be Einstein to figure that out. Let's forget about the racism shit and let's get together and build. Otherwise another Zimbabwe /Venezuela is coming.
@@nelsonchinasamy9857 the truth does not hurt if both sides are allowed to tell their story without the other side being dismissive. Development at the expense of the poor who build the country as labourers and paid peanuts by the capitalists.The SA economy is on the hands of the few rich capitalist mafia.
Proud to be a Motswana ❤️🇧🇼🇧🇼
can we be friends? I'm from Ghana 🇬🇭 west Africa
Hope One day Mozambique goes the same way our brothers tswanas. Dumelang bo ntante
Dumela motho wa rona? Lea tsoga akere ko Mozambiki? Rona re bolawa ke mogote wa letsatsi ka kwano
Malaitiaka le bua se galona mo dilong tsa sekgoa.Sure sure Re kopane go direla lefatshe la rona
BW ROCKS❤❤❤
God bless Botswana. Great country
I have never heard anything more trueth reported by someone else other than a Motswana, better than this lady. So marvelous❤️😘👏
Shoutout to my cousins in Botswana
Thanks cousy
I hear the first time about this country❤ love it i wish could visit one day i m from east africa i m so warry about east we re at war this time so sad my people we need peace
With 2 million people and diamonds being rich shouldn't be a problem
Homeland 🇧🇼
Would love to visit
My Homeland 🇧🇼🇧🇼🇧🇼❤️❤️😇😇😇💕❤️
Oh, iam trying to coming there,
@@shaa1434 Warmly Welcome
@@busangtshweu9176 i want your number
Me too
I love botswana l used to stay in Gabs,Molepolole & Francistown between 2000 & 2005
Botswana doing way better than most of EU countries
Especially Turkey and Hungary
if the do better than most EU countries...it is because Eu buy Botswana'a diamonds. If they wouldnt, they woyld be still one of Afric's poorest country.
Turkey is not an EU country, nor will it ever be an EU member state@@tallo7545
Botswana is doing great but let's not get carried away
@szultan44 all countries are doing well because of international trade. There's no exception.
In Botswana;
1.Orphans are provided with food groceries.
2.old people and physically disabled people are given money every month.
3. Education is free in Botswana for everyone, from primary school up to university ( food is provided at school) for free
4. Health care is free in Botswana for citizens.
Sending out a big "Aloha" to Botswana 👋 from your antipodes in Honolulu, Hawaii USA
The best country in Africa
GOD BLESS THE COUNTRY MORE AND MORE
Botswana is best countrie in Africa I have stayed in bostwana gabrone for 2year most impressive beautiful
Love this country bcoz so quiet
Did you see that diamond? Wow!!
Thanks well narratived
We are resilient people, they still from us to build their empire but that's not all, we build ourselves uptick them out and conquer. Africa is the riches country it just needs good leaders and people who stand with them.
Unite Africa!
Greater Grace
Someday i want go to this country
Wonderful
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Going there next month, can't wait.
How was it?
Proud Motswana here❤️
Great Example of Peace & Prosperity for rest of Africa……Good Job to whoever the president is and was.
It was Sir Seretse Khama than Ein khama and Botswanas current president is Mokgweetsi Masisi
Biggest producer...!!!!
My favorite county and I am proud of being Motswana
My, your, our Botswana
Fatshe la kagiso🇧🇼🇧🇼🇧🇼🙏 BOTSWANA wa rona🥰🇧🇼🙏
Good progressive uncorrupt governance. Education conscious nation. Peace loving nation. Low population country blessed with good minerals. What more do you need? This country is a country other African countries can emulate.
Like it i learn more about Botswana nice county
Stay blessed and happy in Jesus name
I’m going there soon.
protectorate isssue>>>>>>>
The monument features 5.4-metre (18 ft) tall bronze statues of three dikgosi, or chiefs, who played important roles in Botswana's independence: Khama III, Sebele I, and Bathoen I[3] The three chiefs traveled to Great Britain in 1895 to ask Joseph Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies, and Queen Victoria to separate the Bechuanaland Protectorate from Cecil Rhodes's British South Africa Company and Southern Rhodesia (present-day Zimbabwe). Permission was granted, and meant that the Batswana remained under direct British rule until independence in the 1960s.] source: wikipedia... gape le nna ke a itse mose
Thank you good video
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I think Botswana would be 1st richest country someday
Hi Topsight Africa,
please shar Botswana eVisa URL
thanks
Im really interested coming into this country for investment's purposes just like i don't know some one from there
I wish I will see Botswana 🇧🇼
Very insightful blessings to everyone if you haven't yet repented and accepted Christ Jesus as your Lord and Savior please do so before it's too late it's not God's will for none to perish
I only accept myself as my savior.
Tsuuuip
Proud to be a motwana 😁😏
Botswana is popular from Yakko's World too
Eishh, Botswana man what can I say LOL
I am from Botswana 🇧🇼
I want to visit this country
I am watching this video after Germany comment on Botswana about elephant.
I am relocating to Botswana
Bongumusa, Musa ukuphapha, o ya kae?????🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Love from India 🇮🇳❤
Ship it
BoRtswana
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Botswana 🫶🏾
I live there bros
Can foreigners buy land there?
hie. correction: The population of Gaborone is around 250 000 not 180 000. That 180 000 is for 2001 population census then 2011 was 232 000. Then we are waiting for 2021 population census which will be carried out may be next year due to covid 19. But on that note Gaborone is surround by now big villages, Tlokweng in the east then Mogoditshane in the west. Therefore while you are in Gaborone and visit these places you will not notice whether you are still in Gaborone or out. The population of these villages are not included in Gaborone.
Thank you very much for your elaborate and informative comment in a very friendly tone, that alone said much about Batswana. I have noted that thank you once again
But u did t hear him well. He didnt say Gaborone population is 180 000 but rather he said is one eith (1/8) of the 2.2m population
Botswana, SA and Namibia are one. Botswana owns the 3. We are royalty and would love to see everyone create their own world outside us. We are Americans..
How ?????😂😂😂😂😂
We are actually never interested in becoming Americans....we are Africans....😘
Really,???????
Wagafa neh
Lol no we are different countries
I live in Botswana but im a foregner batswana you have a beautiful country and it's very peaceful we need you to communicate in English as well no offence to your language its perfect but not all of us know how to speak it so we can learn it as time goes on
Learn the language. Finish and klaar
@@rakwenaboikhutso4788 yes dear its true I wish to learn it but it can't happen overnight especially if you stay with people who don't speak the language
Can teach you for free, what's your native language?
Ndebele,shona ,English, next Tswana
@@cleopatrakhumalo9123 am ready when you are uhlalaphi? Speaking limited ndebele but am tswana
One of the best countries in Africa thanks to that Brittish wife of their ex leader. Great govenance. Wonderful country. Run in a civilised way.
@Thabo Khensani am grand thanks
Zimbabwe
What did the British wufe do? Botswana is what it is because of its people not coz of some white British lady as u want everyone to believe.
What exactly did one british lady do that million British people failed to do in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe?
Botswana and Nigeria are Africa's most underrated countries.
Madagascar too!
Remove Nigeria, it's the opposite..it is the most overrated
Nigeria...underrated???? It is a fully criminal country.
Talk about Zimbabwe minerals and raw materials
Sho I will sir
Guys it is the Death Penalty in Botswana that Shivers my skin.
8th Fact: it’s a meme from Yakko’s World
Eswatini next
Great, we doing definitely doing the Iswatini on the video after next, stay tune.
TOO POOR !!
You are right even though you missed somewhere, cozy according to my opinion there only two countries in Africa that were never colonised by imperialist;and that is Ethiopia and Liberia anyway I don't urge here but I learn today
By looking at the fact that there is hardly no rubbish on the street, you know that this country will do well.
Botswana and Eswatini (Formerly Swaziland) were the British Protectorates. They didn't fight against the British. Virtually was under the UK governance, though.
How is it growing when all the diamonds go to Glencore.
Botswana is believed to be the original Garden of Eden
I live in Botswana but I don't speak setswana I know some word
2024
So whoever finds big diamonds can't keep it?
I came here after watching “free documentary”.
After independence from who?
BLORTSWANA
Lagos, Nigeria next in August of 2021!
Noted with pleasure, thank you for your loyal support to our channel
I'm thinking about going to Botswana. I wonder if they need Doctors?
@Topsight Africa
Stop claiming that Botswana was never colonized.
All western so-called protectorates were in reality their colonies, where the west brutally imposed their rule over these countries and exploited their resources.
Botswana was colonised by the British.
The British colonized the land of the Batswana in 1885 as a way of blocking a possible alliance between the Boers in the Transvaal and the Germans in South West Africa (Namibia). The British called the territory Bechuanaland Protectorate.
Yes but those brutalities were never heard of in Botswana, the protection was asked by Batswana, and the ‘independence’ was also offered in a silver platter to Botswana. Without any war, not even misunderstanding
But we're poor and starving of hunger😭😭😭😭
Interestingly it had not been colonized yet doing well
This country is fuckin rich ❤❤
Снежана
Narrator sounds like a robot. Her pronunciation of the country’s name sounds like “Portswana.”
She is a robot
Excuse me, my country's name is also Bortswana!
If you look at the post colonial world then there are only 4 countries which have been continuous democracies since 1970, India, Mauritius, Botswana and Costa Rica.
Botswana is the world's fastest growing democracy from 1970 to present and India world's second fastest growing democracy in this period.
Only those countries have grown faster than Botswana and India which implemented development oriented dictatorship and pushed one child policy.
I am sure that Botswana would also be having issues but International media doesn't attack it because they have a population of 2.6 million but India has a population of 1.4 billion no wonder it is targeted.
For example Myanmar has military dictatorship and Chin refugees fled to India but International media only reacted when Ram Mandir was built in India.
Also, Chinese Communist Party, Open Society Foundation and Muslim Brotherhood are paying US dollars and giving toolkit to International media to target India.
Bortswana
Never colonized says it all!
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you are busy guys commenting about presentation we should be angry cause they see the whole of Africa as business. Yet we are suffering why can't we keep it here
I want to move there, but that western mask mandate is discouraging 😞
I'm going this year...I'll meet you there !!
Botswana gives me anxiety
Botswana has a thriving tourism industry, and a lot of comments are made by people who see elephants and other wildlife which they don't have in their countries, these same elephants are destroying people's livelihoods because of external control of her resources, like ivory for example. While you might have had a fantastic time viewing elephants from the safety of a Landcruiser, take a moment to reflect on the difficult life of a poor villager whose crops are ravaged by elephants every season and whose goats are eaten by hyenas.
Владимир
Talk about poverty we live in
'Botswana was never colonised' 🤣🤣🤣
It was colonised by Britain
Comment, get all nations and corrupt leaders out of Africa who are exploiting it for their own agenda.