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| conventional_long_name                = Botswana
| common_name                = Botswana
| native_name                = Lefatshe ja Botswana ([[Setswana]])<br/>Republic of Botswana ([[Sekgoa]])
| image_flag                = Flag of Botswana.svg
| image_coat                = Coat of arms of Botswana.svg
| national_motto                = {{native phrase|tn|Pula|paren=no}}<br />
| national_anthem                = {{native phrase|tn|[[Fatshe leno la rona]]|paren=no}}<br />{{parabr}}{{center|[[File:United States Navy Band - Fatshe leno la rona.ogg]]}}
| image_map                = {{Switcher|[[File: Botswana (centered orthographic projection).svg|frameless]]|Show globe|[[File:Location Botswana AU Africa.svg|upright=1.15|frameless]]|Show map of Africa|default=1}}
| map_caption                = 
| capital                = [[Gaborone]]
| coordinates                = {{Coord|24|39.5|S|25|54.5|E|type:city|display=inline}}
| largest_city                = capital
| official_languages                = [[Sekgoa]]<ref name="gov.bw languages">{{Cite web |title=About Our Country |url=https://www.gov.bw/about-our-country |access-date=2022-04-17 |website=Gov.bw |quote=Botswana has a number of tribes across the country, collectively known as Batswana. The official language is English and Setswana is the national language, although there are other spoken languages.}}</ref>
| languages_type                = National language
| languages                = [[Tswana language|Setswana]]<ref name="gov.bw languages" />
| ethnic_groups                = {{Unbulleted list|79% [[Tswana people|Batswana]] |9% [[Kalanga people|Kalanga]] |3% [[San people|Barwa]] |9% Ba bangwe {{small|(go akaretsa [[Kgalagadi language|Bakgalagadi]], [[Indians in Botswana|Makula]], le [[White people in Botswana|Makgoa]])}}}}
| ethnic_groups_year                = 2012<ref name="cia"/>
| religion                = {{Unbulleted list|73%
 [[Christianity in Botswana|Sekerêsete]] |—66% [[Protestantism]] |—7% Other [[Christian]] |20% [[Irreligion in Botswana|Basenatumelo]] |6% [[African traditional religion|Traditional faiths]] |1% Tsê dingwe{{efn|Including [[Baháʼí Faith in Botswana|Baháʼí]], [[Hinduism in Botswana|Hindu]], and [[Islam in Botswana|Seinêêdi]].<ref name=pew/>}}}}
| demonym                = {{Unbulleted list|Batswana |Motswana }}
| government_type                = [[Unitary state|Unitary]] [[Dominant-party system|dominant-party]] [[List of countries by system of government#Parliamentary republics with an executive presidency|parliamentary republic with an executive presidency]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Africa :: Botswana – The World Factbook - Central Intelligence Agency |url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/botswana/ |website=www.cia.gov |access-date=17 December 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Selolwane |first1=Onalenna |title=Monopoly Politikos: How Botswana's Opposition Parties Have Helped Sustain One-Party Dominance |journal=African Sociological Review |date=2002 |volume=6 |issue=1 |pages=68–90 |doi=10.4314/asr.v6i1.23203 |jstor=24487673 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
| leader_title1                = [[President of Botswana|President]]
| leader_name1                = [[Mokgweetsi Masisi]]<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-28/masisi-to-lead-botswana-as-khama-steps-down-after-decade-at-helm|title=Masisi to Lead Botswana as Khama Steps Down After a Decade|newspaper=Bloomberg.com|date=28 March 2018|access-date=31 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180401010006/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-28/masisi-to-lead-botswana-as-khama-steps-down-after-decade-at-helm|archive-date=1 April 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>
| leader_title2                = [[Vice-President of Botswana|Vice-President]]
| leader_name2                = [[Slumber Tsogwane]]
| leader_title3                = [[Speaker of the National Assembly of Botswana|National Assembly Speaker]]
| leader_name3                = [[Phandu Skelemani]]
| legislature                = [[National Assembly (Botswana)|National Assembly]]
| sovereignty_type                = [[Independence]]
| sovereignty_note                = from the [[United Kingdom]]
| established_event1                = Established ([[Constitution of Botswana|Constitution]])
| established_date1                = 30 Lwêtse 1966
| area_km2                = 581,730
| area_rank                = 47th <!-- Area rank should match [[List of countries and dependencies by area]] -->
| area_sq_mi                = 224,610 <!--Do not remove per [[WP:MOSNUM]]-->
| area_footnote                = <ref>{{cite report|url = http://www.fao.org/3/a-az171e.pdf | publisher = United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization | website = fao.org | title = Global Forest Resources Assessment 2015 – Country Report – Botswana | page = 9 | date = 2015 | quote = Total Country Area ('000)ha / 58 173 }}</ref><!-- 58,173,000 hectares is 581,730 km2 -->
| percent_water                = 2.7
| population_estimate                = {{UN_Population|Botswana}}{{UN_Population|ref}}
| population_census                = 2,346,179<ref>{{Cite web |last=Statistics Botswana |date=May 2022 |title=2022 POPULATION AND HOUSING CENSUS PRELIMINARY RESULTS V2 |url=https://www.statsbots.org.bw/sites/default/files/census_documents/2022%20Population%20and%20Housing%20Census%20Preliminary%20Results.pdf |access-date=2 July 2022 |website=Statistics Botswana}}</ref>
| population_estimate_year                = {{UN_Population|Year}}
| population_estimate_rank                = 145th
| population_census_year                = 2022
| population_density_km2                = 4.1
| population_density_sq_mi                = 10.62
| population_density_rank                = 231st
| GDP_PPP                = $43.474 billion<ref name="imf2021gdp">{{cite web |title=IMF Country Specific Data |url=https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2021/01/weodata/weorept.aspx?sy=2019&ey=2019&scsm=1&ssd=1&sort=country&ds=.&br=1&pr1.x=67&pr1.y=3&c=616&s=NGDPD%2CPPPGDP%2CNGDPDPC%2CPPPPC&grp=0&a= |access-date=10 August 2019}}</ref>
| GDP_PPP_year                = 2022
| GDP_PPP_rank                = 120
| GDP_PPP_per_capita                = $19,287<ref name=imf2021gdp/>
| GDP_PPP_per_capita_rank                = 99
| GDP_nominal                = $16.948 billion<ref name=imf2021gdp/>
| GDP_nominal_year                = 2022
| GDP_nominal_rank                = 120
| GDP_nominal_per_capita                = $7,519<ref name="imf2019gdp">{{cite web |title=IMF Country Specific Data |url=https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2019/01/weodata/weorept.aspx?sy=2019&ey=2019&scsm=1&ssd=1&sort=country&ds=.&br=1&pr1.x=67&pr1.y=3&c=616&s=NGDPD%2CPPPGDP%2CNGDPDPC%2CPPPPC&grp=0&a= |access-date=10 August 2019}}</ref>
| GDP_nominal_per_capita_rank                = 101
| Gini                = 53.3
| Gini_year                = 2015
| Gini_change                = decrease <!--increase/decrease/steady-->
| Gini_ref                = <ref name="WBgini">{{cite web |url= https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.POV.GINI?locations=BW |title= GINI index (World Bank estimate) |publisher= World Bank |access-date= 20 April 2019 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20171213083923/https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.POV.GINI?locations=BW |archive-date= 13 December 2017 |url-status= live}}</ref>
| Gini_rank                = 
| HDI                = 0.735<!--number only, between 0 and 1-->
| HDI_year                = 2019<!-- Please use the year to which the data refers, not the publication year-->
| HDI_change                = increase <!--increase/decrease/steady-->
| HDI_ref                = <ref name="UNHDR">{{cite web|url=http://hdr.undp.org/sites/default/files/hdr2020.pdf|title=Human Development Report 2020|language=en|publisher=[[United Nations Development Programme]]|date=15 December 2020|access-date=15 December 2020}}</ref>
| HDI_rank                = 100th
| currency                = [[Botswana pula|Pula]]
| currency_code                = BWP
| time_zone                = [[Central Africa Time]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.elaws.gov.bw/desplaylrpage1.php?id=1399|last=Chapter: 01:04|title=Interpretation Act 1984 (§40(1))|date=20 July 1984|access-date=11 September 2020|archive-date=28 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170328201053/http://www.elaws.gov.bw/desplaylrpage1.php?id=1399|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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| calling_code                = [[+267]]
| cctld                = [[.bw]]
| official_website                = [http://www.gov.bw/ http://www.gov.bw/]
| footnote_a                = 
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Lefatshe ja '''Botswana''' le kwa borwa jwa [[Aforika]], ke lefatshe lê lê dikaganyêditswêng ke a mangwê, ka jalo ga le a bapa le lewatle. Pele ga le tsaya boipusô ka kgwedi ya Phalane e tlhôla masomemararo ka ngwaga wa sekete, makgolo maheramongwe, masomemarataro le metsomerataro (1966) mo go ''Enyelane'' le ne le bidiwa [[Bechuanaland]]. Lefatshe ja Botswana le dikaganyêditswê ke la [[Aforika Borwa]] kwa borwa-botlhaba go fitlha kwa borwa-bophirima, [[Namibia]] kwa bophirima, [[Zambia]] kwa bokône le [[Zimbabwe]] kwa bokône-botlhaba. Lefatshe lê lê bidiwa Botswana, le rêêlelwa ka bannibantsi ba lône eleng Batswana ka lotsô.

Pina ya setshaba ya Botswana ke [[fatshe leno la rona|fatshe lêno la rona]], ê e tlhamilwêng ke [[Rre K T Motsete]].

Madi a a dirisiwang kwa Botswana ke [[Pula]].

Botswana ke lefatshe lê lê farologanyeng le mafatshe a mangwê mo Aforika. Morago ga pusô ya Enyelane, Botswana o ne a tsaya boipusô ka di-30 tsa Lwêtse 1966. Morago ga boipusô, lefatshe ja Botswana le ne la dirisanya mmôgô le pusô ya Enyelane go itlhabolola. Babusi ba Botswana ka nakô êo ba ne ba leka ka bojotlhê go ntsha Botswana mo tlalêng. Tomokoraga e nê ya busa lefatshe jêno e êtêlêtswe pele ke Serêtsê Khama, tautona wa ntlha wa Botswana.

Gompijêno Botswana ke lengwe ja mafatshe a a tlhabologang ka bofêfo mô lefatshing ka bophara. Ntswa mafatshe a mangwê mo Aforika a tshwênngwa ke tlala le tsê dingwe jaaka dintwa le tsiêtsôsetshaba, Botswana e sa e kgôna go fênya mmaba mô e bileng e bilêng sekai mo Aforika.

==Lenanêô ja tirisômêtse mô Botswana==
Lefatshe ja Botswana le ntse le nosiwa mêtse ke makalana a a farologaneng mô dingwagêng difetileng. Water Utilities Corporation e ntse e nosa ditorôpô le ditorôpôkgolo. Mô godimo ga môo, kômpône êno, e ntse e tshwaragane le Lephata ja Mêtse le Dikhansele tsa Dikgaolô ka bokete jwa mêtse go abiwa le mafelo a mangwê a lefatshe leno. Maikaêlêlô a Lenanêô ja go Dira Diphêtogô mô Mhamêng wa Mêtse ke go rarabolola ditsamaisô tsêno marara, go bêng jalo go nne bonôlô go isa mêtse kwa bathung.Eeng sê se tlamilêng gore go diragadiwê Lenanêô ja go Dira Diphêtogô mô Mhamêng wa Mêtse? Kanokô ya Lenanêôlegolo ja Setshaba ja Phatlalatsô Mêtse ja 2005-2006, le ne la re go diriwê diphêtogôdigolo mô mhamêng wa mêtse, mme dingwe tsa tsônê e le gore, go kgaoganngwê tsamaisô ya mhama wa mêtse le makalana a mangwê a a thusang ka ditirêlô. Morago ga dikanokô tsêo, ba ne ba gakolola gore Water Utilities Corporation e tsêyê tsamaisô yôtlhê ya go nosa lefatshe jêno<ref>www.mmewr.gov.bw/downloads/download.php?dir</ref>.

==Dipôlôtiki le pusô ya Botswana==
E sale lefatshe ja Botswana le tsaya boipusô ka ngwaga wa 1966, le bilê le êtêlêtswê pele ke Phuthêgô ya Botswana Democratic Party ê, le mo bogompijênong, e ntseng e busa fela. Tautona ya lefatshe ja Botswana ke Rre Mokgwêêtsi Eric Keabêtswe Masisi, yô a amogilêng maêmô ana mô go Rre Ian Khama. Pusô ya lefatshe ja Botswana ke ya batho ka batho, mme sêno se raya gore mongwe le mongwe o na le tshwanêlô ya go tlhôpa phuthêgô e a akanyang gore e ka mo tswa mosola mô tsamaisông ya lefatshe a phuthologilê<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Botswana</ref>.Go kagisô ê e rênang lefatshe ka bophara mme sê se dire gore mafatshemantsi a batle go itsalanya le jônê. Batswana ka bontsi ke batho ba ba ratang go itse le gônê go tlhaloganya ka mafatshe a sele, jalo se baka tirisanyômmôgô fa gare ga mafatshe.

==Phemêlô==
Ka nakô ya boipusô, lefatshe ja Botswana le bile le sena sesôlê sê se nitameng. E ne e le morago ga gore Masôlê a Rotesia le a Aforika Borwa a lwantshiwê ke mephatô ya ZIPRA le MK [14] mme Botswana Defence Force (BDF) ya tlhamiwa ka ngwaga wa 1977<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botswana_Defence_Force</ref>. Tautona ê nê e le molaodi wa sesôlè gape a le dithata tsa go ka êtêlêla lefatshe gape. Sesôlê sa Botswana se maloko a ka tshwara selekanyo sa 12,000.

Go latêla phetogô ya sepôlôtiki sa Aforika Borwa, sesôlê sa Botswana sa nê sa itlama go sirêlêtsa diphôlôgôlô tsa tlhôlêgê, go thusa batho ka nakô ya fa ba wêtswe ke dibetsa tsa tlhôlêgô, gape le go lêre kagisô. Lefatshe ja United States ke lengwe lê le thusang Botswana ka ditlhabololô, le sônê sesôlê sa Botswana, ka bontsi jwa basônê ba fiwa ithuthuntshô ke ba lefatshe ja U.S. Ithuthuntshô êna e tsêwa e le ya kônôkônô<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botswana_Defence_Force</ref>.

==Diteme tsa Botswana==
Teme ê e buiwang mô Botswana ke Setswana, ke sônê se golaganyang merafe ê farologanyeng go utlwana. Ka gore go merafe ê e farologanyeng, Botswana o nale diteme tsê dingwe tsê di buiwang ke merafe êo, jaaka:
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Teme !! Morafe
|-
| Sesarwa || [[Basarwa|Barwa]]
|-
|Sekgôthu
|[[Bakgôthu]]
|-
| Sebirwa || <big>Babirwa</big>
|-
| Sesubiya || Basubiya
|-
| Sekalaka || Bakalaka
|-
| Sekgalagadi || Bakgalagadi
|-
| Sehambukushu || Bahambukushu
|-
| Seherero || Baherero
|-
| Sengwato || [[Bangwato]]
|-
| Setswapong || Batswapong
|}

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