!!!Botswana: Geography
||Location|Southern Africa, north of South Africa
||Geographic Coordinates|22 00 S, 24 00 E[{GoogleMap location='-22.0,24.0' zoom='4'}]
||Area |''total: ''581,730 sq km\\''land: ''566,730 sq km\\''water: ''15,000 sq km__\\''We are unable to verify those figures from Factbook, since the 6 main sources we used for checking give different figures as follows:\\[Factbook|https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook]: 581730\\ [DBpedia|http://dbpedia.org]: 581730\\ [Geoname|http://www.geonames.org]: 600370\\ [Infoplease|http://www.infoplease.com]: 600370\\ [Britannica|http://www.britannica.com]: 581730\\ [Wolfram|http://www.wolframalpha.com]: 581730''__\\__Attempted Explanation__: Please help us to try to explain the discrepancies by sending us helpful information to [office@global-geography.org|mailto:office@global-geography.org]
||Land boundaries|''total: ''4,347.1 km\\''border countries: ''Namibia 1,544 km, South Africa 1,969 km, Zambia 0.1 km, Zimbabwe 834 km
||Coastline|0 km (landlocked)
||Elevation Extremes|''lowest point: ''junction of the Limpopo and Shashe Rivers 513 m\\''highest point: ''Tsodilo Hills 1,489 m
||Highest Mountains|
||Terrain|predominantly flat to gently rolling tableland; Kalahari Desert in southwest
||Natural Hazards|periodic droughts; seasonal August winds blow from the west, carrying sand and dust across the country, which can obscure visibility
||Natural Resource|diamonds, copper, nickel, salt, soda ash, potash, coal, iron ore, silver
||Land Use|''arable land: ''0.45%\\''permanent crops: ''0%\\''other: ''99.55% (2011)
||Climate|semiarid; warm winters and hot summers
||Irrigated Land|14.39 sq km (2003)
||Renewable Water Resources|12.24 cu km (2011)
||Environment_CurrentIssues|overgrazing; desertification; limited freshwater resources
||Environment - international agreements|''party to: ''Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection, Wetlands\\''signed, but not ratified: ''none of the selected agreements
||Large Cities|Gaborone; Francistown; Molepolole; Selibe Phikwe; Maun\\ __[[Verified]__\\[Important Cities|Geography/Africa/Botswana/Geography/Important_Cities]
||Geography-note|landlocked; population concentrated in eastern part of the country