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Africa · Southern Africa

Botswana 🇧🇼

Capital: Gaborone

ISO 3166-1 alpha-2

BW

ISO 3166-1 alpha-3

BWA

Phone dial code

+267

Internet TLD

.bw

Currency

BWP P

Exchange rate

1 USD = 13.853 BWP

Population

2,359,609

Area (km²)

600,370

BWP → USD conversions

USDBWP
$113.85 P
$569.27 P
$10138.53 P
$50692.65 P
$1001,385.3 P
$5006,926.5 P
$100013,853 P

Rate refreshed every 4 hours. See live BWP rates for all currencies →

Timezones

Africa/Gaborone

CAT · UTC+02:00 · Central Africa Time

States / provinces · 16 total

Central
CE · district
Chobe
CH · district
Francistown
FR · city
Gaborone
GA · city
Ghanzi
GH · district
Jwaneng
JW · town
Kgalagadi
KG · district
Kgatleng
KL · district
Kweneng
KW · district
Lobatse
LO · town
North-East
NE · district
North-West
NW · district
Selibe Phikwe
SP · town
South-East
SE · district
Southern
SO · district
Sowa Town
ST · town

Cities in Central · sample from district

Want every city in Botswana? See all 150,000+ cities or query the /v1/countries/BW/states endpoint.

Country name in other languages

ar

بوتسوانا

br

Botswana

de

Botswana

es

Botswana

fa

بوتسوانا

fr

Botswana

hi

बोत्सवाना

hr

Bocvana

it

Botswana

ja

ボツワナ

ko

보츠와나

nl

Botswana

Get this data from the API

curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
  "https://api.apogeoapi.com/v1/countries/BW?include=full"

# Returns:
# {
#   "iso2": "BW", "iso3": "BWA",
#   "name": "Botswana",
#   "capital": "Gaborone",
#   "currency": "BWP",
#   "currencyRate": { "rate": 13.853, "base": "USD" },
#   "phoneCode": "267",
#   "flagUrl": "https://flagcdn.com/bw.svg",
#   ...
# }

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