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 Location of Botswana in Southern Africa
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| Capital (and largest city) | Gaborone | |||||
| Official languages | English, Setswana | |||||
| Demonym(s) | Botswanan | |||||
| Government | Unitary Semi-Presidential republic | |||||
| - | President | Ian Khama | ||||
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| - | Kingdom of Warrenia | 15 April 1965 | ||||
| - | Abolition of monarchy | 20 July 1973 | ||||
| - | Fall of Rhodes City | 5 November 2022 | ||||
| Area | ||||||
| - | Total | 640,731 km2 247,388 sq mi |
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| Population | ||||||
| - | Estimate | 2,544,894 (116th) | ||||
| Currency | Botswanan pula (BWP) | |||||
| Drives on the | left | |||||
Botswana, officially the Republic of Botswana, is a landlocked country in southern Africa. It is bordered by Mutapa and the Boer Republic to the south and southeast, Namibia to the west and north, Angola to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the northeast and Zambia the north.
For most of its history, Botswana was officially called Warrenia, starting in 1965 when the British were expelled and the Kingdom of Warrenia was established. This would go on until 1973 when a coup d'etat occured and established the fascist State of Warrenia, which would eventually join the Swartist Brotherhood along with the Boer Republic and Avizia, which the three suffered embargoes from the League of Nations. Botswana would be established on 5 November 2022 during the Great African War after the fascist state was overthrown to establish a democratic government. On 10 January 2023, both Botswana and Angola (formerly Avizia) would join the League of Nations, becoming its newest members.
Its surface area of 640,731 square kilometers makes Botswana the 15th-largest country in Africa and the 45th-largest in the world. With a population of over 2.5 million inhabitants, it is the 32nd-most populous country in Africa and the 116th in the world.
History[]
Pre-colonization[]
Botswana is often viewed as a confluence of peoples. It is believed by some researchers to be the birthplace of human beings, and from there they expanded across the globe. Botswana later became a part of the expansion of the Bantu peoples crossing the Limpopo River. From Botswana, many peoples moved further south and formed the later Sotho and Nguni peoples of modern day South Africa.
The Bantu peoples within Botswana formed an organized tribal system. They came into contact often with other cultures, whom they derived influence from. Separate cultures in various parts of modern day Botswana soon formed.
The first Europeans to come upon Botswana were missionaries and traders, seeking conversion of the various peoples or trade in ivory. European influence later saw the introduction of agriculture tools like the plough previously unknown to the residents of the land.
Bechualand Protectorate[]
Botswana's people were provided protection by the British in 1885, an effort spearheaded by Cecil Rhodes. Britain in the following years deceived its way into attaining land in which vast mineral deposits lay. The soon thriving mineral industry attracted a number of white settlers into the region. Gradually, the protectorate was brought under further and further British rule until the people of Botswana had no power left. It had become a de-facto colony.
Kingdom of Warrenia[]
Main article: Kingdom of Warrenia
State of Warrenia[]
Main article: State of Warrenia
Post-war[]
In November 2022, during the Great African War, the regime of Warrenia was defeated and democracy was restored in the country, which renamed itself back to Botswana. Ian Khama took over as the interim President of Botswana on 5 November 2022. Elections would be held on 15 December 2022 which saw Ian Khama win the Presidential Election and his recently unbanned Botswana Democratic Party win a majority in Parliament.
In his new years address, President Khama announced an ambitious project called "Reconstruction". The goal being for Botswana to open up trade with the rest of the world, something prevented during the Warrenian era. The goal being to use trade revenues to finance welfare and infrastructure projects in the majority-black areas of Botswana, areas which were often underdeveloped and deprived of resources in the decades of Warrenian rule.
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