Botswana (/bɒtˈswɑːnə/ (About this soundlisten), also UK: /bʊt-, bʊˈtʃw-/[16]), officially the Republic of Botswana (Setswana: Lefatshe la Botswana;[needs IPA] Kalanga: Hango yeBotswana), is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Botswana is topographically flat, with up to 70 percent of its territory being the Kalahari Desert. It is bordered by South Africa to the south and southeast, Namibia to the west and north, and Zimbabwe to the northeast. It is connected to Zambia across the short Zambezi River border by the Kazungula Bridge.[17]
A mid-sized country of slightly over 2.3 million people,[18] it is one of the most sparsely populated countries in the world. About 11.6 percent of the p...