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- Botswana: Geography
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- <article><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Botswana
- Geography</hdr><body>
- <p>Location: Southern Africa, north of South Africa
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- <l>Area:</l>
- <l> total area: 600,370 km2</l>
- <l> land area: 585,370 km2</l>
- <l> comparative area: slightly smaller than Texas</l>
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- <p>Land boundaries: total 4,013 km, Namibia 1,360 km, South
- Africa 1,840 km, Zimbabwe 813 km
- </p>
- <p>Coastline: 0 km (landlocked)
- </p>
- <p>Maritime claims: none; landlocked
- </p>
- <p>International disputes: short section of boundary with Namibia
- is indefinite; disputed island with Namibia in the Chobe River;
- quadripoint with Namibia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe is in
- disagreement; recent dispute with Namibia over uninhabited
- Sidudu Island in Linyanti River
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- <p>Climate: semiarid; warm winters and hot summers
- </p>
- <p>Terrain: predominately flat to gently rolling tableland;
- Kalahari Desert in southwest
- </p>
- <p>Natural resources: diamonds, copper, nickel, salt, soda ash,
- potash, coal, iron ore, silver
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- <list>
- <l>Land use:</l>
- <l> arable land: 2%</l>
- <l> permanent crops: 0%</l>
- <l> meadows and pastures: 75%</l>
- <l> forest and woodland: 2%</l>
- <l> other: 21%</l>
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- <p>Irrigated land: 20 km2 (1989 est.)
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- <p>Environment: overgrazing, desertification
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- <p>Note: landlocked
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