Botswana

Facts

What the numbers say about Botswana

• Russia, the largest place listed, is 29.3× the size of Botswana.
• Botswana ranks 47th of 239 by area but only 144th of 237 by population: it holds fewer people than its size suggests.
• At 4.3 people per km², Botswana is the 174th most densely populated of the 185 places over 1,000 km²; the median is 72 per km².
• Botswana lies at 22°S, close to the equator, where a standard web map (Web Mercator) is nearly true to size: it inflates area by only about 1.2×.
• Laid out flat, Botswana's main territory stretches about 1,020 km north to south and 965 km east to west.
• Wikidata's official figure of 582,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 579,000 km², to within 2%.

How Botswana measures up

Botswana holds 1.9% of the land area and 0.2% of the people of the 54 countries listed for Africa. In Southern Africa it is the 3rd largest of 5.

Where Botswana sits

• Botswana's centre lies at 22.2°S, 23.8°E, in the southern and eastern hemispheres, about 2,460 km from the equator.
• Its main territory spans 27°S to 18°S, about 1,010 km from its southern edge to its northern.

If Botswana had other densities

• At Bangladesh's density of 1,252 people per km², Botswana would have 725.2 million people. It has 2.5 million.
• At Canada's density of 3.7 people per km², Botswana would have 2.2 million people. It has 2.5 million.
• At the median density of the places listed, 72 per km², it would have 41.9 million.

Compare Botswana

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