Botswana

Botswana

Botswana ranks 185th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Greenland, U.S. Virgin Islands, and Andorra. Memorable people born in present day Botswana include Seretse Khama, Quett Masire, and Festus Mogae. Memorable people who died in Botswana include Seretse Khama, Quett Masire, and Johan August Wahlberg. Botswana has been the birth place of many politicians and athletes and the death place of many politicians and biologists.

Botswana, officially the Republic of Botswana, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Botswana is topographically flat, with approximately 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 by the Kazungula Bridge to Zambia, across the world's 2nd shortest border between two countries. Read more on Wikipedia