Blank Map of Botswana

The outline of Botswana, plain, with the Okavango River, or with district borders.

Blank Map of Botswana

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Write the name of each numbered district.Answer key

  1. Central
  2. Ghanzi
  3. Kgalagadi
  4. Kgatleng
  5. Kweneng
  6. North East
  7. South East
  8. Southern

Drawn for this site from Natural Earth 5.1.2. Licence: public domain.

Each district is a button. Use the arrow keys to move between them and Enter to choose. Names are read out in Study, and once a district is answered.

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  1. Central
  2. Ghanzi
  3. Kgalagadi
  4. Kgatleng
  5. Kweneng
  6. North East
  7. South East
  8. Southern

How this list was compiled: Items made on 2026-10-01; points are Natural Earth's. THE DRAWING IS DATED IN THE NORTH: Natural Earth has nine districts and Botswana has ten today. The page numbers and asks the eight shapes that are districts of today (Central, Ghanzi, Kgalagadi, Kgatleng, Kweneng, North East, South East, Southern). The ninth shape is the north drawn as one area: it holds the North West District and the Chobe District, is in this file for the drawing and is never asked. Count and every name read on 2026-10-01 in ISO 3166-2:BW as Wikipedia prints it (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-2:BW: ten districts, four towns and two cities; Chobe added again on 2014-10-29) and in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Districts_of_Botswana and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botswana (ten administrative districts, named, and seven urban districts); the United Nations humanitarian office's boundary table for Botswana (https://data.humdata.org/dataset/cod-ab-bwa, source UNFPA) has 17 units at its first level, the ten and the seven, and the Government of Botswana's Local Authorities page (https://www.gov.bw/local-authorities-view, read 2026-10-01) lists the same ten districts and seven urban ones. North East, South East and North West are written without a hyphen, as ISO 3166-2 and the government's list write them; the hyphen is Wikipedia's spelling and counts as the same typed answer. The verifier laid the eight numbered shapes over the United Nations set: 93 to 100 percent the same land, South East 78 percent (the rest is Gaborone and Lobatse, drawn inside it). The sheet layer rivers holds the Okavango, the Chobe and the Limpopo, but only the Okavango shows inside the country; the other two are border rivers whose lines lie on the outline. The cities and towns that rank as districts of their own are specks at this scale and are drawn inside the district around them, as the source's own field files them. The typed codes the generator adds (BW-CE) are left out of the accepted answers. Licence: public domain (Natural Earth terms of use: https://www.naturalearthdata.com/about/terms-of-use/)

The drawing: Drawn for this site from Natural Earth 5.1.2, ne_10m_admin_1_states_provinces (scale 1:10,000,000), https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/v5.1.2/geojson/ne_10m_admin_1_states_provinces.geojson, downloaded 2026-09-19. Surrounding land from Natural Earth 5.1.2, ne_10m_admin_0_countries (scale 1:10,000,000), https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/v5.1.2/geojson/ne_10m_admin_0_countries.geojson, downloaded 2026-09-19. Layers that cannot be tapped from Natural Earth 5.1.2, ne_10m_rivers_lake_centerlines (scale 1:10,000,000), https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/v5.1.2/geojson/ne_10m_rivers_lake_centerlines.geojson, downloaded 2026-09-19. Lambert azimuthal equal-area projection centred on 22.6°S 24.9°E. Outlines simplified; small islands are left out. Licence: public domain (Natural Earth terms of use: https://www.naturalearthdata.com/about/terms-of-use/)

How it works

This blank map of Botswana opens on the plain outline, with four neighbors as plain land around it. Switches add the Okavango River and district borders. The map source predates today's list, so eight of ten districts carry a number.

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Outline first

The sheet opens with nothing inside the outline. Press Print this map for a sheet to draw the Kalahari Desert, the Okavango Delta, towns or the ten districts on. Borders adds the district lines and Rivers adds the Okavango. The Chobe and the Limpopo are border rivers and lie on the outline itself.

Why eight districts have numbers

Numbered and Named label eight of the ten districts. The north is drawn as one area with no number. It holds two districts, North West and Chobe, and the map source has no line between them. Cities and towns are not drawn: each lies inside the district around it.

  • Chobe is the smaller of the two districts without a number, at the northeastern tip of the country around Kasane.

Questions and answers

How many districts does Botswana have?

Ten administrative districts: Central, Chobe, Ghanzi, Kgalagadi, Kgatleng, Kweneng, North East, North West, South East and Southern. Seven cities and towns rank as urban districts beside them. This map numbers eight of the ten.

Why does the north have no number?

Two districts share it: North West and Chobe. The map source draws them as one area, as it was before Chobe was listed as a district of its own again, so the sheet shows one area there.

What is the capital of Botswana?

Gaborone, the largest city. It lies in the South East District, the smallest shape on the map.

Which countries border Botswana?

South Africa (south and southeast), Namibia (west and north), Zambia (north) and Zimbabwe (northeast). Botswana has no coast.

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