Botswana

Botswana in pictures

Flag, landscapes, landmarks and wildlife you can meet in the games. Photographs come from each subject’s Wikipedia article.

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  Flag

  Flag of Botswana

  National flag

• 🌍Okavango Delta

  Landscape

  Okavango Delta

  A real place in Botswana

• 🛶Okavango Delta

  Landmark

  Okavango Delta

  A river that never reaches the sea — it spreads into a giant inland wetland.

• 🧂Makgadikgadi salt pans

  Landmark

  Makgadikgadi salt pans

  The dry bed of a lake that was once bigger than Switzerland.

• 🎨Tsodilo Hills

  Landmark

  Tsodilo Hills

  Over 4,500 rock paintings — the 'Louvre of the desert'.

• 🦁Lion

  Wildlife

  Lion

  Lions are the only big cats that live in family groups, called prides.

• 🐘African elephant

  Wildlife

  African elephant

  The largest land animal alive — and it talks through the ground with rumbles.

• 🦓Plains zebra

  Wildlife

  Plains zebra

  No two zebras have the same stripe pattern, like fingerprints.

• 🐆Cheetah

  Wildlife

  Cheetah

  Fastest land animal — from standstill to 100 km/h in three seconds.

• 🐂Blue wildebeest

  Wildlife

  Blue wildebeest

  Calves can stand and run within minutes of being born.

• 🦡Meerkat

  Wildlife

  Meerkat

  One meerkat always stands guard while the others dig for food.

• 🐕Spotted hyena

  Wildlife

  Spotted hyena

  Clans are led by females, and hyenas hunt far more than they scavenge.

• 🐕‍🦺African wild dog

  Wildlife

  African wild dog

  The pack sneezes to vote on whether it is time to hunt.

• 🦌Gemsbok oryx

  Wildlife

  Gemsbok oryx

  It can let its body heat up to 45 °C rather than waste water sweating.

• 🦌Springbok

  Wildlife

  Springbok

  It 'pronks' — bouncing stiff-legged two metres into the air.

• 🦌Sitatunga

  Wildlife

  Sitatunga

  Its splayed hooves let it walk on floating swamp mats.

• 🦌Red lechwe

  Wildlife

  Red lechwe

  It runs *into* deep water to escape lions, splashing at full speed.

• 🐜Cathedral termites

  Wildlife

  Cathedral termites

  Their mounds are air-conditioned by design and can top eight metres.

• 🐂Common eland

  Wildlife

  Common eland

  A tonne in weight and still able to clear a two-metre fence.

• 🐕Black-backed jackal

  Wildlife

  Black-backed jackal

  Pairs mate for life and hunt, raise pups and defend a patch together.

• 🦊Bat-eared fox

  Wildlife

  Bat-eared fox

  It listens for termites chewing underground, then digs them out.

• 🏙️Gaborone

  City

  Gaborone

  Capital of Botswana

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