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Botswana
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The largest game reserve in Botswana and the second-largest in the world, covering 52800 square kilometers of semi-desert savanna in the Kalahari's central plateau.
OpenBotswana's first national park, centred on the Chobe River in the north, renowned for one of Africa's largest elephant populations and diverse ecosystems ranging from riverfront forest to mopane woodland.
OpenBotswana's capital and largest city, built on the edge of the southeastern hardveld ridge where the Kgale and Omko hills create a distinctive backdrop to a spacious well-planned urban centre.
OpenOne of the world's largest salt pan complexes, covering roughly 12000 square kilometers of Botswana's central basin, the legacy of an ancient superlake that dried up over geological time.
OpenA vast inland delta where the Okavango River spreads across the Kalahari Desert, creating one of Africa's richest wildlife ecosystems through a seasonal flood pulse that transforms lagoons, channels, and islands.
OpenA UNESCO World Heritage Site in northwestern Botswana, Tsodilo Hills is a dramatic cluster of four quartzite mountains with over 450 documented rock art sites containing thousands of paintings spanning the Stone Age to recent centuries.
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