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Worth seeing in and around Gaborone

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    University of Botswana

    University in Gaborone, Botswana

    2.8 km · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Gaborone Dam

    Dam in South-East District

    5.4 km · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Botswana National Stadium

    Stadium

    2.5 km · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Botswana National Museum

    Museum in Gaborone, Botswana

    1.2 km · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    National Library Service of Botswana

    Legal deposit and copyright library for Botswana, national library

    2 km · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    University of Botswana Stadium

    The University of Botswana Stadium is a stadium located in Gaborone, in Botswana, owned by the University of Botswana. It is used for football matches. The stadium has a capacity of approximately 8,500 people.

    3.2 km · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Christ the King Cathedral

    Cathedral

    1 km · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Three Dikgosi Monument

    Monument in Gaborone, Botswana

    1.1 km · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Botho College

    Private university in Botswana

    4.6 km · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    National Botanical Garden

    Botswana's National Botanical Garden

    3.9 km · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Gaborone

Airports
Sir Seretse Khama (GBE), 11 km · Lanseria (HLA), 248 km · O.R. Tambo (JNB), 287 km
  • Francistown → Gaborone
    421 km · quickest by air, 4h 3m · $140–220
  • Maun → Gaborone
    579 km · quickest by air, 4h 15m · $150–230
  • Kasane → Gaborone
    766 km · quickest by air, 4h 30m · $170–250
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Gaborone

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Gaborone. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    SossusvleiNA

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    1,065 km
  2. 02
    South Luangwa National Park and MfuweZM

    12 ways of moving, 36 sources

    1,425 km
  3. 03
    Cape Maclear (Chembe)MW

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    1,509 km
  4. 04
    Ilha de MoçambiqueMZ

    11 ways of moving, 47 sources

    1,881 km
  5. 05
    ZanzibarTZ

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    2,495 km

If you know how people move in Gaborone – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

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