Botswana

The country calling code for Botswana is +267. Country calling codes identify the destination country when placing an international call. The international access prefix used to leave your originating country varies by telephone network. On mobile phones, the + symbol is generally used instead. After the country code, dial the local Botswana number, dropping any leading zero used for domestic dialling.

Botswana is assigned BW as its ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code and BWA as its alpha-3 code. Alpha-2 codes are the two-letter codes used in web addresses, currency pairs and shipping forms. Alpha-3 codes are the three-letter codes used in banking, aviation and international standards work. The internet country code top-level domain for Botswana is .bw. ISO country codes are standardized identifiers, but they can change when countries or territories undergo changes in international status or classification.

The official currency of Botswana is the Botswana pula, with the ISO 4217 code BWP and the symbol P. Prices, salaries and official accounts inside Botswana are quoted in BWP. Exchange rates move daily, so check a live rate before converting rather than relying on a figure you saw last week.

The primary time zone for Botswana is +02:00, currently UTC+02:00. The clock reads from your own device, so it follows daylight saving rather than showing a fixed offset.

The capital of Botswana is Gaborone. Botswana sits in Africa, specifically the Southern Africa subregion. Its approximate centre point is -22.00000000, 24.00000000. Traffic in Botswana drives on the left. Languages recorded for Botswana: English, Tswana.

Botswana shares a land border with 4 countries: Namibia, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Land borders are not the same as nearest countries: a country across a narrow strait can be closer than one you share a fence with. The nearby page ranks countries by straight-line distance instead.