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The Botswana–Namibia border is a long border between
The Botswana–Namibia border is a long border between Botswana
Botswana, officially the Republic of Botswana, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Botswana is topographically flat, with approximately 70 percent of its territory part of the Kalahari Desert. It is bordered by South Africa to the sou ...
and Namibia
Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country on the west coast of Southern Africa. Its borders include the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south; in the no ...
.
Border crossings
Border crossings:Namibia
*Buitepos
Buitepos () is a small settlement in the Omaheke Region in eastern Namibia. It is situated on the national road B6 road (Namibia), B6 which is part of the Trans-Kalahari Highway, and a border post between Namibia and Botswana. The proposed Trans- ...
* Shakawe
* Ngoma
* Impalila
Impalila (sometimes spelt Mpalila) is an island in the Zambezi Region, the far eastern tip of Namibia, bounded on the north by the waters of the Zambezi river and on the south by the Chobe River. It is home to some 2500–3000 mainly Tswana (from ...
Other
Zambia
*Kazungula
Kazungula is a small border town in Zambia, lying on the north bank of the Zambezi River about west of Livingstone on the M10 Road.
At Kazungula, the territories of four countries (Zambia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, and Namibia) come close to mee ...
Sedudu island dispute
In 1992, the uninhabitedSedudu
Sedudu Island (known as Kasikili Island in Namibia) is a fluvial island in the Chobe River, in Botswana adjacent to the border with Namibia. The island was the subject of a territorial dispute between these countries, resolved by a 1999 ruling o ...
island sparked a border dispute between Botswana and Namibia. The island is located in the Cuando River
The Cuando (or Kwando) is a river in south-central Africa flowing through Angola and Namibia's Caprivi Strip and into the Linyanti Swamp on the northern border of Botswana. Below the swamp, the river is called the Linyanti River and, farther east, ...
, which is considered a part of the border between two countries. Judges at the World Court
The International Court of Justice (ICJ; , CIJ), or colloquially the World Court, is the only international court that adjudicates general disputes between nations, and gives advisory opinions on international legal issues as interpretati ...
ruled that the island belonged to Botswana in December 1999.
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