Tshabong, also spelled Tsabong, is the administrative centre of the
Kgalagadi District Kgalagadi is a district in southwest Botswana, lying along the country's border with Namibia and South Africa. The administrative center is Tsabong. The district of Kgalagadi covers a large part of the Kalahari Desert. It has a total area of 105,20 ...
in
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 ...
. It is located in the
Kalahari Desert
The Kalahari Desert is a large semiarid climate, semiarid sandy savanna in Southern Africa covering including much of Botswana as well as parts of Namibia and South Africa.
It is not to be confused with the Angolan, Namibian, and South African ...
. The population was 8939 in the 2011
census
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.
The primary hospital in Tshabong serves a huge outlying area and includes several
tuberculosis
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refuges where patients and their families can stay while undergoing lengthy outpatient treatment.
Near the town is the Tshabong
kimberlite
Kimberlite is an igneous rock and a rare variant of peridotite. It is most commonly known as the main host matrix for diamonds. It is named after the town of Kimberley, Northern Cape, Kimberley in South Africa, where the discovery of an 83.5-Car ...
field, one of the largest diamondiferous kimberlite fields in the world.
Tshabong is the site of Botswana's coldest recorded temperature, registering a temperature of . The record high temperature registered in Tsabong was .
The town is served by
Tshabong Airport
Tshabong Airport , also known as Tsabong Airport, is an airport serving Tsabong, a town in the Kgalagadi District of Botswana.
See also
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*Transport in Botswana
Transportation in Botswana is provided by an extensive network of railways, high ...
Government of Botswana
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. Retrieved on 26 March 2013.
In September 2023, Botswana's first
carbon credit
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program, led by the startup Gazelle Ecosolutions, began in and around Tsabong.
The
solar eclipse of November 25, 2030
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Neo Moroka
Neo Moroka is Chairman of De Beers Botswana. He formerly was a politician in Botswana, serving as Minister of Trade and Industry from 2004 to 2009.
Moroka earned degrees in ecology and was an agricultural advisor to Barclays Bank from 1984 to 19 ...