🇧🇼 Botswana 10 administrative divisions
10 first-level administrative divisions — states, provinces, regions or counties, depending on the country — and 564 cities and towns, each with latitude and longitude. Public domain, free to download, no API key.
The country
- ISO 3166-1
- BW · BWA · 072
- Capital
- Gaborone
- Continent
- Africa
- Currency
- BWP — Botswana pula
- Calling code
- +267
- Internet domain
- .bw
- Divisions
- 10
- Cities and towns
- 564
Divisions
The 10 divisions of Botswana
10 of them carry an ISO 3166-2 code. Counts are cities and towns inside each division.
| Division | ISO 3166-2 | Cities and towns | Population |
|---|---|---|---|
| Central District | BW-CE | 184 | 563,260 |
| Southern District | BW-SO | 95 | 186,831 |
| Kweneng District | BW-KW | 68 | 230,335 |
| North-West District | BW-NW | 67 | 142,970 |
| North-East District | BW-NE | 48 | 132,422 |
| Kgalagadi District | BW-KG | 38 | 50,492 |
| Kgatleng District | BW-KL | 22 | 73,507 |
| Ghanzi District | BW-GH | 20 | 33,170 |
| South-East District | BW-SE | 12 | 276,319 |
| Chobe District | BW-CH | 6 | 23,347 |
A further 4 places could not be matched to a
division and are listed separately in the API as
"unassigned": true.
Get it
Both files, in one request each
# every division of Botswana
curl -s https://api.placedb.org/v1/regions/BW.json
# the cities and towns of one division (id from the file above)
curl -s https://api.placedb.org/v1/cities/BW/<id>.jsonNo key, no account, no rate limit. The endpoints · try it live.