Kang (Botswana)
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| Coordinates | 23 ° 40 ′ S , 22 ° 47 ′ E | ||
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| Country | Botswana | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | BW | ||
| height | 1130 m | ||
| Residents | 5985 (2011) | ||
Kang is a village in the Kgalagadi District in Botswana . Kang is located in the Kalahari , around 300 km northwest of Gaborone and 270 north of the district capital Tshabong . The place is on the Trans-Kalahari trunk road between Ghanzi , which is 250 km northwest of Kang, and Sekoma at the intersection of A2 and A20 150 km south. The place is about halfway between Windhoek and Pretoria , and halfway on the A2 between the border crossings to Namibia and South Africa .
To the southwest of Kang there is access to the Kgalagadi Transfrontier National Park and to the northeast to the Central Kalahari Game Reserve .
In 2011 the place had 5,985 inhabitants, ten years earlier it had been 4,124.
With the Kang Airport the place has its own airfield.
The seat of the dean of the south-western church district of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Botswana (ELCB), who maintains a partnership with the church district Simmern-Trarbach, is located in Kang . This goes back to the work of the Kang Hukuntsi Mission of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Republic of Namibia , which began in southwest Botswana in the 1970s and was supported by the United Evangelical Mission , the former Rhenish Mission Society .
Web links
- Kang, Botswana Page , weather data and media files at Global Gazetteer
Individual evidence
- ↑ Central Statistics Office: 2011 Botswana Population and Housing Census: Alphabetical Index of Villages , p. B 2 (pdf; 144 kB); accessed on March 1, 2014.
- ↑ Distribution of population by sex by villages and their associated localities: 2001 population and housing census ( Memento of February 19, 2005 in the Internet Archive ); accessed on March 1, 2014.
- ^ Dieter Junker: Botswana partnership: on a common path for over 20 years ; Article on the website of the Simmern-Trarbach church district from November 10, 2005.
- ^ Evangelical Lutheran Church in SA- Botswana ; As of March 12, 2007; accessed on March 1, 2014