Kweneng District

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Kweneng District
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Basic data
Country Botswana
Capital Molepolole
surface 35,890 km²
Residents 304,549 (2011 census)
density 8.5 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2 BW-KW

Coordinates: 24 ° 25 ′  S , 25 ° 32 ′  E

Kweneng is a district of Botswana and the center of the Bakwena tribe of the Batswana , the first ethnic group in Botswana to be converted to Christianity by David Livingstone . The district's seat of government is Molepolole , Botswana's most densely populated city after Gaborone and Francistown . Other larger towns are Mogoditshane , Thamaga , Gabane and Kopong . 304,549 people live in the 35,890 km² area, which is divided into the sub-districts Kweneng East and Kweneng West .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2011 census (English, PDF), accessed on December 14, 2014