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Botswana vs South Africa

Botswana and South Africa are compared here on capital city, currency, country calling code, ISO codes, population, area, languages and driving side, using the same source fields for both so every row is like for like.

First country

Second country

Botswana

BWA · +267

VS

South Africa

ZAF · +27

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Numeric rows carry a proportional bar. The larger figure is marked.

Official name

Botswana

South Africa

Capital

Gaborone

Pretoria

Country calling code

+267

+27

ISO alpha-2

BW

ZA

ISO alpha-3

BWA

ZAF

Currency

Botswana pula

South African rand

Currency code

BWP

ZAR

Population

2,351,625

59,308,690larger

Area

582,000 km²

1,221,037 km²larger

Continent

Africa

Region

Southern Africa

Languages

English, Tswana

Afrikaans, English, Southern Ndebele, Southern Sotho, Swati, Tswana, Tsonga, Venda, Xhosa, Zulu

Time zone

UTC+02:00

Land borders

4

6

Internet domain

.bw

.za

Drives on the

left

Centre point

-22, 24

-29, 24

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