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Botswana

//bɑːtˈswɑːnə// name

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A country in Southern Africa. Capital: Gaborone.; Bechuanaland, fully the Bechuanaland Protectorate, a colony of the United Kingdom from 1885 to 1966
  2. 2
    A country in Southern Africa. Capital: Gaborone.; The Republic of Botswana, since 1966.

    "After independence, Rhodesia changed its name to Zimbabwe, Nyasaland to Malawi, and Bechuanaland to Botswana."

Etymology

Borrowed from Tswana Botswana, from bo- + Tswana, of uncertain origin.

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