Key facts
- Country
- Botswana
- Capital
- Molepolole
- Largest
- Mogoditshane
- Sub districts
- List Molepolole / Lentsweletau , Letlhakeng , Mogoditshane / Thamaga
- Type
- District council
- Total
- 35,890 km (13,860 sq mi)
- Density
- 10.81/km (28.00/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+2 ( Central Africa Time )
- Hdi 2019
- 0.721 , high · 4th
- Website
- Official website
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Kweneng is one of the districts of Botswana and is the recent historical homeland of the Bakwena people, the first group in Botswana converted to Christianity by famed missionary David Livingstone. Various landmarks, including Livingstone's Cave, allude to this history. The seat of the district's government is Molepolole, Botswana's most populous village (only trailing Botswana's two cities: Gaborone and Francistown).
It borders Central District in northeast, Kgatleng District on the east, South-East District in southeast, Southern District in south, Kgalagadi District in the west, Ghanzi District in the north. The district is administered by a district administration and district council which are responsible for local administration. Manyana rock paintings in Manyana village and Kgosi Sechele I Museum are the major attractions in the district.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kweneng District” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.