Mmadinare
Sign in to saveMmadinare is a village in the Central District of Botswana, 15 kilometers from Selibe Phikwe. The village is slowly growing into a town, with a population estimate of about 13 000 (2004 census) people of different tribes including Bangwato, Batalaote, Babirwa, and others. Mmadinare is located in the center of hills; like other villages in Southern Africa it was started during wars and hills were used as a form of protection from enemies, as they were able to see them from a distance.
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- Locality
- Mmadinare
- Region
- Central District
- Country
- Botswana
- Population
- 13,198
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Mmadinare
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Village
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Botswana
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Botswana
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Central District
- Settlement.population_total
- 12086
- Settlement.population_as_of
- Census 2011
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- auto
- Settlement.timezone
- Central Africa Time
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +2
- Settlement.timezone_DST
- not observed
- Settlement.utc_offset_DST
- +2
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- village
- Country
- Botswana
- Located in
- Central District
- Population
- 13198
- Area
- 18.1
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
Sources (3)
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Encyclopedic overview
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Mmadinare is a village in the Central District of Botswana, 15 kilometers from Selibe Phikwe. The village is slowly growing into a town, with a population estimate of about 13 000 (2004 census) people of different tribes including Bangwato, Batalaote, Babirwa, and others. Mmadinare is located in the center of hills; like other villages in Southern Africa it was started during wars and hills were used as a form of protection from enemies, as they were able to see them from a distance.
==Geography== Motloutse River passes on the northern part of the village called, which supplies the Letsibogo Dam with water, on its way to Shashe River down further east. The river is partly depleted as a result of sand mining by the copper mine in Selibe Phikwe, which gets sand from the river to wash their copper ores.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mmadinare” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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