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cached 14h agoPlace details
- Region
- Central District
- Country
- Botswana
- Population
- 42,488
- Timezone
- Africa/Gaborone
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Selebi-Phikwe
- Settlement.settlement_type
- City
- Settlement.image_skyline
- File:BCL old train Monument in Selibe-Phikwe.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Train monument in Selebi-Phikwe
- Settlement.image_flag
- Flag_of_Selebi_Phikwe.png
- Settlement.mapsize1
- l
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Botswana
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 250
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Central
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2022
- Settlement.population_total
- 42488
- 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
- city
- Official name
- Selebi-Phikwe
- Country
- Botswana
- Located in
- Central District
- Population
- 49724
- Elevation
- 878
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
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- native label
- Selebi-Phikwe
- P12749
- Willy Brandt
Sources (2)
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Mining
- Government and infrastructure
- Energy
- Amenities and tourism
- Notable people
- References
- External links
Selebi-Phikwe (also spelt Selibe Phikwe) is a mining town located in the Central District of Botswana. It had a population of 42,488 in 2022. The town is an administrative district, separate from the surrounding Central District.
== Mining == Nickel mining commenced in 1973 and has been the main activity since. The complex includes a mine and a smelter. All operations are now deep mining. Originally there were two tiny places called Selebi and Phikwe, which straddled a large undiscovered deposit of copper and nickel in the area. When the mineral wealth of the area was discovered in the 1960s a mine and a township were built in the woodland between the places with the combined name of Selebi-Phikwe.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Selebi-Phikwe” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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