24 Facts About Gaborone

City of Gaborone is named after Chief Gaborone of the Tlokwa tribe, who once controlled land nearby.

Gaborone was once one of the fastest-growing cities in the world, and this has created problems with housing and illegal settlements.

Gaborone is the economic capital as well as the government capital; it is headquarters to numerous companies and the Botswana Stock Exchange.

Gaborone is home to the Southern African Development Community, a regional economic community established in 1980.

Gaberones, a shortening of "Gaborone's Village", was named after Chief Gaborone of the Tlokwa, whose home village was across the river from the Government Camp, the name of the colonial government headquarters.

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Buildings in early Gaborone include assembly buildings, government offices, a power station, a hospital, schools, a radio station, a telephone exchange, police stations, a post office, and more than 1,000 houses.

In 1964, Gaborone only had 3,855 citizens; seven years later, the city had almost 18,000 residents.

Gaborone is surrounded by the following cities: Ramotswa to the southeast, Mogoditshane to the northwest, and Mochudi to the east, and Tlokweng across the river.

Gaborone has been affected by three floods based on records going back to 1995, one in 2000, one in 2001 that caused an estimated 5,000,000 Botswana pula worth of damage, and one in 2006.

Gaborone is the fourth least expensive city for expatriates in Africa, coming in above Addis Ababa, Ethiopia at 211th, Kampala, Uganda at 202nd and Windhoek, Namibia at 198th.

Gaborone Game Reserve is a 600-hectare park east of the city on Limpopo Drive.

Gaborone is controlled by the Gaborone City Council, the wealthiest council in Botswana.

Gaborone has many primary and secondary schools, both public and private.

Newspapers published in Gaborone include Mmegi, The Botswana Gazette, The Monitor, Midweek Sun, The Patriot on Sunday, Sunday Standard, and The Voice.

Today, the Gaborone Broadcasting Company and Botswana TV provide television programming for Gaborone.

Much of the food for Gaborone comes from north of the city with some smaller-scale farms on the southern end.

Gaborone's CBD is home to the new Square Mall, The Tower, the new SADC headquarters, the Industrial Court, a court specifically for settling trade disputes, and the Three Dikgosi Monument, a landmark featuring the statues of Khama III, Sebele I, and Bathoen I, three dikgosi, or chiefs, who traveled to Great Britain to establish the Bechuanaland Protectorate separate from Southern Rhodesia or the Cape Colony.

The city of Gaborone was originally constructed as a small town, so the Gaborone Dam needed to be built to provide water for all its citizens.

In 2008, the city of Gaborone consumed 25,657,363 kilolitres of water, and the water consumption per capita was 0.

Gaborone has some of the highest water tariffs in the country because of high transportation costs and high water consumption.

The railway station in Gaborone is located south of the Parliament House in the city's centre.

However, Gaborone has the most air passenger traffic, accounting for 51.

Highways in and around Gaborone include the Trans-Kalahari Highway, A1 Highway, and the Cairo-Cape Town Highway.

Gaborone has the highest number of vehicle registration renewals at 73,206 in 2008.