Search Geography Explorer

Search countries, cities, rivers, lakes, deserts, oceans, islands and more

Kanye

#1316 in World

Botswana

1 / 3
© CNJeremCC BY 4.0
Population
40K
Coordinates
-24.9761, 25.3442
Category
cities

About

Kanye is a village in southern Botswana, located 83 kilometres (52 mi) south-west of the capital, Gaborone. It is the administrative centre of the Southern District, and had a population of 48,028 as of the 2022 Population and Housing Census. This is an increase compared to the 45,196 of the 2011 census, making it the ninth-largest village in the country. Kanye is the traditional capital of the Ngwaketse tribe, who first settled in the area in the 1790s.

Fun facts

More fun facts like this

More about Kanye

Text adapted from the Wikipedia article Kanye, Botswana, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read full article