Kang, Botswana

Kang is a village in Kgalagadi District of Botswana. It is situated in the Kalahari Desert and lies on the Trans-Kalahari Highway between Ghanzi in the north and Sekoma in the south. Kang also provides access to the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park in the south-west and the Central Kalahari Game Reserve in the north-east. The route via Ghanzi takes one to the Namibian border, whilst that to Sekoma leads to Gaborone, the capital of Botswana. The population was 5,985 according to the 2011 census.^[1] Kang also falls under the Kgalagadi North constituency whose Member of Parliament is Hon. Phillip Khwae. The village is divided into two wards, Kang North and Kang South.

Kang is served by Kang Airport.

References

↑ "2011 Botswana Population and Housing Census" (PDF). Retrieved 2013-09-11.

Kgalagadi District of the Republic of Botswana

Urban villages	Tsabong

Rural villages	Bogogobo Bokspits Bray Gakhibane Hukuntsi Hunhukwe Inalegolo Kang Khisa Khuis Khawa Kokotsha Kolonkwane Lehututu Lokgwabe Make Makopong Maleshe Maralaleng Maubelo Middlepits Monong Ncaang Ngwatle Omaweneno Phepheng Phuduhudu Rapples Pan Struizendam Tshane Ukwi Vaalhoek Werda Zutswa

Coordinates: 23°40′16″S 22°47′21″E / 23.67111°S 22.78917°E / -23.67111; 22.78917

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