Populated Places in Botswana from OpenStreetMap

Botswana settlements and residential areas exported from OpenStreetMap. The data includes named cities, towns, villages, suburbs, and residential land, tagged with `place=*` and `landuse=residential`. It was last updated on 2026-05-14 by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team.

Use Cases

• Provide demographic context for regional planning based on settlement locations.
• Conduct settlement-level targeting for humanitarian or development projects based on residential areas.
• Perform population distribution analysis using the hierarchy of named places.

Strengths

• Includes multiple settlement types (cities, towns, villages, suburbs) and residential land.
• Available in multiple geospatial formats (GEOPACKAGE, KML, SHP, GEOJSON, JSON).
• Sourced from OpenStreetMap, a free, collaborative mapping project.

Limitations

• Completeness varies by region; remote areas may be incomplete.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap

Collection Method

Volunteer-collaborated mapping export.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 01:39:39.864537; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Botswana