Botswana is located in Southern Africa north of South Africa. It covers an area slightly smaller than Texas. Landlocked with 70% of the country covered by the Kalahari Desert, the climate is semiarid with warm winters and hot summers. The terrain is mostly a flat to gently rolling tableland with the Kalahari Desert in the southwest. Natural resources include diamonds, copper, nickel, salt, soda ash, potash, coal, iron ore and silver.

Botswana has maintained one of the world's highest economic growth rates since independence in 1966. It has moved from one of the poorest countries in the world to a middle-income country (per capita GDP of $10,000 in 2005). Diamond mining has fueled much of the expansion and currently accounts for more than one-third of GDP and for 70-80% of export earnings. However, there is an expected leveling off in diamond mining production anticipated. Other key sectors are tourism, financial services, subsistence farming, and cattle raising. However there are high rates of unemployment (perhaps 40%) and poverty, which is not surprising with one of the highest HIV/AIDS infection rates (37%) in the world. Botswana does have one of the most progressive and comprehensive programs for dealing with AIDS.

Botswana has around 136,500 Telephone lines and 60,000 Internet users

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