Molepolole — Molepolole Map Poster & Print

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Molepolole Map Poster & Print

Molepolole lies in the Kweneng District of Botswana, west of Gaborone, on gently rising ground where the eastern hardveld begins to give way to the Kalahari. It is one of the largest villages in the country and the traditional capital of the Bakwena. From above, the settlement spreads widely, with homesteads and plots scattered over a large area rather than packed into a dense centre.

Like other large Tswana villages, Molepolole is organised into wards, each historically associated with a family group and its own meeting place. On the map this shows as a loose, cellular pattern of clusters connected by winding roads, with the main tarred routes running more directly toward Gaborone and further into the Kalahari.

The village is home to the Scottish Livingstone Hospital, whose name recalls the missionary David Livingstone, who worked among the Bakwena in the region in the nineteenth century. Newer housing and government buildings have filled in along the main roads in recent decades. A Molepolole map poster captures the open, spacious form of a settlement shaped by tradition and landscape rather than by a planned grid.