🇧🇼 Botswana
Gaborone
Gaborone (population 270,000) is the capital and the most modern single city in Botswana — the most precisely planned-from-scratch single southern African capital: built as the new capital of independent Botswana in 1966 (the most precisely 1966-Botswana-independence-year-dated single new African capital construction). Botswana is the most precisely De-Beers-diamond-royalties-funded single African economic miracle: the most comprehensively diamond-export-GDP-dependent and the most dramatically GDP-per-capita-growth single African country (the most rapidly economically developed single post-independence African state — from one of the most impoverished single African countries in 1966 to the most middle-income single southern African country by 2000). The Mokolodi Nature Reserve (the most accessible single Botswana wildlife reserve from Gaborone), the Three Dikgosi Monument (the most important single Botswana national heritage monument: commemorating the three Tswana kings who travelled to London in 1895), and the inspiration for the globally beloved "The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency" novel series by Alexander McCall Smith.