Francistown

Francistown is the second largest metropolis in Botswana, with a populace of about a 100,079 and a hundred and fifty,800 inhabitants for its agglomeration at the 2011 census. And regularly described as the "Capital of the North." It is located in eastern Botswana, approximately four hundred kilometres north-northeast from the capital, Gaborone. Francistown is placed at the confluence of the Tati and Inchwe rivers, and close to the Shashe River and ninety kilometres from the global border with Zimbabwe. Francistown became the centre of southern Africa's first gold rush and is still surrounded with the aid of old and deserted mines. The City of Francistown is an administrative district, separated from North-East District.

It is run by using Francistown City Council. Although evidence of habitation through people is going lower back round 10,000 years, written proof is greater latest. The Matabele people colonised the location in the 1830s on their manner to Bulawayo, bringing their lifestyle and impact to the BaKalanga/Kalanga location of north-japanese Botswana. Reportedly, Nyangabgwe become the nearest village to Francistown to have been visited through Europeans, when it became visited with the aid of the missionary, Robert Moffat. Moffat turned into observed in 1867 by a gold prospector, Karl Mauch who found the Bakalanga mining gold along the Tati River, and publicised the Tati Goldfields beginning the primary South Africa goldrush.