Kgalagadi District

Kgalagadi
District
Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park
Location within Botswana
Coordinates: 25°00′S 22°00′E / 25.000°S 22.000°E / -25.000; 22.000
Country	Botswana
Capital	Tsabong
Area
• Total	105,200 km2 (40,600 sq mi)
Population  (2001 census)
• Total	42,049
• Density	0.40/km2 (1.0/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+2 (Central Africa Time)
HDI (2017)	0.683[1] medium · 8th

Kgalagadi is a district in southwest Botswana, lying along the country's border with Namibia and South Africa. The administrative center is Tsabong. The district of Kgalagadi covers a large part of the Kalahari Desert. It has a total area of 105,200 km² and has a population of 42,000 (2001). More than one-third of the district is covered by the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, which extends into South Africa, and which is a major tourist attraction.

As of 2011, the total population of the district was 50,492 (compared to 42,049 in 2001). The growth rate of population during the decade was 1.85. Kgalagadi's population represents 2.49 per cent of the total population of Botswana. The majority of employees (in 2011 there were 10,530 people in work) were working within the transport & communication and public administration sectors. The district is administered by a district administration and district council.^{[citation needed]}