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Molepolole

Molepolole is a large village in south-eastern Botswana, about 50 kilometres north-west of Gaborone, and the administrative centre of Kweneng District. It became the capital of the Bakwena under Sechele I in the 1860s, and missionaries later founded the Scottish Livingstone Hospital there. With a population of over 70,000, it is one of Botswana's largest villages.

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Bakwena Chiefdom

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APA: The Epoch Institute. (2026). Molepolole. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/molepolole
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