Tshabong Airport | |||||||||||
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| Serves | Tsabong, Botswana | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 3,179 ft / 969 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 26°02′05″S22°24′05″E / 26.03472°S 22.40139°E | ||||||||||
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Tshabong Airport( IATA : TBY, ICAO : FBTS), also known as Tsabong Airport, is an airport serving Tsabong, a town in the Kgalagadi District of Botswana.
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.
Tsabong, also spelled Tshabong, is the administrative centre of the Kgalagadi District in Botswana. It is located in the Kalahari Desert. The population was 8939 in the 2011 census.
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