Marapong

Demographic figures from Statistics Botswana. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Marapong is a town in Central District of Botswana. It is located west of Francistown, to the south of the road connecting Francistown to Nata. The population was 2,666 in the 2011 census.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in Central

• Makuta
  15.2 mi away
• Borotsi
  16.2 mi away
• Nswazwi
  18.9 mi away
• Chadibe
  21.3 mi away
• Lepashe
  25.6 mi away
• Damochujenaa
  74 mi away
• Maposa
  75.7 mi away
• Sepako
  80.1 mi away
• Mmadikolobe
  84.2 mi away
• Marukuru
  88.1 mi away
• Tshokwe
  89.4 mi away · pop. 1,586
• Topisi
  89.7 mi away

Browse all places in Central →

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Recently spotted species

Horned Melon

Cucumis metuliferus

Seen 2026-06-11

Red-backed Shrike

Lanius collurio

Seen 2025-11-17

White-browed Sparrow-Weaver

Plocepasser mahali

Seen 2025-11-17

Mainland Namaqua Dove

Oena capensis capensis

Seen 2025-11-17

Southern Grey-headed Sparrow

Passer diffusus

Seen 2025-11-17

Giant Longhorn

Tithoes confinis

Seen 2025-11-16

African Twig Mantis

Popa spurca

Seen 2025-11-16

African Star-Chestnut

Sterculia africana

Seen 2025-10-23

aroma

Dichrostachys cinerea

Seen 2025-10-12

Research-grade observations from iNaturalist (within ~15 mi).