Otse Hill is a peak often cited as the highest point of

Botswana Botswana (, ), officially the Republic of Botswana ( tn, Lefatshe la Botswana, label=Setswana, ), is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Botswana is topographically flat, with approximately 70 percent of its territory being the Kalahar ...

, with a reported altitude of 1,491 metres (4,891 feet). It is located in the village of

Otse Otse is a village in the South-East District of Botswana. It is located 60 km south of Gaborone, along the Gaborone– Lobatse road and close to the border with South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Afr ...

, South-East District. Its highest cell on

SRTM The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) is an international research effort that obtained digital elevation models on a near-global scale from 56°S to 60°N, to generate the most complete high-resolution digital topographic database of Ea ...

data is 1,486 meters - 4875 feet. The 1999 Department of Surveys and Mapping (Gaborone) 1:50,000 scale topographic map shows a "trigonometrical station" on the Otse Peak summit with an elevation of 1,491 meters - 4892 feet. The

Monalanong Hill Monalanong Hill is a mountain often considered the highest point of Botswana, with an altitude derived from SRTM data of 1,494 metres (4,900 feet). The Otse Hill (at a reported altitude of 1,491 metres - 4,891 feet) or the Tsodilo Hills (at an ...

(at a SRTM-derived altitude of 1,494 metres - 4,902 feet) or the

Tsodilo Hills The Tsodilo Hills are a UNESCO World Heritage Site (WHS), consisting of rock art, rock shelters, depressions, and caves in southern Africa. It gained its WHS listing in 2001 because of its unique religious and spiritual significance to local peo ...

(at an altitude of about 1400 metres - 4,593 feet) are also often given as the highest point in Botswana.Territorial Highest points
, World Heritage Site, accessed on April 10, 2009.

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