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Morupule

populated place in Botswana

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ15045624 ↗
Source-derived summary

Morupule is a small town in the Central District of Botswana. It had a population of 28 in the 2022 Census.

The coal-fired Morupule Thermal Power Station is located nearby. It generated about 30% of the country's electric power in 2006. Coal for the power station is supplied by the nearby Morupule Colliery.

It is outside of Palapye town next to the main road from Gaborone. It is serviced by a station on the national railway network. It also has an airstrip.

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“Morupule” enters the record as populated place in Botswana. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Morupule, populated and place can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2022, 2006—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Morupule, populated and place.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q15045624. Authority coordinates are -22.513, 27.024. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2022 and 2006.

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This entry incorporates text from “Morupule” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.