The
San people (or
Saan), also known as
Bushmen or
Basarwa, are members of various
indigenous hunter-gatherer people of
Southern Africa, whose territories span
Botswana,
Namibia,
Angola,
Zambia,
Zimbabwe and
South Africa. There is a significant linguistic difference between the northern people living between the
Okavango River in Botswana and
Etosha National Park in northwestern Namibia, extending up into southern Angola; the central people of most of Namibia and Botswana, extending into Zambia and Zimbabwe; and the southern people in the central
Kalahari towards the
Molopo River, who are the last remnant of the previously extensive indigenous San of South Africa.