Orapa
Orapa is a town located in the Central District of Botswana. It is the site of the Orapa diamond mine, the largest diamond-producing mine in the world, and is considered to be the diamond capital of the country.Places of Interest
Highlights: Orapa diamond mine.
Orapa diamond mine
Quarry
The Orapa diamond mine is the world's largest diamond mine by area. Orapa diamond mine is situated 3 km north of Orapa.
Orapa
- Type: Town with 9,500 residents
- Description: City in Northern Botswana
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Central District, Botswana, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-21.3362° or 21° 20′ 10″ south
Longitude
25.36496° or 25° 21′ 54″ east
Population
9,500
Elevation
965 metres (3,166 feet)
IATA airport code
ORP
UN/LOCODE
BW ORP
Open location code
5GC7M977+GX
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Orapa” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Orapa”
- Arabic: “اورابا”
- Asturian: “Orapa”
- Bulgarian: “Орапа”
- Cebuano: “Orapa”
- Chinese: “奥拉帕”
- Chinese: “奧拉帕”
- Dutch: “Orapa”
- Finnish: “Orapa”
- French: “Orapa”
- Fulah: “Orapa”
- German: “Orapa”
- Ido: “Orapa”
- Italian: “Orapa”
- Japanese: “オラパ (ボツワナ)”
- Japanese: “オラパ”
- Latin: “Orapa”
- Persian: “وراپا، بوتسوانا”
- Persian: “وراپا”
- Polish: “Orapa”
- Portuguese: “Orapa”
- Romanian: “Orapa”
- Russian: “Орапа”
- Spanish: “Orapa”
- Swedish: “Orapa”
- Tswana: “Orapa”
- Tumbuka: “Orapa Town”
- Ukrainian: “Орапа”
- Zulu: “Orapa”
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Places to explore: Tawana Ward and Nkosho Ward.
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Highlights: Itekeng Swimming Pool and Orapa Hospital.
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