Vanderbijlpark
Vanderbijlpark is an industrial city with approximately 95,000 inhabitants, situated on the Vaal River in the south of Gauteng province, South Africa. The city is named after Hendrik van der Bijl, an electrical engineer and industrialist.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Kierano, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Vaal Mall.
Vaal Mall
Shopping center
The Vaal Mall is a large shopping centre in Vanderbijlpark, Gauteng, South Africa. It is the largest shopping centre in the region and serves patrons from Vanderbijlpark, Vereeniging, Sasolburg, Sebokeng, Bophelong and Parys.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sharpeville and Boipatong.
Sharpeville
Suburb
Photo: Waitabout, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sharpeville is a township situated between two large industrial cities, Vanderbijlpark and Vereeniging, in southern Gauteng, South Africa. Sharpeville is one of the oldest of six townships in the Vaal Triangle. Sharpeville is situated 4½ km northeast of Vanderbijlpark.
Boipatong
Suburb
Boipatong is a township in Gauteng, South Africa. It was established in 1955 to house black residents who worked in Vanderbijlpark and Vereeniging. Boipatong means "the place of hiding" in the Sesotho language. Boipatong is situated 4½ km north of Vanderbijlpark.
Bophelong
Suburb
Bophelong meaning 'a place of life' is a township near Vanderbijlpark, Gauteng, South Africa. It was established in 1955 to house black residents who worked in Vanderbijlpark and Vereeniging. Bophelong is situated 4 km west of Vanderbijlpark.
Vanderbijlpark
- Type: Town with 95,800 residents
- Description: town in South Africa
- Category: locality
- Location: Emfuleni Local Municipality, Sedibeng, Gauteng, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-26.7069° or 26° 42′ 25″ southLongitude
27.8363° or 27° 50′ 11″ eastPopulation
95,800Elevation
1,485 metres (4,872 feet)Open location code
5G597RVP+6GOpenStreetMap ID
node 262722353OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
944986Wikidata ID
Q989955
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Vanderbijlpark” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Vanderbijlpark”
- Arabic: “فاندربيجلبارك”
- Asturian: “Vanderbijlpark”
- Catalan: “Vanderbijlpark”
- Cebuano: “Vanderbijlpark”
- Chinese: “范德拜尔帕克”
- Chinese: “范德拜爾帕克”
- Dutch: “Vanderbijlpark”
- Egyptian Arabic: “فاندربيجلبارك”
- Esperanto: “Vanderbijlpark”
- Estonian: “Vanderbijlpark”
- French: “Vanderbijlpark”
- German: “Vanderbijlpark”
- Greek: “Βαντερμπίλπαρκ”
- Hebrew: “ואנדרבילפארק”
- Italian: “Vanderbijlpark”
- Japanese: “ヴァンデルビジルパーク”
- Lithuanian: “Vanderbeilparkas”
- Luxembourgish: “Vanderbijlpark”
- Malagasy: “Vanderbijlpark”
- Marathi: “फांडरबीलपार्क”
- Marathi: “वंडेर्बिज्ल पार्क”
- Marathi: “व्हान्डेरबीलपार्क”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vanderbijlpark”
- Norwegian: “Vanderbijlpark”
- Pedi: “Vanderbijlpark”
- Persian: “وندربیجلپرک”
- Polish: “Vanderbijlpark”
- Portuguese: “Vanderbijlpark”
- Romanian: “Vanderbijlpark”
- Russian: “Фандербейлпак”
- Russian: “Фандербейлпарк”
- Serbian: “Fanderbajpark”
- Serbian: “Vanderbijlpark”
- Serbian: “Фандербајпарк”
- Slovenian: “Vanderbijlpark”
- Southern Sotho: “Vanderbijlpark”
- Spanish: “Vanderbijlpark”
- Swahili: “Vanderbijlpark”
- Thai: “แวนเดอไบล์พาร์ก”
- Ukrainian: “Фандербейлпарк”
- Urdu: “وینڈربیجلپارک”
- Venda: “Vanderbijlpark”
- Vietnamese: “Vanderbijlpark”
- Western Panjabi: “واندربجلپارک”
- Xhosa: “Vanderbijlpark”
- Zulu: “Vanderbijlpark”
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