Vaal River
The Vaal River is the largest tributary of the Orange River in South Africa. The river has its source near Breyten in Mpumalanga province, east of Johannesburg and about 30 kilometres north of Ermelo and only about 240 kilometres from the Indian Ocean.
- Stream
- …lies at an elevation of 975 metres (3,199 feet)
- …is also known as “Vaal”
- Description: river in South Africa
Vaal River
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Latitude
-29.07102° or 29° 4′ 16″ south
Longitude
23.63617° or 23° 38′ 10″ east
Open location code
5G25WJHP+HF
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Western Frisian—“Vaal River” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Vaal”
- Afrikaans: “Vaalriver”
- Afrikaans: “Vaalrivier”
- Arabic: “نهر فال”
- Armenian: “Վաալ”
- Asturian: “Ríu Vaal”
- Basque: “Vaal ibaia”
- Basque: “Vaal”
- Belarusian: “Вааль”
- Bulgarian: “Ваал (река в Африка)”
- Bulgarian: “Ваал”
- Catalan: “Riu Vaal”
- Catalan: “Vaal”
- Cebuano: “Vaal River”
- Chinese: “法尔河”
- Chinese: “法爾河”
- Croatian: “Vaal”
- Czech: “Vaal”
- Danish: “Vaal River”
- Danish: “Vaal”
- Dutch: “Vaal”
- Dutch: “Vaalrivier”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر ڤال”
- Estonian: “Vaali jõgi”
- Finnish: “Vaal-joki”
- Finnish: “Vaal”
- French: “Vaal”
- Georgian: “ვაალი”
- German: “Vaal”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Vaal River”
- Greek: “Βάαλ”
- Hausa: “Kogin Vaal”
- Hebrew: “ואל”
- Hebrew: “ול”
- Hebrew: “פאל”
- Hindi: “वाल नदी”
- Hungarian: “Vaal”
- Indonesian: “Sungai Vaal”
- Irish: “Abhainn Vaal”
- Italian: “Vaal”
- Japanese: “ヴァール川”
- Japanese: “バール川”
- Kazakh: “Вааль”
- Korean: “발강”
- Latin: “Vaal”
- Lithuanian: “Valis”
- Macedonian: “Вал”
- Malay: “Sungai Vaal”
- Malayalam: “വഅല് നദി”
- Malayalam: “വാൾ നദി”
- Northern Frisian: “Vaal Struum”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vaal”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Wilge”
- Norwegian: “Vaal”
- Pedi: “Vaal River”
- Persian: “رودخانه واله”
- Polish: “Vaal”
- Portuguese: “Rio Vaal”
- Portuguese: “Vaal”
- Romanian: “Vaal”
- Russian: “Вааль”
- Serbian: “Val”
- Serbian: “Вал”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Vaal”
- Slovenian: “Vaal (reka)”
- Slovenian: “Vaal”
- Somali: “Webiga Vaal”
- South Azerbaijani: “وال چایی”
- Southern Sotho: “Noka ya Lekwa”
- Spanish: “Rio Vaal”
- Spanish: “Río Vaal”
- Spanish: “Vaal”
- Swahili: “Mto Vaal”
- Swahili: “Vaal”
- Swedish: “Vaal River”
- Swedish: “Vaal”
- Swedish: “Vaalfloden”
- Thai: “แม่น้ำวาล”
- Tswana: “Noka ya Vaal”
- Turkish: “Vaal Nehri”
- Ukrainian: “Вааль”
- Venetian: “Fiume Vaal”
- Vietnamese: “Sông Vaal”
- Vietnamese: “Vaal”
- Welsh: “Afon Vaal”
- Western Frisian: “Vaalrivier”
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