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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Ivan Fourie, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: Stream
- Description: river in South Africa
- Also known as: “Vaal”
Vaal River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Northern Cape, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Satellite Map
Discover Vaal River from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Welsh—“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”
- Belarusian: “Рака 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”
- Greek: “Βάαλ”
- 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”
- 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”
- Turkish: “Vaal Nehri”
- Ukrainian: “Вааль”
- Venetian: “Fiume Vaal”
- Vietnamese: “Sông Vaal”
- Vietnamese: “Vaal”
- Welsh: “Afon Vaal”
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