North West Province
Dr Kenneth Kaunda District Municipality
City of Matlosana

Orkney

Orkney is a gold mining town situated in the district of the province, . It lies on the banks of the Vaal River approximately 180 km from Johannesburg near the N12.
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  • Type: Town with 110,000 residents
  • Description: town in North West province, South Africa
  • Also known as: “Eastleigh”, “Orkney, North West”, and “Orkney, South Africa”

Orkney

Latitude
-26.9753° or 26° 58′ 31″ south
Longitude
26.6719° or 26° 40′ 19″ east
Population
110,000
Elevation
1,312 metres (4,304 feet)
United Nations Location Code
ZA ORK
Open location code
5G582MFC+VQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 60059926
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
967476
Wiki­data ID
Q1788096
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Orkney” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Orkney, Noordwes”
  • Afrikaans: “Orkney”
  • Arabic: “أوروكني”
  • Asturian: “Orkney”
  • Chinese: “奧克尼 (西北省)”
  • Chinese: “奧克尼”
  • Dutch: “Orkney”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اوروكنى”
  • Esperanto: “Orkney”
  • French: “Orkney”
  • German: “Orkney”
  • Italian: “Orkney”
  • Malagasy: “Orkney”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Orkney”
  • Norwegian: “Orkney”
  • Pedi: “Orkney”
  • Polish: “Orkney”
  • Russian: “Оркнейские”
  • Spanish: “Orkney”
  • Spanish: “Vaal Reef”
  • Swahili: “Orkney (Afrika Kusini)”
  • Swahili: “Orkney”
  • Tswana: “Orkney”
  • Urdu: “اورکنی، جنوبی افریقہ”
  • Zulu: “I-Orkney, INyakatho-Ntshonalanga”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Orkney”. Photo: Andre Kritzinger, CC BY-SA 3.0.