Mooi River
Mooi River is a small town situated at 1,389 m above sea level and 160 km from the coast in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The first European settlement in the area was at Mooi River Drift in 1852.
Mooi River
- Type: Town with 17,800 residents
- Description: town in South Africa
- Category: locality
- Location: Mpofana Local Municipality, Umgungundlovu District Municipality, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-29.20778° or 29° 12′ 28″ south
Longitude
29.99472° or 29° 59′ 41″ east
Population
17,800
Elevation
1,403 metres (4,603 feet)
Open location code
5G2FQXRV+VV
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Mooi River” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Mooirivier”
- Asturian: “Mooi River”
- Azerbaijani: “Mooi River”
- Cebuano: “Mooirivier”
- Chinese: “姆伊河”
- Dutch: “Mooirivier”
- Estonian: “Mooi River”
- French: “Mooi River”
- German: “Mooi River”
- German: “Mooirivier”
- Italian: “Mooi River”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mooi River”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mooirivier”
- Pedi: “Mooi River”
- Polish: “Mooi River (miasto)”
- Polish: “Mooi River”
- Romanian: “Mooirivier”
- Russian: “Муи-Ривер”
- Serbian: “Мој Ривер”
- Southern Sotho: “Mooi River”
- Spanish: “Mooi River”
- Swati: “Umfula iMooi (lidolobha)”
- Swati: “Umfula iMooi”
- Swedish: “Mooi River”
- Tswana: “Mooi River”
- Urdu: “موئی ریویر (قصبہ)”
- Urdu: “موئی ریویر”
- Zulu: “IMooi River”
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Highlights include St Paul’s Anglican Church and Mooi River Town Hall.
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