Kranskop

Kranskop is a small town that is situated on the edge of the Thukela River valley in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It was founded in 1894 as village called Hopetown but following confusion with another town of the same name in the Great Karoo, Northern Cape, the name was changed.

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Latitude

-28.96694° or 28° 58′ 1″ south

Longitude

30.86167° or 30° 51′ 42″ east

Population

1,810

Elevation

1,124 metres (3,688 feet)

Open location code

5G3G2VM6+6M

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place=village

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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 “Kranskop”. Photo: P.Lindgren, CC BY-SA 3.0.