Glencoe
Glencoe is situated in the Umzinyathi District, District of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The main economic activity in the area is coal mining along with sheep and cattle ranching.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 17,500 residents
- Description: town in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
- Also known as: “Glencoe, KwaZulu-Natal”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dundee.
Dundee
Photo: Werner Leach, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Dundee is a coal-mining town of 35,000 people in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It was the site of the Battle of Blood River in 1838 between 464 Voortrekkers, and an estimated 10,000 to 15,000 Zulu.
Glencoe
Latitude
-28.17389° or 28° 10′ 26″ southLongitude
30.16472° or 30° 9′ 53″ eastPopulation
17,500Elevation
1,293 metres (4,242 feet)Open location code
5G3GR5G7+CVOpenStreetMap ID
node 94845554OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
1001736Wikidata ID
Q285782
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Glencoe” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Glencoe, KwaZulu-Natal”
- Afrikaans: “Glencoe”
- Asturian: “Glencoe”
- Cebuano: “Glencoe”
- Dutch: “Glencoe”
- French: “Glencoe (Afrique du Sud)”
- French: “Glencoe”
- German: “Glencoe”
- Pedi: “Glencoe”
- Polish: “Glencoe”
- Romanian: “Glencoe”
- Spanish: “Glencoe”
- Zulu: “IGlencoe”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Site of Glencoe Loco Shed and Glencoe.
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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 “Glencoe”. Photo: P.Lindgren, CC BY-SA 3.0.