De Aar
De Aar is a town in the Northern Cape province of South Africa. It has a population of around 42,000 inhabitants. It is the second-most important railway junction in the country, situated on the line between Cape Town and Kimberley.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include De Aar railway station.
De Aar railway station
Railway station
Photo: Andre Kritzinger, CC BY-SA 3.0.
De Aar railway station is a railway station serving the town of De Aar, in the Northern Cape province of South Africa. De Aar is a major junction where the Cape Town–Kimberley main line meets a line from Port Elizabeth and another from Upington and Namibia.
De Aar
- Type: Town with 32,300 residents
- Description: town in the Northern Cape, South Africa
- Category: locality
- Location: Emthanjeni Local Municipality, Pixley ka Seme District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-30.65056° or 30° 39′ 2″ southLongitude
24.0075° or 24° 0′ 27″ eastPopulation
32,300Elevation
1,247 metres (4,091 feet)United Nations Location Code
ZA DACOpen location code
4GX682X4+QXOpenStreetMap ID
node 59600497OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“De Aar” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “De Aar”
- Arabic: “دي آر”
- Armenian: “Դե Աար”
- Asturian: “De Aar”
- Belarusian: “Дэ-Ар”
- Cebuano: “De Aar (kapital sa distrito sa Habagatang Aprika)”
- Cebuano: “De Aar”
- Chinese: “德阿尔”
- Chinese: “德阿爾”
- Danish: “De Aar”
- Dutch: “De Aar”
- Egyptian Arabic: “دى آر”
- Estonian: “De Aar”
- French: “De Aar”
- German: “De Aar”
- Italian: “De Aar”
- Latin: “De Aar”
- Malagasy: “De Aar”
- Pedi: “De Aar”
- Polish: “De Aar”
- Portuguese: “De Aar”
- Romanian: “De Aar”
- Russian: “Де-Ар”
- Spanish: “De Aar”
- Zulu: “IDe Aar”
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