Vanrhynsdorp
Vanrhynsdorp is a town located in the West Coast District Municipality of the Western Cape province in South Africa. Considered the oldest and most southern European-settled town in Namaqualand, Vanrhynsdorp serves as a gateway to the Succulent Karoo and Nama Karoo regions to the north and east.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 7,520 residents
- Description: town
- Also known as: “Van Rhynsdorf”
Vanrhynsdorp
- Category: locality
- Location: Matzikama Local Municipality, West Coast, Western Cape, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-31.60889° or 31° 36′ 32″ southLongitude
18.74167° or 18° 44′ 30″ eastPopulation
7,520Elevation
114 metres (374 feet)Open location code
4FWW9PRR+CMOpenStreetMap ID
node 262722400OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
3360078Wikidata ID
Q943414
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Vanrhynsdorp” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Vanrhynsdorp”
- Arabic: “فانرهينسدروب”
- Armenian: “Ֆանրեյնսդորպ”
- Asturian: “Vanrhynsdorp”
- Catalan: “Vanrhynsdorp”
- Dutch: “Vanrhynsdorp”
- Egyptian Arabic: “فانرهينسدروب”
- Estonian: “Vanrhynsdorp”
- Faroese: “Vanrhynsdorp”
- French: “Vanrhynsdorp”
- German: “Vanrhynsdorp”
- Italian: “Vanrhynsdorp”
- Pedi: “Vanrhynsdorp”
- Persian: “ونرهینسدرپ”
- Portuguese: “Vanrhynsdorp”
- Romanian: “Vanrhynsdorp”
- Russian: “Фанрейнсдорп”
- Welsh: “Vanrhynsdorp”
- Zulu: “IVanrhynsdorp”
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Notable Places Nearby
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