Okiep
Okiep is a small town in the Northern Cape province of South Africa, and was in the 1870s ranked as having the richest copper mine in the world. The town is on the site of a spring that was known in the Khoekhoe language of the Nama people as U-gieb and was originally spelled as O'okiep.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Waitabout, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Village
- Description: town in South Africa
- Also known as: “O’Kiep” and “O’Okiep”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Springbok and Nababeep.
Springbok
Photo: LBM1948, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Springbok is a town in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa. With a population of 13,000, it is the biggest settlement in the region, and the business centre of the Namaqualand.
Nababeep
Village
Photo: Peter Bagshawe, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Nababeep is a town in Namakwa District Municipality in the Northern Cape province of South Africa. Nababeep is an old copper-mining town in Namaqualand, 19 km north-west of Springbok. Nababeep is situated 9 km west of Okiep.
Concordia
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Concordia is a town in Namakwa District Municipality in the Northern Cape province of South Africa. The distance from Concordia to Cape Town is approximately 600 km. Concordia is situated 9 km northeast of Okiep.
Okiep
- Categories: town and locality
- Location: Nama Khoi Local Municipality, Namakwa, Northern Cape, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-29.59687° or 29° 35′ 49″ southLongitude
17.87963° or 17° 52′ 47″ eastElevation
933 metres (3,061 feet)Open location code
5F2VCV3H+7VOpenStreetMap ID
node 262714287OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
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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 “Okiep”. Photo: Waitabout, CC BY-SA 3.0.