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.
- Village
- …lies at an elevation of around 930 metres (3,060 feet)
- …is also known as “O’Okiep”
- Description: town in South Africa
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Springbok and Nababeep.
Nababeep
Nababeep is a town in Namakwa District Municipality in the Northern Cape province of South Africa.
9 km west of Okiep
Concordia
Concordia is a town in Namakwa District Municipality in the Northern Cape province of South Africa.
9 km northeast of Okiep
Okiep
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Latitude
-29.59687° or 29° 35′ 49″ south
Longitude
17.87963° or 17° 52′ 47″ east
Open location code
5F2VCV3H+7V
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OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Okiep” goes by many names.
OkiepAfrikaans
OkiepAsturian
奥基普Chinese
歐吉普Chinese
OkiepDutch
OkiepEstonian
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