Nababeep
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 5,370 residents
- Description: human settlement in South Africa
- Also known as: “Nababiep” and “Nabaiep”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Okiep.
Okiep
Village
Photo: Waitabout, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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. Okiep is situated 9 km east of Nababeep.
Nababeep
- Categories: town and locality
- Location: Nama Khoi Local Municipality, Namakwa, Northern Cape, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-29.59077° or 29° 35′ 27″ southLongitude
17.78759° or 17° 47′ 15″ eastPopulation
5,370Elevation
813 metres (2,667 feet)Open location code
5F2VCQ5Q+M2OpenStreetMap ID
node 243652300OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
3363848Wikidata ID
Q1925174
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