Calvinia
Calvinia is a regional town in the Northern Cape province of South Africa named after the French religious reformer Jean Calvin. The town falls under the Hantam Local Municipality which forms part of the Namakwa District Municipality.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Dutch Reformed Church, Calvinia.
Dutch Reformed Church, Calvinia
Church
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The Dutch Reformed Church in Calvinia is a church building of the Dutch Reformed Church in Calvinia, South Africa built in 1899 and declared a National Memorial in 1982.
Calvinia
- Type: Town with 8,150 residents
- Description: town in the Northern Cape, South Africa
- Category: locality
- Location: Hantam, Namakwa, Northern Cape, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-31.46944° or 31° 28′ 10″ southLongitude
19.77722° or 19° 46′ 38″ eastPopulation
8,150Elevation
987 metres (3,238 feet)Open location code
4FWXGQJG+6VOpenStreetMap ID
node 207728823OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
3369174Wikidata ID
Q1027757
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Venda—“Calvinia” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Calvinia”
- Asturian: “Calvinia”
- Catalan: “Calvinia”
- Cebuano: “Calvinia”
- Chinese: “卡尔维尼亚”
- Chinese: “卡爾維尼亞”
- Danish: “Calvinia”
- Dutch: “Calvinia”
- Estonian: “Calvinia”
- French: “Calvinia”
- German: “Calvinia”
- Italian: “Calvinia”
- Japanese: “カルビニア”
- Malagasy: “Calvinia”
- Pedi: “Calvinia”
- Romanian: “Calvinia”
- Russian: “Калвиния”
- Russian: “Кальвиния”
- Spanish: “Calvinia”
- Swedish: “Calvinia”
- Venda: “Calvinia”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Calvinia Museum and Calvinia Steam Locomotive.
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