Limpopo
Waterberg
Lephalale Local Municipality

Lephalale

Lephalale, formerly known as Ellisras, is a coal mining town in the province of immediately east of the Waterberg Coalfield. The town was established as Ellisras in 1960 and named after Patrick Ellis and Piet Erasmus who settled on a farm there in the 1930s.
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  • Type: Town with 17,600 residents
  • Description: town in Limpopo, South Africa
  • Also known as: “Ellisras”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Onverwacht.

Suburb
is a suburb of Lephalale in in the province of . is situated 5 km west of Lephalale.

Lephalale

Latitude
-23.68333° or 23° 41′ south
Longitude
27.73333° or 27° 44′ east
Population
17,600
Elevation
824 metres (2,703 feet)
IATA airport code
ELL
United Nations Location Codes
ZA ELL and ZA HLE
Open location code
5G898P8M+M8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 262708630
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
7730334
Wiki­data ID
Q1820072
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Lephalale” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Ellisras”
  • Afrikaans: “Lephalale”
  • Asturian: “Lephalale”
  • Cebuano: “Lephalale (kapital sa munisipyo)”
  • Cebuano: “Lephalale”
  • Chinese: “莱帕拉莱”
  • Chinese: “萊帕拉萊”
  • Dutch: “Lephalale”
  • Estonian: “Lephalale”
  • French: “Ellisras”
  • French: “Lephalale”
  • German: “Ellisras”
  • German: “Lephalale”
  • Italian: “Lephalale”
  • Japanese: “レファラレ”
  • Pedi: “Lephalale”
  • Polish: “Ellisras”
  • Polish: “Lephalale”
  • Romanian: “Lephalale”
  • Russian: “Лепхалале”
  • Venda: “Lephalale”
  • Zulu: “ILephalale”

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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 “Lephalale”. Photo: Caracal Rooikat, CC BY-SA 4.0.