Alexander Bay
Alexander Bay is a town of 1,700 people in the Northern Cape province of South Africa, close to the border with Namibia and the Orange River mouth. It is near the southern end of the Namib desert, and is officially also the driest town in South Africa with an average annual rainfall of less than 51 millimetres.- Type: Village with 1,740 residents
- Description: town in South Africa
- Also known as: “Alexander Bay, South Africa” and “アレクサンダー・ベイ”
Alexander Bay
- Categories: town, border city, and locality
- Location: Richtersveld Local Municipality, Namakwa, Northern Cape, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-28.5948° or 28° 35′ 41″ south
Longitude
16.4826° or 16° 28′ 58″ east
Population
1,740
Elevation
14 metres (46 feet)
IATA airport code
ALJ
United Nations Location Code
ZA ALJ
Open location code
5F3RCF4M+33
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Alexander Bay” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Alexanderbaai”
- Asturian: “Alexander Bay”
- Cebuano: “Alexander Bay”
- Chinese: “亞歷山大灣”
- Dutch: “Alexanderbaai”
- Estonian: “Alexander Bay”
- French: “Alexander Bay”
- German: “Alexander Bay”
- Hausa: “Alexander Bay, Afirka ta Kudu”
- Italian: “Alexander Bay”
- Japanese: “アレキサンダー・ベイ”
- Malayalam: “അലക്സാണ്ടർ ബേ, വടക്കൻ കേപ്”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Alexander Bay”
- Norwegian: “Alexander Bay”
- Pedi: “Alexander Bay”
- Persian: “الکساندر بای”
- Portuguese: “Alexander Bay”
- Romanian: “Alexanderbaai”
- Russian: “Александер-Бей”
- Somali: “Alexander Bay, Koonfur Afrika”
- Spanish: “Alexander Bay”
- Urdu: “الیگزینڈر بے، جنوبی افریقہ”
- Zulu: “I-Alexander Bay, INyakatho Kapa”
- Zulu: “I-Alexander Bay”
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