Northern Cape
Namakwa
Richtersveld Local Municipality

Alexander Bay

Alexander Bay is a town of 1,700 people in the province of , close to the border with 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.
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  • Type: Village with 1,740 residents
  • Description: town in South Africa
  • Also known as: “Alexander Bay, South Africa”

Alexander Bay

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
node 262694682
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
3370511
Wiki­data ID
Q1856529
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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”
  • German: “Alexanderbaai”
  • Italian: “Alexander Bay”
  • Japanese: “アレキサンダー・ベイ”
  • Japanese: “アレクサンダー・ベイ”
  • Malayalam: “അലക്സാണ്ടർ ബേ, വടക്കൻ കേപ്”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Alexander Bay”
  • Norwegian: “Alexander Bay”
  • Pedi: “Alexander Bay”
  • Persian: “الکساندر بای، کیپ شمالی”
  • Persian: “الکساندر بای”
  • Portuguese: “Alexander Bay”
  • Portuguese: “Alexanderbaai”
  • Romanian: “Alexanderbaai”
  • Russian: “Александер-Бей”
  • Spanish: “Alexander Bay”
  • Zulu: “I-Alexander Bay, INyakatho Kapa”
  • Zulu: “I-Alexander Bay”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Alexander Bay”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.