Barkly West
Barkly West lies just off the R31, north-west of Kimberley, in the Northern Cape. Formerly known as Klipdrift, the first digging activity took place here in 1869 following the discovery of diamonds on the De Kalk farm.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Janek Szymanowski, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Barkly West
- Type: Town with 11,600 residents
- Description: town in the Northern Cape, South Africa
- Category: locality
- Location: Dikgatlong Local Municipality, Frances Baard District Municipality, Diamond Fields, Northern Cape, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-28.5356° or 28° 32′ 8″ southLongitude
24.5199° or 24° 31′ 12″ eastPopulation
11,600Elevation
1,104 metres (3,622 feet)Open location code
5G36FG79+QWOpenStreetMap ID
node 262719133OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
1021040Wikidata ID
Q808304
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Barkly West” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Barkley-Wes”
- Afrikaans: “Barkly West”
- Afrikaans: “Barkly-Wes”
- Afrikaans: “Barkly-West”
- Asturian: “Barkly West”
- Cebuano: “Barkly West”
- Chinese: “西巴克利”
- Danish: “Barkly West”
- Dutch: “Barkly West”
- Dutch: “Barkly-Wes”
- Dutch: “Barkly-West”
- Estonian: “Barkly West”
- French: “Barkly West”
- German: “Barkly West”
- Italian: “Barkly West”
- Malagasy: “Barkly West”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Barkly West”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Klip Drift”
- Norwegian: “Barkly West”
- Pedi: “Barkly West”
- Polish: “Barkly West”
- Polish: “Klip Drift”
- Romanian: “Barkly west”
- Romanian: “Barkly West”
- Romanian: “Barkly-Wes”
- Romanian: “Barkly-West”
- Urdu: “بارکلی ویسٹ”
- Zulu: “IBarkly West”
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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 “Barkly West”. Photo: Janek Szymanowski, CC BY-SA 3.0.