Beaufort West

Beaufort West is a town in the province in . Beaufort West sits next door to . It is the north-easternmost town in Great Karoo.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Beaufort West station.

Railway station
Photo: Andre Kritzinger, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a railway station.

Beaufort West

Latitude
-32.3536° or 32° 21′ 13″ south
Longitude
22.5806° or 22° 34′ 50″ east
Population
44,700
Elevation
849 metres (2,785 feet)
Named after
Henry Somerset, 5th Duke of Beaufort
United Nations Location Code
ZA BEW
Open location code
4GV4JHWJ+H6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26925608
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
1020641
Wiki­data ID
Q813395
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Satellite Map

Discover Beaufort West from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Beaufort West” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Beaufort Wes”
  • Afrikaans: “Beaufort West”
  • Afrikaans: “Beaufort-Wes”
  • Arabic: “بيوفورت ويست”
  • Armenian: “Բոֆոտր Ուեստ”
  • Asturian: “Beaufort West”
  • Catalan: “Beaufort West”
  • Cebuano: “Beaufort West (kapital sa distrito)”
  • Cebuano: “Beaufort West”
  • Chinese: “西博福特”
  • Chinese: “西博褔特”
  • Danish: “Beaufort West”
  • Dutch: “Beaufort-Wes”
  • Dutch: “Beaufort-West”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بيوفورت ويست”
  • Esperanto: “Beaufort West”
  • Estonian: “Beaufort West”
  • French: “Beaufort West”
  • German: “Beaufort West”
  • German: “Beaufort-Wes”
  • Hebrew: “ביופורט וסט”
  • Irish: “Beaufort West”
  • Italian: “Beaufort West”
  • Japanese: “ビューフォートウエスト”
  • Malagasy: “Beaufort West”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Beaufort West”
  • Norwegian: “Beaufort West”
  • Pedi: “Beaufort West”
  • Polish: “Beaufort West”
  • Portuguese: “Beaufort West”
  • Romanian: “Beaufort West”
  • Romanian: “Beaufort-wes”
  • Romanian: “Beaufort-Wes”
  • Russian: “Бофорт-Уэст”
  • Slovenian: “Beaufort West, Južna Afrika”
  • Southern Sotho: “Beaufort West”
  • Spanish: “Beaufort West”
  • Swahili: “Beaufort West”
  • Swedish: “Beaufort West”
  • Tagalog: “Beaufort West”
  • Ukrainian: “Бофорт-Вест”
  • Urdu: “بیوفورٹ غربی”
  • Welsh: “Beaufort West”
  • Western Frisian: “Beaufort-Wes”
  • Zulu: “IBeaufort West, INtshonalanga Kapa”

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