Colesberg
Colesberg is a town of 17,000 people in South Africa's Northern Cape. It is an agricultural centre for horse breeding and merino sheep farming. It is renowned for producing high-quality racehorses and many stud farms, including one owned by renowned golfer, Gary Player, are nearby.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Hendrik van den Berg, CC BY 3.0.
- Type: Town with 12,400 residents
- Description: place in Northern Cape, South Africa
- Also known as: “Colesberg Dorp” and “Colesberg Town”
Colesberg
Latitude
-30.7211° or 30° 43′ 16″ southLongitude
25.0967° or 25° 5′ 48″ eastPopulation
12,400Elevation
1,369 metres (4,491 feet)Open location code
4GX773HW+HMOpenStreetMap ID
node 26929294OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
1013076Wikidata ID
Q2232441
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Colesberg” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Colesberg”
- Arabic: “كلوزبيرغ”
- Asturian: “Colesberg”
- Catalan: “Colesberg”
- Cebuano: “Colesberg”
- Chinese: “科尔斯伯格”
- Chinese: “科爾斯伯格”
- Dutch: “Colesberg”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كلوزبيرج”
- Estonian: “Colesberg”
- French: “Colesberg”
- Galician: “Colesberg”
- German: “Colesberg”
- Hebrew: “קולסברג”
- Italian: “Colesberg”
- Japanese: “コールズバーグ”
- Malagasy: “Colesberg”
- Pedi: “Colesberg”
- Polish: “Colesberg”
- Portuguese: “Colesberg”
- Romanian: “Colesberg”
- Spanish: “Colesberg”
- Turkish: “Colesberg”
- Urdu: “کولسبرگ”
- Zulu: “IColesberg, INyakatho Kapa”
- Zulu: “IColesberg”
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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 “Colesberg”. Photo: Hendrik van den Berg, CC BY 3.0.