Kuruman
Kuruman is a city of 13,000 people in the Kalahari district of South Africa. It is known for its scenic beauty and the Eye of Kuruman, a geological feature that brings water from deep underground.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: South African Tourism, CC BY 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Eye of Kuruman and Johan Pienaar Airport.
Eye of Kuruman
Lake
Photo: Leviel, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Eye of Kuruman is a spring in the town of Kuruman in the province of Northern Cape, South Africa. Currently, it is known as the largest natural spring in the Southern Hemisphere; although the Te Waikoropupū Springs in Golden Bay, New Zealand has been reliably measured at an average flow some 60 times greater.
Johan Pienaar Airport
Aerodrome
Johan Pienaar Airport is an airport serving Kuruman, a town in Northern Cape province, South Africa.
Kuruman
- Type: Town with 9,090 residents
- Description: town in the Northern Cape, South Africa
- Category: locality
- Location: Ga-Segonyana Local Municipality, John Taolo Gaetsewe District Municipality, Kalahari, Northern Cape, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-27.4602° or 27° 27′ 37″ southLongitude
23.4348° or 23° 26′ 5″ eastPopulation
9,090Elevation
1,301 metres (4,268 feet)IATA airport code
KMHUnited Nations Location Code
ZA KMHOpen location code
5G45GCQM+WWOpenStreetMap ID
node 11274550076OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
986134Wikidata ID
Q1025965
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Ukrainian—“Kuruman” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Kuruman”
- Arabic: “كورومان”
- Asturian: “Kuruman”
- Cebuano: “Kuruman”
- Chinese: “库鲁曼”
- Chinese: “庫魯曼”
- Danish: “Kuruman”
- Dutch: “Kuruman”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كورومان”
- Estonian: “Kuruman”
- French: “Kuruman”
- German: “Kuruman”
- Italian: “Kuruman”
- Japanese: “クルマン (南アフリカ)”
- Japanese: “クルマン”
- Malagasy: “Kuruman”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kuruman”
- Norwegian: “Kuruman”
- Pedi: “Kuruman”
- Polish: “Kuruman”
- Portuguese: “Kuruman”
- Romanian: “Kuruman”
- Russian: “Куруман”
- Slovenian: “Kuruman”
- Spanish: “Kuruman”
- Tagalog: “Kuruman”
- Thai: “คุรุมาน”
- Ukrainian: “Куруман”
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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 “Kuruman”. Photo: South African Tourism, CC BY 2.0.