Ladysmith

Ladysmith is a city in the province of at the foot of the Drakensberg mountains.
  • City with about 64,900 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of around 1,010 metres (3,310 feet)
  • …has the IATA airport code LAY
  • Description: Town in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
  • Also known as
    “Ladysmith, KwaZulu-Natal”
    “uMnambithi”
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Latitude
-28.558° or 28° 33′ 29″ south
Longitude
29.7817° or 29° 46′ 54″ east
UN/LOCODE
ZA LAY
Open location code
5G3FCQRJ+QM
Open­Street­Map ID
Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
Wiki­data ID

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Ladysmith” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Ladysmith”
  • Arabic: “ليديسميث”
  • Asturian: “Ladysmith”
  • Bengali: “লেডি স্মিত”
  • Bulgarian: “Лейдисмит”
  • Cebuano: “Ladysmith (kapital sa munisipyo sa KwaZulu-Natal)”
  • Cebuano: “Ladysmith”
  • Chinese: “雷地史密斯”
  • Czech: “Ladysmith”
  • Danish: “Ladysmith”
  • Dutch: “Ladysmith”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ليديسميث”
  • Estonian: “Ladysmith”
  • Finnish: “Ladysmith”
  • French: “Ladysmith”
  • German: “Ladysmith”
  • German: “UMnambithi”
  • Greek: “Λέιντισμιθ”
  • Gujarati: “લેડીસ્મિથ”
  • Hebrew: “ליידיסמית‘”
  • Hindi: “लेडीस्मिथ”
  • Indonesian: “Ladysmith”
  • Italian: “Ladysmith”
  • Japanese: “レディスミス”
  • Kannada: “ಲೇಡಿಸ್ಮಿಥ್”
  • Korean: “레이디스미스”
  • Latin: “Ladysmith”
  • Latin: “Urbs Dominae Smith”
  • Latvian: “Leidismita”
  • Lithuanian: “Ledismitas”
  • Malay: “Ladysmith”
  • Maori: “Reirimete”
  • Marathi: “लेडीस्मिथ”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ladysmith”
  • Norwegian: “Ladysmith”
  • Pedi: “Ladysmith”
  • Polish: “Ladysmith”
  • Portuguese: “Ladysmith”
  • Romanian: “Ladysmith”
  • Russian: “Ладийсмис”
  • Russian: “Ледисмит”
  • Shona: “Ladysmith, KwaZulu-Natal”
  • Shona: “Ladysmith”
  • Sinhala: “ලේඩිස්මිත්”
  • Spanish: “Ladysmith”
  • Swahili: “Ladysmith”
  • Swedish: “Ladysmith, KwaZulu-Natal”
  • Swedish: “Ladysmith”
  • Tamil: “லேடிஸ்மித்”
  • Telugu: “లేడీస్మిత్”
  • Thai: “เลดีสมิธ”
  • Turkish: “Ladysmith, KwaZulu-Natal”
  • Turkish: “Ladysmith”
  • Ukrainian: “Ледісміт”
  • Urdu: “لادیسمیتھ”
  • Urdu: “لیڈی سمتھ، کوازولو-نٹال”
  • Vietnamese: “Ladysmith”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Ladysmith, KwaZulu-Natal”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Ladysmith”
  • Zulu: “ILadysmith”

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