Big Bend
Big Bend is a town in eastern Eswatini, lying on the Great Usutu River. Its main industry is farming and it is based mostly on sugar plantations. Big Bend is also surrounded by nature/game reserves such as Mhlosinga Nature Reserve and Nisela Safaris.Photo: Entropy1963, Public domain.
- Type: Town with 6,170 residents
- Description: city in Eswatini
- Also known as: “Big Bend, Eswatini”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ubombo Ranches Airfield.
Ubombo Ranches Airfield
Aerodrome
Ubombo Ranches Airfield is an airport serving the sugar refinery town of Big Bend in Lubombo Region, Eswatini. The runway is just west of the refinery. The Ubombo non-directional beacon is on the field.
Big Bend
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Lubombo Region, Eswatini, Southern Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-26.79112° or 26° 47′ 28″ southLongitude
31.93836° or 31° 56′ 18″ eastPopulation
6,170Open location code
5G5H6W5Q+H8OpenStreetMap ID
node 2277349166OpenStreetMap feature
place=townWikidata ID
Q858539
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Big Bend” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Big Bend, Eswatini”
- Afrikaans: “Big Bend, Swaziland”
- Chinese: “大本德”
- Croatian: “Big Bend (Svazi)”
- Croatian: “Big Bend”
- Dutch: “Big Bend”
- French: “Big Bend”
- German: “Big Bend”
- Hebrew: “ביג בנד”
- Japanese: “ビッグ・ベンド”
- Lithuanian: “Big Bendas”
- Northern Frisian: “Big Bend”
- Polish: “Big Bend”
- Portuguese: “Big Bend”
- Romanian: “Big Bend, Eswatini”
- Romanian: “Big bend, swaziland”
- Romanian: “Big Bend, Swaziland”
- Russian: “Биг-Бенд (Свазиленд)”
- Russian: “Биг-Бенд”
- Serbian: “Биг Бенд”
- Swahili: “Big Bend”
- Swati: “Big Bend, eSwatini”
- Urdu: “بگ بینڈ، ایسواتینی”
- Vietnamese: “Big Bend, Eswatini”
- Zulu: “IBig Bend, eSwazini”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Ubombo Sugar Mill power station and Van Eck Dam.
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