Newcastle

Newcastle is the third largest city in with a population of about 508,000. Newcastle is also known as the "New City". Set at the foothills of the northern KwaZulu-Natal Drakensberg Mountains, Newcastle is located in the northwest corner of the province along the Ncandu River and is one of the country's main industrial centres.
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  • Type: City with 363,000 residents
  • Description: city in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
  • Also known as: “Newcastle, KwaZulu-Natal”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Fort Amiel Museum and Ferrum High School.

Museum
is in Newcastle, , . Fort Amiel was constructed in 1876 by Major Charles Frederick Amiel and soldiers of the 80th Staffordshire Volunteers.

School
is a coeducational secondary school in Newcastle, KwaZulu-Natal, .

Newcastle

Latitude
-27.7545° or 27° 45′ 16″ south
Longitude
29.9326° or 29° 55′ 57″ east
Population
363,000
Elevation
1,195 metres (3,921 feet)
IATA airport code
NCS
United Nations Location Code
ZA NCS
Open location code
5G4F6WWM+62
Open­Street­Map ID
node 30670039
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
971421
Wiki­data ID
Q1027294
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Newcastle” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Newcastle, KwaZulu-Natal”
  • Afrikaans: “Newcastle”
  • Arabic: “نيوكاسل”
  • Asturian: “Newcastle”
  • Bengali: “নিউক্যাসল”
  • Catalan: “Newcastle”
  • Cebuano: “Newcastle”
  • Chinese: “新堡”
  • Chinese: “紐卡素”
  • Chinese: “纽卡斯尔”
  • Danish: “Newcastle”
  • Dutch: “Newcastle”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نيوكاسل”
  • Esperanto: “Newcastle”
  • Esperanto: “Novkastelo”
  • Estonian: “Newcastle (LAV)”
  • Estonian: “Newcastle”
  • Finnish: “Newcastle”
  • French: “Newcastle”
  • German: “Newcastle”
  • Greek: “Νιούκαστλ”
  • Gujarati: “ન્યૂકેસલ”
  • Hindi: “न्यूकैसल”
  • Indonesian: “Newcastle, KwaZulu-Natal”
  • Indonesian: “Newcastle”
  • Italian: “Newcastle”
  • Japanese: “ニューカッスル (南アフリカ)”
  • Japanese: “ニューカッスル”
  • Kannada: “ನ್ಯೂಕ್ಯಾಸೆಲ್”
  • Korean: “뉴캐슬”
  • Latvian: “Ņūkāsla”
  • Lithuanian: “Niukastlas”
  • Malay: “Newcastle”
  • Marathi: “न्यूकॅसल”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Newcastle”
  • Norwegian: “Newcastle”
  • Pedi: “Newcastle, KwaZulu Natala”
  • Pedi: “Newcastle”
  • Polish: “Newcastle”
  • Portuguese: “Newcastle”
  • Romanian: “Newcastle, Africa de Sud”
  • Romanian: “Newcastle”
  • Russian: “Ньюкасл”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Newcastle, Južna Afrika”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Newcastle, Južnoafrička Republika”
  • Shona: “Newcastle, KwaZulu-Natal”
  • Shona: “Newcastle”
  • Sinhala: “නිව්කාස්ල්”
  • Slovenian: “Newcastle”
  • Spanish: “Newcastle”
  • Swahili: “Newcastle”
  • Swedish: “Newcastle”
  • Tamil: “நியூகேஸில்”
  • Telugu: “న్యూకాజిల్”
  • Thai: “นิวคาสเซิล”
  • Tswana: “Newcastle, KwaZulu-Natal”
  • Tswana: “Newcastle”
  • Turkish: “Newcastle”
  • Ukrainian: “Ньюкасл”
  • Urdu: “نیو کیسل، کوازولو نٹال”
  • Urdu: “نیوکیسل”
  • Vietnamese: “Newcastle”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Newcastle, KwaZulu-Natal”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Newcastle”
  • Zeeuws: “Newcastle (Zuud-Afrika)”
  • Zeeuws: “Newcastle”
  • Zulu: “INewcastle”

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