Orania
Orania is a town on the Orange River in the Northern Cape Karoo region of Northern Cape province. It was established in 1991 as an "Afrikaner-only" settlement, although anyone is welcome to visit.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Koeksistermonument.
Orania
- Type: Town with 2,070 residents
- Description: town in Northern Cape, South Africa
- Category: locality
- Location: Thembelihle Local Municipality, Pixley ka Seme District Municipality, Northern Cape Karoo, Northern Cape, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-29.8178° or 29° 49′ 4″ southLongitude
24.4119° or 24° 24′ 43″ eastPopulation
2,070Elevation
2,156 metres (7,073 feet)Open location code
5G265CJ6+VPOpenStreetMap ID
node 262721839OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
967542Wikidata ID
Q1011020
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Orania” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Orania”
- Arabic: “أورانيا”
- Armenian: “Օրանիա”
- Asturian: “Orania”
- Belarusian: “Аранія”
- Bulgarian: “Орания”
- Catalan: “Orania”
- Cebuano: “Orania”
- Chinese: “奧瑞尼亞”
- Dutch: “Orania”
- Esperanto: “Orania”
- Estonian: “Orania”
- Finnish: “Orania”
- French: “Orania”
- German: “Orania”
- Hakka Chinese: “Orania”
- Hebrew: “אורניה”
- Indonesian: “Orania”
- Irish: “Orania”
- Italian: “Orania”
- Japanese: “オラニア”
- Kikuyu: “Orania”
- Korean: “오라니아”
- Latvian: “Orānija”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Orania”
- Low German: “Orania”
- Macedonian: “Оранија”
- Malagasy: “Orania”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Orania (by)”
- Norwegian: “Orania”
- Ossetian: “Орани”
- Ossetian: “Орания”
- Pedi: “Orania”
- Polish: “Orania (miasto)”
- Portuguese: “Orânia”
- Romanian: “Orania”
- Russian: “Орания”
- Spanish: “Orania”
- Swahili: “Orania”
- Swedish: “Orania”
- Ukrainian: “Оранія”
- Venda: “Orania”
- Welsh: “Orania”
- Xhosa: “Orania”
- Zulu: “I-Orania, INyakatho Kapa”
- Zulu: “I-Orania”
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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 “Orania”. Photo: Putt84, CC BY-SA 4.0.