Paarl

Paarl is the third-oldest town in and is approximately 60 km to the north-west of . It is famous for having one of the world's largest rock outcrops.
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  • City with about 112,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of around 130 metres (430 feet)
  • Description: town in the Western Cape, South Africa

Places of Interest

Highlights include Huguenot railway station and La Rochelle Girls‘ High School.
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is the main passenger railway…
La Rochelle Girls' High School, in Paarl is the oldest girls' school in .
is a public Afrikaans medium…

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Denneburg.
Paarl is a town with 294,457 inhabitants in the province of .

Paarl

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Latitude
-33.731° or 33° 43′ 52″ south
Longitude
18.9642° or 18° 57′ 51″ east
Open location code
4FRW7X97+HM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 30670037
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3363094
Wiki­data ID
Q1018144

Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Paarl” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Paarl”
  • Arabic: “بارل”
  • Asturian: “Paarl”
  • Basque: “Paarl”
  • Bengali: “পার্ল”
  • Bulgarian: “Парл”
  • Catalan: “Paarl”
  • Cebuano: “Paarl”
  • Central Kurdish: “كوردي”
  • Chinese: “帕阿尔”
  • Chinese: “帕阿爾”
  • Czech: “Paarl”
  • Danish: “Paarl”
  • Dutch: “Paarl”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بارل”
  • Esperanto: “Paarl”
  • Estonian: “Paarl”
  • French: “Paarl”
  • German: “Paarl”
  • Greek: “Παρλ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Paarl”
  • Hebrew: “פארל”
  • Hindi: “पार्ल”
  • Hungarian: “Paarl”
  • Indonesian: “Paarl”
  • Irish: “Paarl”
  • Italian: “Paarl”
  • Japanese: “パール”
  • Latin: “Margaropolis”
  • Latin: “Paarl”
  • Malagasy: “Paarl”
  • Marathi: “पार्ल”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Paarl”
  • Norwegian: “Paarl”
  • Pedi: “Paarl”
  • Polish: “Paarl”
  • Romanian: “Paarl”
  • Russian: “Паарл”
  • Russian: “Парл”
  • Spanish: “Paarl”
  • Swahili: “Paarl”
  • Swedish: “Paarl”
  • Urdu: “پارل”
  • Venetian: “Paarl”
  • Welsh: “Paarl”
  • Western Panjabi: “پارل”
  • Xhosa: “Paarl”
  • Zulu: “IPaarl, INtshonalanga Kapa”

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