Paarl
Paarl is the third-oldest town in South Africa and is approximately 60 km to the north-west of Cape Town. It is famous for having one of the world's largest rock outcrops.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Andresdewet, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Tim Parkinson, CC BY 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Huguenot railway station and La Rochelle Girls‘ High School.
Huguenot railway station
Railway station
Huguenot railway station is the main passenger railway station in the town of Paarl, Western Cape, South Africa. It is served by Metrorail commuter trains on the Northern Line.
La Rochelle Girls‘ High School
School
La Rochelle Girls' High School, in Paarl is the oldest girls' school in South Africa.
Paarl Gimnasium
School
Paarl Gimnasium is a public Afrikaans medium co-educational high school situated in the city of Paarl in the Western Cape province of South Africa.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Denneburg.
Denneburg
Suburb
Paarl is a town with 294,457 inhabitants in the Western Cape province of South Africa. It is the largest town in the Cape Winelands. Due to the growth of the Mbekweni township, it is now a de facto urban unit with Wellington.
Paarl
- Type: City with 112,000 residents
- Description: town in the Western Cape, South Africa
- Categories: town, big city, and locality
- Location: Drakenstein Local Municipality, Cape Winelands District Municipality, Cape Winelands, Western Cape, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-33.731° or 33° 43′ 52″ southLongitude
18.9642° or 18° 57′ 51″ eastPopulation
112,000Elevation
107 metres (351 feet)Open location code
4FRW7X97+HMOpenStreetMap ID
node 30670037OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
3363094Wikidata ID
Q1018144
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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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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 “Paarl”. Photo: Tim Parkinson, CC BY 2.0.