Parys
Parys is a city in Free State. It is a popular destination for visitors because of its location on the Vaal River and its proximity to Johannesburg. A lot of the tourists are weekend visitors from Johannesburg and Pretoria.
Parys
- Type: Town with 8,070 residents
- Description: town in Free State, South Africa
- Category: locality
- Location: Ngwathe Local Municipality, Fezile Dabi District Municipality, Free State, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-26.9044° or 26° 54′ 16″ south
Longitude
27.4561° or 27° 27′ 22″ east
Population
8,070
Elevation
1,398 metres (4,587 feet)
Inception
1882
United Nations Location Code
ZA ZEE
Open location code
5G593FW4+7C
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Parys” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Parys, Vrystaat”
- Afrikaans: “Parys”
- Asturian: “Parys”
- Bulgarian: “Парейс”
- Cebuano: “Parys”
- Chinese: “帕里斯”
- Danish: “Parys”
- Dutch: “Parys”
- Esperanto: “Parys”
- Estonian: “Parys”
- French: “Parys”
- German: “Parys”
- Italian: “Parys”
- Japanese: “パリス (南アフリカ共和国)”
- Malagasy: “Parys”
- Pedi: “Parys, Free State”
- Pedi: “Parys”
- Polish: “Parys”
- Romanian: “Parys”
- Russian: “Парейс”
- Russian: “Парис”
- Southern Sotho: “Parys, Free State”
- Southern Sotho: “Parys”
- Urdu: “پیریز”
- Zulu: “IParys”
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