Phalaborwa

Phalaborwa is a town in the Mopani district of the Limpopo province in . Phalaborwa has about 13,100 residents.
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  • Type: Town with 13,100 residents
  • Description: town in South Africa
  • Also known as: Ba-Phalaborwa” and “Palabora

Places of Interest

Highlights include Hendrik Van Eck Airport.

Aerodrome
Phalaborwa Airport is an serving Phalaborwa, a town in the province of . It was previously known as , named after the South African engineer and industrialist who died in 1970.

Phalaborwa

Latitude
-23.9485° or 23° 56′ 55″ south
Longitude
31.1376° or 31° 8′ 15″ east
Population
13,100
Elevation
435 metres (1,427 feet)
IATA airport code
PHW
United Nations Location Code
ZA PHW
Open location code
5G8H342Q+H2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 124482342
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
965528
Wiki­data ID
Q1896233
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Phalaborwa” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: Phalaborwa
  • Asturian: Phalaborwa
  • Cebuano: Phalaborwa
  • Chinese: 帕拉博魯瓦
  • Chinese: 帕拉博鲁瓦
  • Dutch: Phalaborwa
  • Esperanto: Phalaborwa
  • Estonian: Phalaborwa
  • Finnish: Phalaborwa
  • French: Mine de Phalaborwa
  • French: Phalaborwa
  • German: Phalaborwa
  • Hebrew: פלבורווה
  • Indonesian: Phalaborwa
  • Italian: Phalaborwa
  • Japanese: ファラボウワ
  • Japanese: ファラボルワ
  • Malagasy: Phalaborwa
  • Pedi: Phalaborwa
  • Polish: Phalaborwa
  • Portuguese: Phalaborwa
  • Romanian: Phalaborwa
  • Russian: Палаборва
  • Russian: Пхалаборва
  • Southern Sotho: Phalaborwa
  • Tsonga: Phalaborwa
  • Tswana: Phalaborwa
  • Urdu: پھالابوروا
  • Venda: Phalaborwa
  • Zulu: IPhalaborwa

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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 “Phalaborwa”. Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.