Phalaborwa
Phalaborwa is a town in the Mopani district of the Limpopo province in South Africa. Phalaborwa has about 13,100 residents.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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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.
Hendrik Van Eck Airport
Aerodrome
Phalaborwa Airport is an airport serving Phalaborwa, a town in the Limpopo province of South Africa. It was previously known as Hendrik van Eck Airport, named after the South African engineer and industrialist who died in 1970.
Phalaborwa
Latitude
-23.9485° or 23° 56′ 55″ southLongitude
31.1376° or 31° 8′ 15″ eastPopulation
13,100Elevation
435 metres (1,427 feet)IATA airport code
PHWUnited Nations Location Code
ZA PHWOpen location code
5G8H342Q+H2OpenStreetMap ID
node 124482342OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
965528Wikidata ID
Q1896233
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Satellite Map
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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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