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Polokwane Local Municipality

Polokwane

Polokwane is a city of 130,000 people in . It is the capital of the Province. It is South Africa's largest urban centre north of Gauteng. It used to be known as Pietersburg.
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  • Type: City with 629,000 residents
  • Description: South African town
  • Also known as: “Pietersburg” and “Pietrsburg”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Old Peter Mokaba Stadium and Christ Church, Polokwane.

Stadium
is a multi-purpose stadium in Polokwane, . It was the home stadium of Ria Stars football club before they were disbanded.

Church
Christ Church is a parish in the Anglican Diocese of St Mark the Evangelist, which falls under the Anglican Church of Southern Africa. It is the only Anglican church in Polokwane. The church has a long and diverse history going back over a hundred years.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Flora Park and Bendor Park.

Suburb
, is a suburb situated in Polokwane under the in the province of .

Suburb
, is a suburb in Polokwane under the in the province of .

Suburb
, is a pre-urban human settlement situated in Polokwane under the in the province of .

Polokwane

Latitude
-23.9058° or 23° 54′ 21″ south
Longitude
29.4614° or 29° 27′ 41″ east
Population
629,000
Elevation
1,315 metres (4,314 feet)
IATA airport code
PTG
United Nations Location Codes
ZA POL and ZA PTG
Open location code
5G8F3FV6+MH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 304577692
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
965289
Wiki­data ID
Q131662
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Polokwane” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Pietersburg”
  • Afrikaans: “Polokwane”
  • Albanian: “Polokwane”
  • Amharic: “ፖሎክዋኔ”
  • Arabic: “بولوكوان”
  • Arabic: “بولوكوين”
  • Armenian: “Պոլոկվանե”
  • Asturian: “Polokwane”
  • Balinese: “Polokwane”
  • Basque: “Pietersburg”
  • Basque: “Polokwane”
  • Bavarian: “Pietersburg”
  • Bavarian: “Polokwane”
  • Belarusian: “Палакванэ”
  • Belarusian: “Пітэрсбург”
  • Bengali: “পুলোকাওয়ানে”
  • Bulgarian: “Полокване”
  • Catalan: “Pietersburg”
  • Catalan: “Polokwane”
  • Cebuano: “Polokwane (kapital sa lalawigan)”
  • Cebuano: “Polokwane”
  • Chinese: “彼得斯堡”
  • Chinese: “波洛夸內”
  • Chinese: “波洛夸内”
  • Chinese: “波羅克瓦尼”
  • Chinese: “波羅瓜尼”
  • Croatian: “Pietersburg”
  • Croatian: “Polokwane”
  • Czech: “Pietersburg”
  • Czech: “Polokwane”
  • Danish: “Pietersburg”
  • Danish: “Polokwane”
  • Dutch: “Pietersburg”
  • Dutch: “Polokwane”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بولوكوان”
  • Esperanto: “Pietersburg”
  • Esperanto: “Polokwane”
  • Estonian: “Pietersburg”
  • Estonian: “Polokwane”
  • Finnish: “Pietersburg”
  • Finnish: “Polokwane”
  • French: “Polokwane”
  • French: “Pietersburg” (historical)
  • Galician: “Pietersburg”
  • Galician: “Polokwane”
  • Georgian: “პოლოკვანე”
  • German: “Pietersburg”
  • German: “Polokwane”
  • Greek: “Πολοκουάνε”
  • Gujarati: “પોલોકવેન”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Pietersburg”
  • Hebrew: “פולוקוואנה”
  • Hebrew: “פולוקוונה”
  • Hebrew: “פיטרסבורג”
  • Hindi: “पोलक्वानी”
  • Hungarian: “Pietersburg”
  • Hungarian: “Polokwane”
  • Indonesian: “Pietersburg”
  • Indonesian: “Polokwane”
  • Irish: “Polokwane”
  • Italian: “Pietersburg”
  • Italian: “Polokwane”
  • Japanese: “ポロクワネ”
  • Javanese: “Pietersburg”
  • Javanese: “Polokwane”
  • Kannada: “ಪೊಲೊಕ್ವಾನೆ”
  • Korean: “폴로콰네”
  • Korean: “폴로퀘인”
  • Korean: “피터즈버그”
  • Latin: “Petriburgum”
  • Latin: “Pietersburg”
  • Latin: “Polokwane”
  • Latvian: “Pietersburg”
  • Latvian: “Pītersberha”
  • Latvian: “Pītersbērha”
  • Latvian: “Pītersburga”
  • Latvian: “Polokvane”
  • Latvian: “Polokwane”
  • Lithuanian: “Pitersburgas”
  • Lithuanian: “Polokvanė”
  • Macedonian: “Полокване”
  • Malagasy: “Polokwane”
  • Malay: “Pietersburg”
  • Malay: “Polokwane”
  • Marathi: “पोलोक्वाने”
  • Northern Frisian: “Polokwane”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “City of stars”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Pietersburg”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Polokwane”
  • Norwegian: “Polokwane”
  • Pedi: “Pietersburg”
  • Pedi: “Polokwane”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Pietersburg”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Polokwane”
  • Persian: “پولوکوانه”
  • Persian: “پولوکووین”
  • Persian: “پولوکوین”
  • Polish: “Pietersburg”
  • Polish: “Polokwane”
  • Portuguese: “Pietersburg”
  • Portuguese: “Pietersburgo”
  • Portuguese: “Polokwane”
  • Romanian: “Pietersburg”
  • Romanian: “Polokwane”
  • Russian: “Питерсбург”
  • Russian: “Полокване”
  • Scots: “Pietersburg”
  • Scots: “Polokwane”
  • Serbian: “Pietersburg”
  • Serbian: “Polokvane”
  • Serbian: “Polokwane”
  • Serbian: “Полокване”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Pietersburg”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Polokwane”
  • Silesian: “Pietersburg”
  • Silesian: “Polokwane”
  • Sinhala: “පොලොක්වනේ”
  • Slovenian: “Pietersburg”
  • Slovenian: “Polokwane”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پولوکوین”
  • South Ndebele: “Polokwane”
  • Southern Sotho: “Pietersburg”
  • Southern Sotho: “Polokwane”
  • Spanish: “Pietersburg”
  • Spanish: “Polokwane”
  • Swahili: “Pietersburg”
  • Swahili: “Polokwane”
  • Swedish: “Pietersburg”
  • Swedish: “Polokwane”
  • Tamil: “பொலொக்வானே”
  • Telugu: “పొలాక్ వానే”
  • Thai: “Polokwane”
  • Thai: “ปีเตอร์สเบิร์ก”
  • Thai: “โพโลควานี”
  • Thai: “โพโลเควน”
  • Tswana: “Pietersburg”
  • Tswana: “Polokwane”
  • Turkish: “Pietersburg”
  • Turkish: “Polokwane”
  • Ukrainian: “Полокване”
  • Urdu: “پولوکوانے”
  • Venda: “Pietersburg”
  • Venda: “Polokwane”
  • Veps: “Polokvane”
  • Vietnamese: “Polokwane”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Polokwane”
  • Western Panjabi: “پولوکوین”
  • Wu Chinese: “波罗克瓦尼”
  • Xhosa: “Polokwane”
  • Yoruba: “Pietersburg”
  • Yoruba: “Polokwane”
  • Yue Chinese: “波羅瓜尼”
  • Zulu: “Pietersburg”
  • Zulu: “Polokwane”

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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 “Polokwane”. Photo: Dr Mary Gillham Archive Project, CC BY 2.0.