Taung
Taung is a town of 18,000 people in the North West Province. Taung is mainly known for its cultural background and holding cultural events such as the annual Cultural Calabash.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.- Type: Village with 18,300 residents
- Description: town in North West Province, South Africa
- Also known as: “Taungs”
Taung
- Categories: town and locality
- Location: Dr Ruth Segomotsi Mompati District Municipality, North West Province, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-27.5533° or 27° 33′ 12″ south
Longitude
24.7663° or 24° 45′ 59″ east
Population
18,300
Elevation
1,118 metres (3,668 feet)
Open location code
5G46CQW8+MG
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Taung” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Taung”
- Arabic: “تونغ”
- Armenian: “Թաունգ”
- Asturian: “Taung”
- Azerbaijani: “Taunq”
- Chinese: “塔翁”
- Dutch: “Taung”
- Egyptian Arabic: “تونج”
- Estonian: “Taung”
- French: “Taung”
- Galician: “Taung”
- German: “Taung”
- Hebrew: “טאונג”
- Italian: “Taung”
- Japanese: “タウング”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Taung”
- Norwegian: “Taung”
- Pedi: “Taung”
- Polish: “Taung”
- Romanian: “Taung”
- Russian: “Таунг”
- Serbian: “Тaунг”
- Serbian: “Таунг”
- Spanish: “Lugar fosil de Taung Skull”
- Spanish: “Lugar fósil de Taung Skull”
- Spanish: “Taung”
- Tswana: “Taung”
- Turkish: “Taung”
- Urdu: “ٹاونگ”
- Zulu: “ITaung”
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