Upington
Upington is the next biggest city in South Africa's Northern Cape Province after Kimberley and a good starting point to the famous Augrabies Falls. The town is situated on the banks of the Orange River.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Hp.Baumeler, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Upington railway station.
Upington railway station
Railway station
Photo: Andre Kritzinger, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Upington railway station is a railway station serving the town of Upington in South Africa. It has been part of the TransNamib Railway that connected Windhoek with the town. The service stopped early in the 2000s.
Upington
- Type: City with 74,800 residents
- Description: town in South Africa
- Categories: town, big city, and locality
- Location: //Khara Hais Local Municipality, ZF Mgcawu District Municipality, Green Kalahari, Northern Cape, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-28.4563° or 28° 27′ 23″ southLongitude
21.2419° or 21° 14′ 31″ eastPopulation
74,800Elevation
808 metres (2,651 feet)IATA airport code
UTNUnited Nations Location Code
ZA UTNOpen location code
5G33G6VR+FPOpenStreetMap ID
node 33364951OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
945945Wikidata ID
Q575780
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Upington” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Upington”
- Arabic: “آبنغتون”
- Asturian: “Upington”
- Bengali: “আপিংটন”
- Cebuano: “Upington”
- Chinese: “乌平通”
- Chinese: “烏平通”
- Danish: “Upington”
- Dutch: “Upington”
- Egyptian Arabic: “آبنجتون”
- Esperanto: “Upington”
- Estonian: “Upington”
- Finnish: “Upington”
- French: “Upington”
- German: “Upington”
- Greek: “Άπινγκτον”
- Gujarati: “અપિંગ્ટન”
- Hebrew: “אפינגטון”
- Hindi: “अपिंगटन”
- Indonesian: “Upington”
- Irish: “Upington”
- Italian: “Upington”
- Japanese: “アピントン”
- Japanese: “ウピングトン”
- Kannada: “ಅಪಿಂಗ್ಟನ್”
- Korean: “어핑턴”
- Latin: “Upington”
- Latvian: “Apingtona”
- Lithuanian: “Apingtonas”
- Malagasy: “Upington”
- Malay: “Upington”
- Marathi: “अपिंग्टन”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Upintong”
- Pedi: “Upington”
- Pennsylvania German: “Upington”
- Polish: “Upington”
- Portuguese: “Upington”
- Romanian: “Upington”
- Russian: “Апингтон”
- Sinhala: “උපින්ග්ටන්”
- Slovenian: “Upington”
- Spanish: “Upington”
- Swahili: “Upington”
- Swedish: “Upington”
- Tamil: “உபின்க்ட்டன்”
- Telugu: “ఉపింగ్టన్”
- Thai: “อัปพิงตัน”
- Turkish: “Upington”
- Ukrainian: “Апінгтон”
- Urdu: “وپینجتون”
- Venetian: “Upington”
- Vietnamese: “Upington”
- Yue Chinese: “烏平通”
- Zulu: “I-Upington”
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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 “Upington”. Photo: Hp.Baumeler, CC BY-SA 4.0.