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Vryheid

Vryheid is a coal-mining and cattle-ranching town of 47,000 people in , . Vryheid is the Afrikaans word for "freedom".
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Vryheid

Latitude
-27.7705° or 27° 46′ 14″ south
Longitude
30.7886° or 30° 47′ 19″ east
Population
150,000
Elevation
1,170 metres (3,839 feet)
IATA airport code
VYD
United Nations Location Code
ZA VYD
Open location code
5G4G6QHQ+RC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 259452927
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
942470
Wiki­data ID
Q1023254
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Vryheid” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Vryheid, KwaZulu Natal”
  • Afrikaans: “Vryheid, KwaZulu-Natal”
  • Arabic: “فرايهيد”
  • Asturian: “Vryheid”
  • Breton: “Vryheid”
  • Catalan: “Vryheid”
  • Cebuano: “Vryheid”
  • Chinese: “弗莱海德”
  • Chinese: “弗萊海德”
  • Chinese: “維里海德”
  • Dutch: “Vryheid”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “فرايهيد”
  • Esperanto: “Vryheid”
  • Estonian: “Vryheid”
  • French: “Vryheid”
  • German: “Vryheid”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Vryheid”
  • Italian: “Vryheid”
  • Japanese: “ヴリヘイド”
  • Malagasy: “Vryheid”
  • Novial: “Vryheid, Kwazulu-Natal”
  • Novial: “Vryheid”
  • Pedi: “Vryheid, KwaZulu Natala”
  • Pedi: “Vryheid”
  • Polish: “Vryheid”
  • Portuguese: “Vryheid”
  • Romanian: “Vryheid”
  • Russian: “Фрейхейд”
  • Slovenian: “Vryheid”
  • Spanish: “Vryheid”
  • Swahili: “Vryheid”
  • Swedish: “Vryheid”
  • Ukrainian: “Вригейд”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Vryheid”
  • Zulu: “IVryheid”

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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 “Vryheid”. Photo: JMK, CC BY-SA 3.0.