Vryheid
Vryheid is a coal-mining and cattle-ranching town of 47,000 people in Zululand, South Africa. Vryheid is the Afrikaans word for "freedom".
Vryheid
- Type: Town with 150,000 residents
- Description: town in South Africa
- Category: locality
- Location: Abaqulusi Local Municipality, Zululand District Municipality, Zululand, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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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
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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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”
- Urdu: “ورائی ہیڈ”
- Waray (Philippines): “Vryheid”
- Zulu: “IVryheid”
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