Colesberg
Colesberg is a town of 17,000 people in South Africa's Northern Cape. It is an agricultural centre for horse breeding and merino sheep farming. It is renowned for producing high-quality racehorses and many stud farms, including one owned by renowned golfer, Gary Player, are nearby.Photo: VirtualSteve, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Hendrik van den Berg, CC BY 3.0.
Colesberg
- Type: Town with 12,400 residents
- Description: place in Northern Cape, South Africa
- Category: locality
- Location: Umsobomvu Local Municipality, Pixley ka Seme District Municipality, Northern Cape Karoo, Northern Cape, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-30.7211° or 30° 43' 16" southLongitude
25.0967° or 25° 5' 48" eastPopulation
12,400Elevation
1,369 metres (4,491 feet)Open Location Code
4GX773HW+HMOpenStreetMap ID
node 26929294OpenStreetMap Feature
place=townGeoNames ID
1013076Wikidata ID
Q2232441Colesberg Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Colesberg
- Arabic: كلوزبيرغ
- Asturian: Colesberg
- Catalan: Colesberg
- Cebuano: Colesberg
- Chinese: 科尔斯伯格
- Chinese: 科爾斯伯格
- Dutch: Colesberg
- Egyptian Arabic: كلوزبيرج
- Estonian: Colesberg
- French: Colesberg
- Galician: Colesberg
- German: Colesberg
- Hebrew: קולסברג
- Italian: Colesberg
- Japanese: コールズバーグ
- Malagasy: Colesberg
- Pedi: Colesberg
- Polish: Colesberg
- Portuguese: Colesberg
- Romanian: Colesberg
- Spanish: Colesberg
- Urdu: کولسبرگ
- Zulu: IColesberg, INyakatho Kapa
- Colesberg Dorp
- Colesberg Town
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Colesberg. Photo: Hendrik van den Berg, CC BY 3.0.