Kimberley
Kimberley is the capital of the Northern Cape Province of South Africa. Amongst other things, it is famous for its Big Hole, the world's largest hand-dug excavation that was created when thousands of people searched for diamonds at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries.Photo: NJR ZA, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Big Hole
The Kimberley Mine or Tim Kuilmine is an open-pit and underground mine in Kimberley, South Africa…
Honoured Dead Memorial
The Honoured Dead Memorial is a provincial heritage site in Kimberley in the Northern Cape province of South Africa.
McGregor Museum
Museum
The McGregor Museum in Kimberley, South Africa, originally known as the Alexander McGregor Memorial Museum, is a multidisciplinary museum which serves Kimberley and the Northern Cape, established in 1907.
Localities in the Area
Beaconsfield
Suburb
Beaconsfield is the name of a suburb of Kimberley, South Africa, formerly known as Du Toit's Pan.
Kimberley
- Type: City with 225,000 residents
- Description: city in the Northern Cape, South Africa
- Categories: town and locality
- Location: Sol Plaatjie, Frances Baard District Municipality, Diamond Fields, Northern Cape, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-28.7383° or 28° 44' 18" southLongitude
24.7642° or 24° 45' 51" eastPopulation
225,000Elevation
1,224 metres (4,016 feet)IATA airport code
KIMUnited Nations Location Code
ZA KIMOpen Location Code
5G367Q67+MMOpenStreetMap ID
node 3691546096OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
990930Wikidata ID
Q125905Kimberley Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Kimberley
- Arabic: Kimberley, Northern Cape
- Arabic: كيمبرلي
- Armenian: Քիմբերլի
- Asturian: Kimberley
- Awadhi: किम्बरली
- Azerbaijani: Kimberli
- Basque: Kimberley
- Belarusian: Кімберлі (ПАР)
- Belarusian: Кімберлі
- Bengali: কিমবার্লি, উত্তর অন্তরীপ
- Bengali: কিমবার্লি
- Breton: Kimberley (Suafrika)
- Breton: Kimberley
- Bulgarian: Кимбърли
- Catalan: Kimberley
- Cebuano: Kimberley
- Chinese: 金伯利
- Chinese: 金巴利
- Croatian: Kimberley, Južnoafrička Republika
- Czech: Kimberley
- Danish: Kimberley
- Dimli (individual language): Kimberley
- Dutch: Kimberley
- Egyptian Arabic: كيمبرلى
- English: De Beer's New Rush
- English: Kimberley, Northern Cape
- Esperanto: Kimberley
- Estonian: Kimberley
- Finnish: Kimberley
- French: Kimberley
- Galician: Kimberley
- German: Kimberley
- Greek: Κίμπερλεϊ
- Gujarati: કિમ્બર્લે
- Hakka Chinese: Kimberley
- Hausa: Kimberley
- Hebrew: קימברלי
- Hindi: किम्बरली
- Hungarian: Kimberley
- Indonesian: Kimberley, Afrika Selatan
- Italian: Kimberley
- Japanese: キンバリー
- Kannada: ಕಿಂಬರ್ಲಿ
- Korean: 킴벌리
- Latin: Kimberley
- Latvian: Kimberlija
- Lithuanian: Kimberlis
- Malay: Kimberley
- Malayalam: കിംബേർലി
- Maori: Kimari
- Marathi: किंबर्ले
- Marathi: किम्बर्ली
- Nepali: किमबर्ली
- Northern Frisian: Kimberley (Steed uun Süüdaafrika)
- Northern Frisian: Kimberley
- Norwegian: Kimberley
- Norwegian Bokmål: Kimberley
- Pedi: Kimberley
- Pennsylvania German: Kimberley
- Persian: کیمبرلی
- Polish: Kimberley
- Portuguese: Kimberley
- Romanian: Kimberley
- Russian: Кимберли
- Scots: Kimberley
- Serbian: Кимберли
- Serbo-Croatian: Kimberley, Južna Afrika
- Serbo-Croatian: Kimberley, Južnoafrička Republika
- Sinhala: කිම්බර්ලි
- Slovenian: Kimberley
- South Azerbaijani: کیمبرلی (گونئی آفریقا)
- South Azerbaijani: کیمبرلی
- Southern Sotho: Kimberley
- Spanish: Kimberley
- Spanish: Kimberley (Sudáfrica)
- Swahili: Kimberley
- Swahili: Kukimbilia Mpya kwa De Beer
- Swati: Kimberley, eNyakatfo yeKapa
- Swedish: Kimberley, Sydafrika
- Swedish: Kimberley
- Tamil: கிம்பெறலே
- Telugu: కింబర్లీ
- Thai: คิม เบอรี่
- Thai: คิมเบอร์ลีย์
- Tswana: Kimberley
- Turkish: Kimberley
- Ukrainian: Кімберлі
- Urdu: کمبرلی، شمالی کیپ
- Uzbek: Kimberli
- Venda: Kimberley
- Vietnamese: Kimberley
- Waray (Philippines): Kimberley, Northern Cape
- Welsh: Kimberley (De Affrica)
- Welsh: Kimberley (Talaith Gogledd y Penrhyn)
- Welsh: Kimberley, De Affrica
- Welsh: Kimberley, Noord-Kaap
- Welsh: Kimberley
- Western Panjabi: کمبرلے
- Wu Chinese: 金伯利 (北开普省)
- Xhosa: IKhimbali
- Yoruba: Kimberley
- Yue Chinese: 金巴利
- Zeeuws: Kimberley (Zuid-Afrika)
- Zeeuws: Kimberley
- Zulu: Kimberley
- 金伯利（北开普省）
Other Places Named Kimberley
Localities in the Area
- Kimberley NorthSuburb
- De BeersSuburb
- AlbertynshofSuburb
- New ParkSuburb
- West EndSuburb
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