Newcastle
Newcastle is the third largest city in KwaZulu-Natal with a population of about 508,000. Newcastle is also known as the "New City". Set at the foothills of the northern KwaZulu-Natal Drakensberg Mountains, Newcastle is located in the northwest corner of the province along the Ncandu River and is one of the country's main industrial centres.Photo: Marco Scholtz, Public domain.
Photo: Viresh Mahabeer, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Fort Amiel Museum
Fort Amiel Museum is in Newcastle KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.Newcastle
- Type: City with 363,000 residents
- Description: city in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
- Categories: town and locality
- Location: Newcastle Local Municipality, Amajuba District Municipality, Battlefields, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-27.7628° or 27° 45' 46" southLongitude
29.9239° or 29° 55' 26" eastPopulation
363,000Elevation
1,195 metres (3,921 feet)IATA airport code
NCSUnited Nations Location Code
ZA NCSOpen Location Code
5G4F6WPF+VHOpenStreetMap ID
node 30670039OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
971421Wikidata ID
Q1027294Newcastle Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Newcastle, KwaZulu-Natal
- Afrikaans: Newcastle
- Arabic: Newcastle, KwaZulu-Natal
- Arabic: نيوكاسل
- Asturian: Newcastle
- Bengali: নিউক্যাসল
- Cebuano: Newcastle
- Chinese: 新堡
- Chinese: 紐卡素
- Chinese: 纽卡斯尔
- Danish: Newcastle
- Dutch: Newcastle
- Egyptian Arabic: نيوكاسل
- English: Newcastle, KwaZulu-Natal
- Esperanto: Newcastle
- Esperanto: Novkastelo
- Estonian: Newcastle (LAV)
- Estonian: Newcastle
- Finnish: Newcastle
- French: Newcastle
- German: Newcastle
- Greek: Νιούκαστλ
- Gujarati: ન્યૂકેસલ
- Hindi: न्यूकैसल
- Indonesian: Newcastle
- Italian: Newcastle
- Japanese: ニューカッスル (南アフリカ)
- Japanese: ニューカッスル
- Kannada: ನ್ಯೂಕ್ಯಾಸೆಲ್
- Korean: 뉴캐슬
- Latvian: Ņūkāsla
- Lithuanian: Niukastlas
- Malay: Newcastle
- Marathi: न्यूकॅसल
- Norwegian: Newcastle
- Norwegian Bokmål: Newcastle
- Pedi: Newcastle, KwaZulu Natala
- Pedi: Newcastle
- Polish: Newcastle
- Portuguese: Newcastle
- Romanian: Newcastle, Africa de Sud
- Romanian: Newcastle
- Russian: Ньюкасл
- Serbo-Croatian: Newcastle, Južna Afrika
- Serbo-Croatian: Newcastle, Južnoafrička Republika
- Shona: Newcastle, KwaZulu-Natal
- Shona: Newcastle
- Sinhala: නිව්කාස්ල්
- Spanish: Newcastle
- Swahili: Newcastle (Afrika Kusini)
- Swedish: Newcastle
- Tamil: நியூகேஸில்
- Telugu: న్యూకాజిల్
- Thai: นิวคาสเซิล
- Tswana: Newcastle, KwaZulu-Natal
- Turkish: Newcastle
- Ukrainian: Ньюкасл
- Urdu: نیوکیسل
- Vietnamese: Newcastle
- Waray (Philippines): Newcastle
- Zulu: INewcastle
Other Places Named Newcastle
Localities in the Area
- ParadiseSuburb
- Newcastle CentralSuburb
- Sury AvilleSuburb
- LennoxtonSuburb
- Newcastle CBDSuburb
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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 Newcastle. Photo: Viresh Mahabeer, CC BY-SA 4.0.