Polokwane
Polokwane is a city of 130,000 people in South Africa. It is the capital of the Limpopo Province. It is South Africa's largest urban centre north of Gauteng. It used to be known as Pietersburg.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Dr Mary Gillham Archive Project, CC BY 2.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Christ Church, Polokwane
Christ Church is a parish in the Anglican Diocese of St Mark the Evangelist, which falls under the Anglican Church of Southern Africa.Old Peter Mokaba Stadium
Old Peter Mokaba Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Polokwane, South Africa.Polokwane
- Type: City with 629,000 residents
- Description: South African town
- Categories: town and locality
- Location: Polokwane Local Municipality, Capricorn District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-23.9058° or 23° 54' 21" southLongitude
29.4614° or 29° 27' 41" eastPopulation
629,000Elevation
1,315 metres (4,314 feet)Open Location Code
5G8F3FV6+MHOpenStreetMap ID
node 304577692OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
965289Wikidata ID
Q131662Polokwane Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Pietersburg
- Afrikaans: Polokwane
- Albanian: Polokwane
- Amharic: ፖሎክዋኔ
- Arabic: Polokwane
- Arabic: بولوكوان
- Arabic: بولوكوين
- Armenian: Պոլոկվանե
- Asturian: Polokwane
- Basque: Pietersburg
- Basque: Polokwane
- Bavarian: Pietersburg
- Bavarian: Polokwane
- Belarusian: Палакванэ
- Belarusian: Пітэрсбург
- Bengali: পুলোকাওয়ানে
- Bulgarian: Полокване
- Catalan: Pietersburg
- Catalan: Polokwane
- Cebuano: Polokwane (kapital sa lalawigan)
- Cebuano: Polokwane
- Chinese: 彼得斯堡
- Chinese: 波洛夸内
- Chinese: 波罗克瓦尼
- Chinese: 波羅克瓦尼
- Chinese: 波羅瓜尼
- Croatian: Pietersburg
- Croatian: Polokwane
- Czech: Pietersburg
- Czech: Polokwane
- Danish: Pietersburg
- Danish: Polokwane
- Dutch: Pietersburg
- Dutch: Polokwane
- Egyptian Arabic: بولوكوان
- English: Pietersburg
- Esperanto: Pietersburg
- Esperanto: Polokwane
- Estonian: Pietersburg
- Estonian: Polokwane
- Finnish: Pietersburg
- Finnish: Polokwane
- French (Historic): Pietersburg
- French: Pietersburg
- French: Polokwane
- French: Polokwane (ville)
- Galician: Pietersburg
- Galician: Polokwane
- Georgian: პოლოკვანე
- German: Pietersburg
- German: Polokwane
- Greek: Πολοκουάνε
- Gujarati: પોલોકવેન
- Hakka Chinese: Pietersburg
- Hausa: Pietersburg
- Hebrew: פולוקוואנה
- Hebrew: פולוקוונה
- Hebrew: פיטרסבורג
- Hindi: पोलक्वानी
- Hungarian: Pietersburg
- Hungarian: Polokwane
- Indonesian: Pietersburg
- Indonesian: Polokwane
- Irish: Polokwane
- Italian: Pietersburg
- Italian: Polokwane
- Japanese: ポロクワネ
- Javanese: Pietersburg
- Javanese: Polokwane
- Kannada: ಪೊಲೊಕ್ವಾನೆ
- Korean: 폴로콰네
- Korean: 폴로퀘인
- Korean: 피터즈버그
- Latin: Petriburgum
- Latin: Pietersburg
- Latin: Polokwane
- Latvian: Pietersburg
- Latvian: Polokvane
- Latvian: Polokwane
- Latvian: Pītersberha
- Latvian: Pītersburga
- Latvian: Pītersbērha
- Lithuanian: Pitersburgas
- Lithuanian: Polokvanė
- Macedonian: Полокване
- Malagasy: Polokwane
- Malay: Pietersburg
- Malay: Polokwane
- Marathi: पोलोक्वाने
- Northern Frisian: Polokwane
- Norwegian: Polokwane
- Norwegian Bokmål: City of stars
- Norwegian Bokmål: Pietersburg
- Norwegian Bokmål: Polokwane
- Pedi: Pietersburg
- Pedi: Polokwane
- Pennsylvania German: Pietersburg
- Pennsylvania German: Polokwane
- Persian: پولوکوانه
- Persian: پولوکووین
- Persian: پولوکوین
- Polish: Pietersburg
- Polish: Polokwane
- Portuguese: Pietersburg
- Portuguese: Pietersburgo
- Portuguese: Polokwane
- Romanian: Pietersburg
- Romanian: Polokwane
- Russian: Питерсбург
- Russian: Полокване
- Scots: Pietersburg
- Scots: Polokwane
- Serbian: Pietersburg
- Serbian: Polokvane
- Serbian: Polokwane
- Serbian: Полокване
- Serbo-Croatian: Pietersburg
- Serbo-Croatian: Polokwane
- Silesian: Pietersburg
- Silesian: Polokwane
- Sinhala: පොලොක්වනේ
- Slovenian: Pietersburg
- Slovenian: Polokwane
- South Azerbaijani: پولوکوین
- Southern Sotho: Pietersburg
- Southern Sotho: Polokwane
- Spanish: Pietersburg
- Spanish: Polokwane
- Swahili: Pietersburg
- Swahili: Polokwane
- Swedish: Pietersburg
- Swedish: Polokwane
- Tamil: பொலொக்வானே
- Telugu: పొలాక్ వానే
- Thai: Polokwane
- Thai: ปีเตอร์สเบิร์ก
- Thai: โพโลควานี
- Thai: โพโลเควน
- Tswana: Pietersburg
- Tswana: Polokwane
- Turkish: Pietersburg
- Turkish: Polokwane
- Ukrainian: Полокване
- Urdu: پولوکوانے
- Venda: Pietersburg
- Venda: Polokwane
- Veps: Polokvane
- Vietnamese: Polokwane
- Waray (Philippines): Polokwane
- Western Panjabi: پولوکوین
- Wu Chinese: 波罗克瓦尼
- Xhosa: Polokwane
- Yoruba: Pietersburg
- Yoruba: Polokwane
- Yue Chinese: 波羅瓜尼
- Zulu: Pietersburg
- Zulu: Polokwane
- Pietrsburg
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- IndustriaSuburb
- SterparkSuburb
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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 Polokwane. Photo: Dr Mary Gillham Archive Project, CC BY 2.0.