Delareyville
Sign in to saveDelareyville is a salt mining, Transnet Agricultural Freight and commercial station, railway station for maize- and peanut-farming town situated in North West Province of South Africa. The town is 96 km south-west of Lichtenburg, 82 km north-east of Vryburg, 114 km north-west of Wolmaransstad, and 61 km north of Schweizer-Reneke.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Delareyville
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Delareyville, 2770, South Africa - panoramio.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Delareyville, 2770, South Africa
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- South Africa North West#South Africa#Africa
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- South Africa
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- North West
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Ngaka Modiri Molema
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- Municipality
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Tswaing
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- Main Place
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- Established
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- Councillor
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 36.53
- Settlement.population_total
- 10630
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2011
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- town
- Country
- South Africa
- Located in
- Tswaing Local Municipality
- Capital of
- Tswaing Local Municipality
- Image
- Delareyville, 2770, South Africa - panoramio.jpg
- Dialing code
- 053
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- inception
- 1914-01-01
- postal code
- 2770
- Commons category
- Delareyville
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
- Economy
- Agriculture
- Mining
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Delareyville is a salt mining, Transnet Agricultural Freight and commercial station, railway station for maize- and peanut-farming town situated in North West Province of South Africa. The town is 96 km south-west of Lichtenburg, 82 km north-east of Vryburg, 114 km north-west of Wolmaransstad, and 61 km north of Schweizer-Reneke.
==History== It was laid out in 1914 and declared a border industry area in 1968. It was named after Jacobus Herculaas (Koos) de la Rey (1847-1914), General of the Boer forces in the Anglo-Boer War.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Delareyville” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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