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Phalaborwa (translated to English as better than the south; phala means better than and borwa means south) is a town in the Mopani District Municipality, Limpopo province, South Africa.

Key facts

Settlement.name
Phalaborwa
Settlement.image_skyline
Phalaborwa.jpg
Settlement.image_caption
The entrance sign to Phalaborwa
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South Africa Limpopo#South Africa
Settlement.subdivision_type
Country
Settlement.subdivision_name
South Africa
Settlement.subdivision_type1
Province
Settlement.subdivision_name1
Limpopo
Settlement.subdivision_type2
District
Settlement.subdivision_name2
Mopani
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Municipality
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Ba-Phalaborwa
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Main Place
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Established
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Councillor
Settlement.area_total_km2
193.33
Settlement.elevation_m
437
Settlement.population_total
13108

via Wikipedia infobox

Wikidata facts

Instance of
town
Population
13108
Elevation
435
Image
Phalaborwa.jpg
Dialing code
015
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inception
1957-01-01
Commons category
Phalaborwa
postal code
1389
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Phalaborwa (translated to English as better than the south; phala means better than and borwa means south) is a town in the Mopani District Municipality, Limpopo province, South Africa.

==Name== The place was called "Phalaborwa" by the Sotho tribes who migrated from the south to the area. The name means "better than the south".

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Phalaborwa” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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