Phalaborwa
Sign in to savePhalaborwa (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
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- 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
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- 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
- Country
- South Africa
- Located in
- Ba-Phalaborwa Local Municipality
- Population
- 13108
- Elevation
- 435
- Capital of
- Ba-Phalaborwa Local Municipality
- 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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