Rooiberg
Rooiberg | |
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Rooiberg Rooiberg Rooiberg Rooiberg shown within Limpopo | |
Coordinates: 24°46′34″S 27°44′17″E / 24.776°S 27.738°ECoordinates: 24°46′34″S 27°44′17″E / 24.776°S 27.738°E | |
Country | South Africa |
Province | Limpopo |
District | Waterberg |
Municipality | Thabazimbi |
Area[1] | |
• Total | 43.98 km2 (16.98 sq mi) |
Population (2011)[1] | |
• Total | 2,310 |
• Density | 53/km2 (140/sq mi) |
Racial makeup (2011)[1] | |
• Black African | 88.4% |
• Coloured | 0.4% |
• Indian/Asian | 0.2% |
• White | 10.8% |
• Other | 0.2% |
First languages (2011)[1] | |
• Tswana | 65.1% |
• Afrikaans | 10.3% |
• Northern Sotho | 9.0% |
• Tsonga | 4.5% |
• Other | 11.0% |
PO box | 0500 |
Area code | 014 |
Rooiberg is a town in Waterberg District Municipality in the Limpopo province of South Africa.
Town, archaeological site and tin-mining area, 50 km west-north-west of Warmbad, at the conjunction of the Springbok Flats with the Waterberg Plateau. The name is Afrikaans for ‘red mountain’.[2]
References
- 1 2 3 4 "Sub Place Rooiberg". Census 2011.
- ↑ "Dictionary of Southern African Place Names (Public Domain)". Human Science Research Council. p. 391.
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