This is a list of cities and towns in the
North West Province
North West is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Mahikeng. The province is located to the west of the major population centre of Gauteng and south of Botswana.
History
North West was incorporated after the end of Apartheid in 1994, an ...
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South Africa
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Dr Ruth Segomotsi Mompati District Municipality
Dr Ruth Segomotsi Mompati District Municipality (formerly Bophirima District Municipality) is one of the 4 districts of North West province of South Africa. The seat of Mompati District is Vryburg. The majority of its 439,637 people speak Setswana ...
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Amalia
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Bray
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Ganyesa
Ganyesa is a town of about 19,000 people in the North West province of South Africa. It is located north-west of Vryburg and about south-west of the provincial capital Mafikeng.
It is an administrative centre for the far north-western area of t ...
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Mareetsane
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Morokweng
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Motlhabeng
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Reivilo
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Schweizer-Reneke
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Setlagole
Setlagole ''(Se tla a gola)'' is a historical Setswana village next to the N18 in Ngaka Modiri Molema District Municipality in the North West province of South Africa
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Stella
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Taung
Taung is a small town situated in the North West Province of South Africa. The name means ''place of the lion'' and was named after Tau, the King of the Barolong. ''Tau'' is the Tswana word for lion.
Education
High,Secondary and Middle Schools ...
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Tosca
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Vryburg
Vryburg () is a large agricultural town with a population of 48,400 situated in the Dr Ruth Segomotsi Mompati District Municipality of the North West Province of South Africa. It is the seat and the industrial and agricultural heartland of the di ...
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Setlopo
Bojanala Platinum District Municipality
Bojanala Platinum is one of the 4 districts of North West province of South Africa. The seat of Bojanala Platinum is Rustenburg. The majority of its 1,507,505 people speak Setswana (2011 Census). The district code is DC37.
Geography Neighbours
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Babelegi
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Beestekraal
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Brits
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Broederstroom
Broederstroom is a small town situated on the Daspoortrand in the foothills of the Magaliesberg mountains in the North West Province of South Africa.
History
Settlement in the Witwatersberg, south of the Hartbeespoort Dam, in the former Pretori ...
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Derby
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Hartbeespoort
Hartbeespoort, informally also known as "Harties", is a small resort town in the North West Province of South Africa, situated on slopes of the Magaliesberg mountain and the banks of the Hartbeespoort Dam. The name of the town means "gateway of t ...
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Hekpoort
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Jericho
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Kosmos
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Koster
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Kroondal
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Legogolwe
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Maanhaarrand
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Manamakgoteng
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Mmakau
Mmakau is a village in Bojanala District Municipality in the North West province of South Africa. It is located about 12 km to the east of Brits, and 40 kilometres north-west of Pretoria
Pretoria () is South Africa's administrative capital, ...
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Mogwase
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Mooinooi
Mooinooi is a platinum and palladium mining town in the North West province of South Africa, roughly halfway between Brits and Rustenburg.
Formerly a boomtown
A boomtown is a community that undergoes sudden and rapid population and economi ...
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Mathibestad
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Mononono
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Ramokokastad
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Rooikoppies (Marikana)
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Rustenburg
Rustenburg (; , Afrikaans and Dutch: ''City of Rest'') is a city at the foot of the Magaliesberg mountain range. Rustenburg is the most populous city in North West province, South Africa (549,575 in 2011 and 626,522 in the 2016 census). In 20 ...
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Skeerpoort
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Swartruggens
Swartruggens is a small farming town in North West Province (South Africa), North West Province, South Africa that was established in 1875.
Location
The town is located by the Elands River (North West), Elands River, 69 km from the town of ...
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Ngaka Modiri Molema District Municipality
Ngaka Modiri Molema District Municipality (formerly Central District Municipality) is one of the four districts of North West province in South Africa. Its capital is Mahikeng, which is also the capital of the province.
Geography Neighbours
Ngaka ...
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Biesiesvlei
Biesiesvlei is a settlement in Ditsobotla Local Municipality in the North West province of South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to ...
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Coligny
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Delareyville
Delareyville is a 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 ...
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Ganyesa
Ganyesa is a town of about 19,000 people in the North West province of South Africa. It is located north-west of Vryburg and about south-west of the provincial capital Mafikeng.
It is an administrative centre for the far north-western area of t ...
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Groot Marico
Groot Marico is a hamlet in the North West Province of South Africa. The economy relies heavily on agriculture, mining and tourism. Groot Marico is named after the Marico River.
Description
The topography comprises dry bushveld with a climate that ...
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Itsoseng
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Lichtenburg
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Mareetsane
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Mafeking (Mahikeng)
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Mmabatho
Mmabatho ( Tswana for "Mother of the People") is the former capital of the North-West Province of South Africa. During the apartheid era, it was the capital of the former "Bantustan" of Bophuthatswana. Following the end of apartheid in 1994, Boph ...
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Ottosdal
Ottosdal is a small town situated at an altitude of 1,479 meters (4,855 feet) on the branch railway line from Makwassie in the central North West Province of South Africa. Ottosdal is a farming community engaged in the growing of grains such as m ...
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Ottoshoop
Ottoshoop is one of the small towns in the Mahikeng Local Municipality in the North West Province of South Africa, situated 20km from the city of Mahikeng on the way to the town of Zeerust. Residents serve the scanty needs of a few locals, underwat ...
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Sannieshof
Sannieshof is a small farming town situated in North West Province of South Africa. It started as a post office to serve the farms in the district and was named in honour of the first postmaster, John Voorendijk's wife Sannie. The village is 40&nb ...
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Welbedacht (Lehurutshe)
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Zeerust
Zeerust is a commercial town situated in Ngaka Modiri Molema district North West Province, South Africa. It lies in the Marico valley, approximately 240 kilometres northwest of Johannesburg. It lies on the N4, the main road link between Sout ...
Dr Kenneth Kaunda District Municipality
Dr Kenneth Kaunda District Municipality (formerly Southern District Municipality) is one of the 4 districts of North West province of South Africa. The seat of Kaunda District is Klerksdorp. A plurality of its 742 821 people speak Setswana (2016 ...
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Bloemhof
Bloemhof is an agricultural town of about 2,000 inhabitants situated on the banks of the Vaal River in North West Province (South Africa), North West Province of South Africa.
History
It was founded in August 1864 when diamonds were discovered i ...
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Christiana
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Hartbeesfontein
Hartbeesfontein, officially Lethabong, is a settlement near Klerksdorp, in the North West province of South Africa. It is situated at the intersection of the R503 and R507 routes.
Geology
The town is situated on an ancient geological feature k ...
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Klerksdorp
Klerksdorp () is located in the North West Province, South Africa. Klerksdorp, the largest city in the North West Province, is located southeast of Mahikeng, the provincial capital. Klerksdorp was also the first capital of the then Transvaal Repu ...
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Leeudoringstad
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Makwassie
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Orkney
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Potchefstroom
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Stilfontein
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Ventersdorp
Ventersdorp is a town of 4,200 in Dr Kenneth Kaunda District Municipality, North West Province, South Africa. It was the seat of the defunct Ventersdorp Local Municipality until 2016.
Ventersdorp is centrally located, making it easier to access m ...
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Wolmaransstad
{{Administrative divisions of South Africa
North West
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