Strydenburg is a town in the east of the

Northern Cape The Northern Cape is the largest and most sparsely populated province of South Africa. It was created in 1994 when the Cape Province was split up. Its capital is Kimberley. It includes the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park, part of the Kgalagadi T ...

province in

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. Seventy-seven km north of

Britstown Britstown is a small farming town situated in the Northern Cape province of South Africa, in the Pixley ka Seme District Municipality, Emthanjeni Local Municipality. The town is named after Hans Brits who settled here after he accompanied David Li ...

, it was laid out by the

Dutch Reformed Church The Dutch Reformed Church (, abbreviated NHK) was the largest Christian denomination in the Netherlands from the onset of the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century until 1930. It was the original denomination of the Dutch Royal Family and ...

on the farm ''Roodepan'' in 1892. It also lies on the N12, which separates the actual town from its

township A township is a kind of human settlement or administrative subdivision, with its meaning varying in different countries. Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, that tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, Ca ...

. The town is 55 km south-west of

Hopetown Hopetown is a town which lies at the edge of the Great Karoo in South Africa's Northern Cape province. It is situated on an arid slope leading down to the Orange River. The first diamond discovered in South Africa, the Eureka Diamond, was fo ...

and 75 km north-north-west of

. It was laid out in 1892 on the farm Roodepan and attained municipal status in 1914. The name is Dutch for ‘town of argument’. The name refers to disagreement as to on which farm it should be situated.

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* Populated places in the Thembelihle Local Municipality Karoo Populated places established in 1892 {{NorthernCape-geo-stub