Okiep (Q1003356)

matcher place: Nama Khoi Local Municipality (relation 81968)
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English Wikipedia categories: 1852 establishments in the Cape Colony, Copper mines in South Africa, Mining communities in South Africa, Populated places established in 1852, Populated places in the Nama Khoi Local Municipality, Underground mines in South Africa

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Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Okiep is a small town in the Northern Cape province of South Africa, and was in the 1870s ranked as having the richest copper mine in the world. The town is on the site of a spring that was known in the Khoekhoe language of the Nama people as U-gieb (large brackish place) and was originally spelled as O'okiep.

Summary from Nederlands / Dutch Wikipedia (nlwiki)

Okiep is een kopermijndorp in de gemeente Nama Khoi in de Zuid-Afrikaanse provincie Noord-Kaap. Het dorp ligt ten noorden van het hoofddorp van dit district, Springbok. Okiep ligt op een hoogte van 1159 meter en telt 6300 inwoners.

Wikidata location: -29.5958, 17.8808 view on OSM or edit on OSM

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node: O'Kiep (OSM), 188 m from Wikidata [show tags]

name: O'Kiep
is_in: Northern Cape, South Africa
place: village
source: sagns
sagns_id: 113603
wikidata: Q1003356
wikipedia: en:Okiep

wikidata match: Q1003356

Search criteria from Wikidata

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locality (Q3257686)	place=locality
town (Q3957)	place=town

Search criteria from categories

Copper mines in South Africa	gnis:feature_type=Mine, landuse=quarry, man_made=mine, industrial=mine, man_made=mineshaft
Populated places established in 1852	boundary=administrative, landuse=residential, place, admin_level
Populated places in the Nama Khoi Local Municipality	boundary=administrative, landuse=residential, place, admin_level
Underground mines in South Africa	gnis:feature_type=Mine, landuse=quarry, man_made=mine, industrial=mine, man_made=mineshaft