Richards Bay is a city in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, established in 1969 on a 30-square-kilometre lagoon of the Mhlatuze River. It has the deepest natural harbour on the African continent and one of the country's largest ports, and had a population of 57,387 at the 2022 count.
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Founding Year Elevation (m) Latitude28.782778 degrees south 2 Elevation Band Climate Zone Sources
1. GeoNames: Richards Bay
GeoNames geonameid 962367 (Richards Bay), cities500/allCountries bulk dump, matched by primary name + country + coordinates within 25km (w-bbfill-geography6-0926)View the Source 2. Richards Bay (Wikidata)
P571 (inception)
+1879-01-01T00:00:00Z
P625 (coordinate location)
latitude -28.782778, longitude 32.0375
P2044 (elevation above sea level)
elevation 9 m
View the Source3. GeoNames: Richards Bay - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 962367
-28.78301 32.03768 P PPLA2 ZA 02 DC28 KZN282 252968 9 Africa/Johannesburg
Place record, elevation
Elevation ca. 9 m
View the Source 4. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell -28.75, 32.25Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell -28.75, 32.25
-28.75 32.25 Cfa
Richards Bay (Wikipedia)
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