North West Province
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| Area | 116,320 km2 (9.5% of country's total) |
| Population Total (2001) - Density | 3,669,349 (8.2% of total) 32/km2 |
| GDP | xx% of the country's total |
| Languages | Setswana (65.36%), Afrikaans (7.51%), isiXhosa (5.85%), Sesotho (5.70%), Xitsonga (4.71%), Sepedi (4.18%), isiZulu (2.52%), isiNdebele (1.34%), English (1.16%) |
| Races | Black African 91.5%, White 6.7%, Coloured 1.6%, Indian/Asian 0.3% |
| Capital | Mafikeng |
| Other main centres | Brits, Ga-Rankuwa, Klerksdorp, Mabopane, Orkney, Potchefstroom, Rustenburg, Stilfontein |
North West Province is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Mafikeng. It was created after the end of Apartheid in 1994, and includes parts of the former Transvaal province and Cape Province, as well as most of the former Bantustan of Bophuthatswana.
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External links
- A history and description of the North West Province (http://uk.geocities.com/landswapen/9prov/NorthWest.html)
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| Eastern Cape | Free State | Gauteng | KwaZulu-Natal | Limpopo | Mpumalanga | Northern Cape | North West | Western Cape | |
fr:Province du Nord-Ouest ja:北西州 (南アフリカ) nl:Noordwest sv:North-West (Sydafrika)
