Taung
Sign in to saveTaung 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 people. Tau is the Tswana word for lion.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Taung
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- South Africa North West#South Africa
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- South Africa
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- North West
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Dr Ruth Segomotsi Mompati
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Municipality
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Greater Taung
- Settlement.subdivision_type4
- Main Place
- Settlement.established_title
- Established
- Settlement.leader_title
- Councillor
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 20.75
- Settlement.population_total
- 18289
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2011
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- auto
- Settlement.demographics_type1
- Racial makeup (2011)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- town
- Country
- South Africa
- Located in
- Greater Taung Local Municipality
- Population
- 18289
- Area
- 20.75
- Capital of
- Greater Taung Local Municipality
- Image
- Taung child.jpg
- Dialing code
- 053
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- postal code
- 8584
- native label
- Taung
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Taung skull fossil site
- Climate
- See also
- References
- Sources
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 people. Tau is the Tswana word for lion.
==Taung skull fossil site==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Taung” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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