Mier (municipality)

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Municipal area until 2016

Mier is a former local church in the ZF Mgcawu district , Northern Cape Province , South Africa . In 2011 the population was 7,003 on a total area of ​​11,730 km². The seat of the municipal administration was Mier .

Sea is the Afrikaans term for "sea". When the first German missionaries visited this area, the depressions were so full of water that they were called the sea . A sound shift turned it into Mier.

At almost 99 percent, Mier was the municipality with the highest proportion of Afrikaans-speaking inhabitants in South Africa. In 2016, the community was incorporated into the newly founded Local Municipality Dawid Kruiper .

Localities

  • Mier
  • Philandersbron
  • Rietfontein

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website municipal boundaries
  2. ↑ Explanation of the name ( Memento of August 29, 2019 in the Internet Archive ) (English)

Coordinates: 26 ° 44 ′  S , 20 ° 16 ′  E