Koingnaas is a village in
Namakwa District Municipality in the
Northern Cape
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province of
South Africa
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. It is located 65 km south of
Kleinzee.
Established in 1970, Koingnaas was once a flourishing diamond-mining town and
satellite town
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to
Kleinzee. Since
De Beers
The De Beers Group is a South African–British corporation that specializes in the diamond industry, including mining, exploitation, retail, inscription, grading, trading and industrial diamond manufacturing. The company is active in open-pi ...
' departure, the population has fallen rapidly from its peak of about 1,000 inhabitants.
References
Populated places in the Kamiesberg Local Municipality
Populated places established in 1970
1970 establishments in South Africa
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