Located on the Orange River in the Northern Cape.

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Source: Wiki Commons

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Source: Panoramio - Daan Prinsloo

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Source: Panoramio - wal0007

I like the houses on the river with the pools! And the surrounding harshness of the landscape - Upington is something of an oasis.

Yes, Upington seems like such a nice city, and its CBD is still very clean and well maintained. Kudos to local government. It gets pretty hot in the summer (around 40C) but yes, the Orange River creates an Oasis kind of like the Nile River in Egypt does.

Diverse municipality.

Coloured people account for 50.0% of the population, followed by Black Africans at 39.8%, Whites at 10.0%, and Asians at 0.2%.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki///Khara_Hais_Local_Municipality

Diverse municipality.

Coloured people account for 50.0% of the population, followed by Black Africans at 39.8%, Whites at 10.0%, and Asians at 0.2%.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki///Khara_Hais_Local_Municipality

Interesting, thats roughly the demographics of the Northern Cape province, It's predominately Coloured.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3045/2595346636_b8b8b4cafa.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/26758904@N06/2595346636/)
Church 2, Upington, South Africa (http://www.flickr.com/photos/26758904@N06/2595346636/) by dmathfield (http://www.flickr.com/people/26758904@N06/), on Flickr

It looks like some small town in America.

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Church (http://www.flickr.com/photos/sparkytheneoncat/4210320957/) by Sparky the Neon Cat (http://www.flickr.com/people/sparkytheneoncat/), on Flickr

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Boat (http://www.flickr.com/photos/sparkytheneoncat/4210322195/) by Sparky the Neon Cat (http://www.flickr.com/people/sparkytheneoncat/), on Flickr

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Christmas lights (http://www.flickr.com/photos/sparkytheneoncat/4210317757/) by Sparky the Neon Cat (http://www.flickr.com/people/sparkytheneoncat/), on Flickr

guys i still wanna know diffrences btw coloured and black people.i c both the blacks and coloureds as "black people" .

^^ Oh boy. We literally almost need a clinical explanation for these ethnic terms once and for all. This must be the most common ethnic question about South Africa.

Without saying too much, because in the Africa forums people easily get bent out of shape about ethnicity and genetic origin talk...

Here's a pic rather...

This is an extended Cape Coloured family... They mostly Afrikaans-speaking.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/95/Coloured-family.jpg

They dominate the western half of South Africa: the map shows "Coloured" as green, "White" as yellow and pink as "Black" dominant in that area. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/South_Africa_2001_dominant_population_group_map.svg/1000px-South_Africa_2001_dominant_population_group_map.svg.png

Wikipedia "Cape Coloureds" and you'll get the answer. The sometimes-regarded-as-offensive American term is spelt "Colored" and is different as does not refer to the culturally distinct group of "brown peoples" of the Western and Northern Cape and S.Namibia.

guys i still wanna know diffrences btw coloured and black people.i c both the blacks and coloureds as "black people" .

JOHANNESBURG – A few weeks ago, a British friend of mine served a sumptuous confession as a starter for dinner, “I only realized recently that you’re not actually black!” We had met several years back in the English midlands, where, judging by her remark, I had passed as black. But now that she has lived in South Africa for a few months, she is fluent in the local racial vocabulary: things are not quite black and white.

Let me explain. In South Africa I’m referred to as “colored,” a term that does not have the same derogatory denotation here as it does in the United States when it is hurled at black Americans. I am not black. I am of mixed racial heritage, as my parents are and their parents were.

When racist colonial settlers arrived at the southern tip of Africa during the 17th century, their racism did not preclude sexual relations with the locals. Several generations later, the colored community is ostensibly an ethnic group just like the Xhosas or the Zulus or any of the other myriad groupings within South Africa’s borders. It makes up 9 percent of the country’s population of 50.6 million.

South Africans are adept at broadly classifying one another as black, white, Indian or colored, despite often complicated lineages. Some colored families, especially in the Cape Town region, have Malay origins, courtesy of the historic slave trade that brought Asians to South Africa; others have roots in the local indigenous Khoi community. Our discriminatory skills are so fine-grained that Barack Obama would not pass as colored here; the U.S. president is “biracial.”
My own half-brother, whose mother is Xhosa but whose father — our father — is colored, is also not colored; he is “mixed race,” the local linguistic marker for biracial. The criterion for being classified as colored is clear: both your parents must be colored.



http://latitude.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/15/in-south-africa-after-apartheid-colored-community-is-the-big-loser/

Hey, I'm going to make a Northern Cape Photo Gallery soon!