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Kimberley

Pronunciation: /ˈkɪmbəli/

Definition of Kimberley
  • 1a city in South Africa, the capital of Northern Cape; population 183,000 (est. 2009). It has been a diamond-mining centre since the early 1870s.
    [named after the 1st Earl of Kimberley, a British Colonial Secretary]
  • 2 (also the Kimberleys) a plateau region in the far north of Western Australia. It was the scene of a gold rush in 1885.

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