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Kimberley

Syllabification: (Kim·ber·ley)
Pronunciation: /ˈkimbərlē/

Definition of Kimberley
  • 1a city in South Africa, in the province of Northern Cape; population 183,000 (est. 2009). It has been a diamond-mining center since the early 1870s.
  • 2 (also the Kimberleys) a plateau region in the far north of Western Australia. A mining and cattle-rearing region, it was the scene of a gold rush in 1885.

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