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R378 (South Africa)

road in South Africa

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ7274660 ↗
Source-derived summary

The R378 is a Regional Route in South Africa that connects Vryburg with Bray, North West via Terra Firma.

Its north-western origin is the R375 at Bray. It heads roughly south-east, through Tosca to meet the south-eastern origin of the R379. The route maintains a south-easterly direction, through Crafthole and Ganyesa to end at Vryburg at the N14.

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The public source identifies “R378 (South Africa)” as road in South Africa. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around R378, South and Africa.

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This entry incorporates text from “R378 (South Africa)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.