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Coordinates: 32°24′58.7″S26°40′00.1″E / 32.416306°S 26.666694°E / -32.416306; 26.666694 Devil's Bellows Pass is a mountain pass situated in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa on the regional road R351, between Fort Beaufort and Sada, Eastern Cape.

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A geographic coordinate system is a coordinate system that enables every location on Earth to be specified by a set of numbers, letters or symbols. The coordinates are often chosen such that one of the numbers represents a vertical position and two or three of the numbers represent a horizontal position; alternatively, a geographic position may be expressed in a combined three-dimensional Cartesian vector. A common choice of coordinates is latitude, longitude and elevation. To specify a location on a plane requires a map projection.

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