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For the village in Shropshire, see Uppington. Upington is a town founded in 1884 and located in the Northern Cape province of South Africa, on the banks of the Orange River.pington has a modern airport with scheduled flights provided by SA Airlink (an affiliate of South African Airways). One of the airport's runways is 4900m in length. In the first half of the 20th century there was a passenger train service from Cape Town to Upington.