Uitenhage
Uitenhage, officially renamed Kariega, is a South African town in the Eastern Cape Province. It is well known for the Volkswagen factory located there, which is the biggest car factory on the African continent.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Janek Szymanowski, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town with 104,000 residents
- Description: South African city
- Also known as: “Kariega”
- Neighbors: Humansdorp
Places of Interest
Highlights include Uitenhage and Muir College.
Muir College
School
Muir College is a semi-private English medium high school for boys situated in the suburb of Vanes Estate in Kariega in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. Muir College is situated 4 km northeast of Uitenhage.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include KwaNobuhle.
KwaNobuhle
Town
KwaNobuhle is the largest township on the outskirts of Uitenhage in the Eastern Cape province of the Republic of South Africa. It was formed during the time of Forced Removals, officially opened in 1967. The meaning of KwaNobuhle is "beautiful place". KwaNobuhle is situated 4½ km south of Uitenhage.
Uitenhage
- Categories: big city and locality
- Location: Nelson Mandela Bay, Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality, Eastern Cape, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-33.7679° or 33° 46′ 4″ southLongitude
25.3978° or 25° 23′ 52″ eastPopulation
104,000Elevation
122 metres (400 feet)Inception
April 25th, 1804United Nations Location Code
ZA UHGOpen location code
4GR769JX+R4OpenStreetMap ID
node 946025154OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
946877Wikidata ID
Q1020192
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Uitenhage” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Uitenhage”
- Arabic: “يوتينهاغ”
- Bulgarian: “Ютънхах”
- Catalan: “Uitenhage”
- Cebuano: “Uitenhage”
- Chinese: “埃滕哈赫”
- Chinese: “尤丹赫支”
- Chinese: “尤坦黑格”
- Chinese: “艾滕哈赫”
- Danish: “Uitenhage”
- Dutch: “Uitenhage”
- Esperanto: “Uitenhage”
- Estonian: “Uitenhage”
- Finnish: “Uitenhage”
- French: “Kariega”
- French: “Uitenhage”
- German: “Kariega”
- German: “Uitenhage”
- Irish: “Uitenhage”
- Italian: “Uitenhage”
- Japanese: “オイテンハーヘ”
- Japanese: “ユイテンヘーグ”
- Malagasy: “Uitenhage”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Uitenhage”
- Norwegian: “Uitenhage”
- Pedi: “Uitenhage”
- Persian: “اویتنهاگ”
- Polish: “Uitenhage”
- Portuguese: “Uitenhage”
- Romanian: “Uitenhage”
- Russian: “Эйтенхахе”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Uitenhage”
- Slovenian: “Utienhage”
- Southern Sotho: “Uitenhage”
- Spanish: “Uitenhage”
- Swahili: “Uitenhage”
- Swedish: “Uitenhage”
- Thai: “ออยเทนฮาเก”
- Ukrainian: “Ейтенхахе”
- Ukrainian: “Карієга”
- Urdu: “یوٹینہیج”
- Venetian: “Uitenhage”
- Zulu: “Uitenhage”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Victoria Tower Complex and Kariega Post Office.
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