Pinetown

Pinetown is a city that forms part of the , based just inland from in , . The city is situated 16 km north-west of Durban and 64 km south-east of .
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Places of Interest

Highlights include New Germany Nature Reserve and Pinetown Girls’ High School.

Nature reserve
is a protected area of coastal grassland and forest overlooking the suburb of outside of Pinetown, , .

School
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Pinetown Girls' High School is a public school for girls in Josiah Gumede road, Pinetown, , . It was founded in 1955 as Pinetown High School, a co-educational school, at its current site.

School
Pinetown Boys' High School is a public school for boys in Pinetown, , .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Glenholme Nature Reserve and Clermont.

is a 42-hectare privately managed area of grassland, scarp and swamp forest in , outside of , . A small stream in the reserve leads to a waterfall and gorge which forms one of the headwaters of the .

Town
is a township of in , . under the apartheid days was a black middle income township. Its immediate surroundings include to the north, to the west, to the south and to the east. is situated 3½ km northeast of Pinetown.

Suburb
is an industrial town situated just inland from in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It has been incorporated firstly into Pinetown and now into .

Pinetown

Latitude
-29.8181° or 29° 49′ 5″ south
Longitude
30.8842° or 30° 53′ 3″ east
Population
144,000
Elevation
323 metres (1,060 feet)
United Nations Location Code
ZA PNT
Open location code
5G2G5VJM+QM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 262721935
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
965154
Wiki­data ID
Q985839
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Pinetown” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: Pinetown
  • Asturian: Pinetown
  • Chinese: 派恩敦
  • Dutch: Pinetown
  • French: Pinetown
  • German: Pinetown
  • Pedi: Pinetown
  • Persian: پینتوون، کارولینای شمالی
  • Romanian: Pinetown
  • Russian: Пайнтаун
  • Swahili: Pinetown
  • Ukrainian: Пайнтаун
  • Urdu: پائن ٹاؤن
  • Zulu: IPinetown

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include New Germany Nature Reserve and Pinetown Police Station.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Pinetown”. Photo: landagent, CC BY-SA 3.0.