Paterson
Paterson is a settlement in Sarah Baartman District Municipality in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. The town is located some 80 kilometres north-west of Alexandria and 21 kilometres north of Nanaga on the N10 National Route.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 6,690 residents
- Description: human settlement in South Africa
- Also known as: “Paterson, Eastern Cape”, “Paterson, South Africa”, and “Sandflats”
Paterson
Latitude
-33.43972° or 33° 26′ 23″ southLongitude
25.97278° or 25° 58′ 22″ eastPopulation
6,690Elevation
309 metres (1,014 feet)Open location code
4GR7HX6F+44OpenStreetMap ID
node 262721898OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
966134Wikidata ID
Q7144572
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Paterson” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Paterson”
- Asturian: “Paterson, Eastern Cape”
- Dutch: “Paterson”
- Estonian: “Paterson (LAV)”
- Estonian: “Paterson”
- French: “Paterson”
- Italian: “Paterson”
- Pedi: “Paterson”
- Romanian: “Patterson, Africa de Sud”
- Southern Sotho: “Paterson”
- Zulu: “IPaterson, IMpumalanga Kapa”
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