Mvezo
Mvezo is a small village on the banks of the Mbashe River, not far from Mthatha in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. The village is mainly known as being the birthplace of Nelson Mandela, a former president of South Africa, whose family serves as its chiefly dynasty.
Mvezo
- Type: Village with 810 residents
- Description: village in the Eastern Cape, South Africa
- Category: locality
- Location: King Sabata Dalindyebo Local Municipality, OR Tambo District Municipality, Eastern Cape, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-31.96126° or 31° 57′ 41″ south
Longitude
28.49144° or 28° 29′ 29″ east
Population
810
Elevation
572 metres (1,877 feet)
Open location code
4GWC2FQR+FH
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Mvezo” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Mvezo”
- Arabic: “مفيزو”
- Armenian: “Մֆեզո”
- Azerbaijani: “Mfezo”
- Basque: “Mvezo”
- Belarusian: “Мвэза”
- Belarusian: “Мфеза”
- Bengali: “মভেজো”
- Catalan: “Mvezo”
- Chinese: “姆維佐”
- Chinese: “姆维佐”
- Chinese: “姆韦佐”
- Czech: “Mvezo”
- Danish: “Mvezo”
- Dutch: “Mvezo”
- Esperanto: “Mvezo”
- Estonian: “Mvezo”
- Finnish: “Mvezo”
- French: “Hanginabanemano”
- French: “Mvezo”
- Galician: “Mvezo”
- German: “Mvezo”
- Greek: “Μβέζο”
- Hausa: “Mvezo”
- Hebrew: “מבזו”
- Hindi: “म्वेजो”
- Hindi: “म्वेज़ो”
- Hungarian: “Mvezo”
- Indonesian: “Mvezo”
- Irish: “Mvezo”
- Italian: “Mvezo”
- Kashmiri: “میوزو”
- Lithuanian: “Mvezas”
- Malayalam: “മ്വേസ്സോ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mvezo”
- Norwegian: “Mvezo”
- Papiamento: “Mvezo”
- Pedi: “Mvezo”
- Polish: “Mvezo”
- Portuguese: “Mvezo”
- Romanian: “Mvezo”
- Russian: “Мфезо”
- Scots: “Mvezo”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Mvezo”
- Silesian: “Mvezo”
- Slovak: “Mvezo”
- Slovenian: “Mvezo”
- Spanish: “Mvezo”
- Swati: “Ema-Mvezo”
- Swedish: “Mvezo”
- Tsonga: “Muganga wa Mvezo”
- Turkish: “Mvezo”
- Ukrainian: “Мвезо”
- Urdu: “ایمویزو”
- Western Armenian: “Մվեզօ”
- Yoruba: “Mvezo”
- Zulu: “Mvezo”
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