Kokstad
Kokstad is a town in the Harry Gwala District Municipality of the KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa. Kokstad is named after the Griqua chief Adam Kok III who settled here in 1863.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Michael Denne, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Kokstad and St Patrick’s College.
St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Kokstad
Church
Photo: M3tt, CC BY-SA 3.0.
St. Patrick's Cathedral, also known simply as Kokstad Cathedral, is a parish of the Roman Catholic Church in Kokstad, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa and the cathedral of the Diocese of Kokstad. The cathedral church is located at 107 Hope Street.
St Patrick’s College
School
St Patrick's College is a co-educational boarding school in Kokstad, founded in 1993 in the heart of East Griqualand, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. Born from the Holy Cross Convent; St Patrick’s College was started by a group of parents.
Kokstad
- Type: Town with 61,800 residents
- Description: place in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
- Category: locality
- Location: Greater Kokstad Local Municipality, Harry Gwala District Municipality, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-30.5475° or 30° 32′ 51″ southLongitude
29.4244° or 29° 25′ 28″ eastPopulation
61,800Elevation
1,316 metres (4,318 feet)United Nations Location Code
ZA KKDOpen location code
4GXFFC3F+2QOpenStreetMap ID
node 54354355OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Kokstad” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Kokstad”
- Arabic: “كوكستاد”
- Armenian: “Կոկստադ”
- Asturian: “Kokstad”
- Bulgarian: “Кокстад”
- Catalan: “Kokstad”
- Cebuano: “Kokstad”
- Chinese: “科克斯塔德”
- Dutch: “Kokstad”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كوكستاد”
- Estonian: “Kokstad”
- French: “Kokstad”
- German: “Kokstad”
- Italian: “Kokstad”
- Japanese: “コークスタート”
- Malagasy: “Kokstad”
- Pedi: “Kokstad”
- Polish: “Kokstad”
- Romanian: “Kokstad”
- Russian: “Кокстад”
- Spanish: “Kokstad”
- Turkish: “Kokstad”
- Urdu: “کوکسٹاد”
- Zulu: “IKokstad”
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Notable Places Nearby
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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 “Kokstad”. Photo: Michael Denne, CC BY-SA 2.0.