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Joe Gqabi District Municipality
Maletswai Local Municipality

Jamestown

Jamestown, officially James Calata, is a town on the N6 national road 58 km south of Aliwal North and 105 km north of in the of the , .
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  • Type: Town with 5,590 residents
  • Description: human settlement in South Africa
  • Also known as: “James Calata” and “Jamestown, Eastern Cape”
  • Neighbors:

Jamestown

Latitude
-31.12139° or 31° 7′ 17″ south
Longitude
26.80722° or 26° 48′ 26″ east
Population
5,590
Elevation
1,611 metres (5,285 feet)
Open location code
4GW8VRH4+CV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 262720682
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
994060
Wiki­data ID
Q3642608
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Venda—“Jamestown” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Jamestown, Oos-Kaap”
  • Afrikaans: “Jamestown”
  • Asturian: “Jamestown, Eastern Cape”
  • Chinese: “詹姆斯敦”
  • Dutch: “Jamestown”
  • Estonian: “Jamestown (Ida-Kapimaa)”
  • Estonian: “Jamestown”
  • French: “Jamestown, Cap-Oriental”
  • French: “Jamestown”
  • Pedi: “Jamestown, Kapa Bohlabela”
  • Pedi: “Jamestown”
  • Romanian: “Jamestown, Eastern Cape”
  • Southern Sotho: “Jamestown, Kapa Botjhabela”
  • Tswana: “Jamestown, Kapa Botlhaba”
  • Urdu: “جمستوؤں، ایسٹرن کیپ”
  • Urdu: “جیمز ٹاون، مشرقی کیپ”
  • Venda: “Jamestown, Kapa Vhubvaḓuvha”
  • Venda: “Jamestown”

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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 “Jamestown”. Photo: Derek J Moore, CC BY 4.0.