Fort Beaufort

Fort Beaufort, officially renamed KwaMaqoma in March 2023, is a town in the Amatole District of South Africa's Eastern Cape Province, and had a population of 25,668 in 2011.
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  • Town with 58,400 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 444 metres (1,457 feet)
  • …is also known as “KwaMaqoma”
  • Description: town in the Eastern Cape, South Africa

Places of Interest

Highlights include Tower Psychiatric Hospital and Fort Beaufort Martello Tower.

Hospital
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Fort
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Fort Beaufort

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Latitude
-32.7783° or 32° 46′ 42″ south
Longitude
26.6306° or 26° 37′ 50″ east
UN/LOCODE
ZA FBE
Open location code
4GV86JCJ+M6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 146350696
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
1003953
Wiki­data ID
Q473216

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Fort Beaufort” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Fort Beaufort”
  • Asturian: “Fort Beaufort”
  • Catalan: “Fort Beaufort”
  • Cebuano: “Fort Beaufort”
  • Chinese: “博福特港”
  • Czech: “Fort Beaufort”
  • Dutch: “Fort Beaufort”
  • Esperanto: “Fort Beaufort”
  • Estonian: “Fort Beaufort”
  • Finnish: “Fort Beaufort”
  • French: “Fort Beaufort”
  • German: “Fort Beaufort”
  • German: “KwaMaqoma”
  • Indonesian: “Fort Beaufort”
  • Italian: “Fort Beaufort”
  • Malagasy: “Fort Beaufort”
  • Malayalam: “ഫോർട്ട് ബ്യൂഫോർട്ട്”
  • Pedi: “Fort Beaufort”
  • Polish: “Fort Beaufort”
  • Romanian: “Fort Beaufort”
  • Russian: “Форт-Бофорт”
  • Slovak: “Fort Beaufort”
  • Southern Sotho: “Fort Beaufort”
  • Spanish: “Fort Beaufort”
  • Swedish: “Fort Beaufort”
  • Tumbuka: “Fort Beaufort, Eastern Cape”
  • Ukrainian: “Форт-Бофорт”
  • Urdu: “فورٹ بیوفورٹ”
  • Xhosa: “Inqaba yaseBeaufort”
  • Zulu: “Fort Beaufort”

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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Magistrate’s Court and KwaMaqoma Town Hall.

Eastern Cape: Highlights

Notable places include Port Elizabeth and East London.

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