Bhisho
Bhisho, formerly Bisho, is the capital of the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. The Office of the Premier, Provincial Legislature and many other government departments are headquartered in the town.
- Type: Town with 137,000 residents
- Description: town in the Eastern Cape, South Africa
- Also known as: “Bišas”, “Biy”, and “Bubalopolis”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Bhisho Provincial Hospital and King William’s Town Nature Reserve.
King William’s Town Nature Reserve
Nature reserve
The King William's Town Nature Reserve is a protected… King William’s Town Nature Reserve is situated 3½ km southwest of Bhisho.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include King William’s Town and Breidbach.
King William’s Town
Qonce is a town of 35,000 people in the Eastern Cape of South Africa.Breidbach
Village
Breidbach is a neighborhood in King William's Town… Breidbach is situated 4½ km south of Bhisho.
Bhisho
- Category: locality
- Location: Buffalo City, Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality, Eastern Cape, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-32.8494° or 32° 50′ 58″ south
Longitude
27.4464° or 27° 26′ 47″ east
Population
137,000
Elevation
535 metres (1,755 feet)
IATA airport code
BIY
UN/LOCODE
ZA BIY
Open location code
4GV95C2W+6H
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Bhisho” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Bhisho”
- Afrikaans: “Bisho”
- Amharic: “ቢሾ”
- Arabic: “بيشو”
- Armenian: “Բիշո”
- Asturian: “Bhisho”
- Azerbaijani: “Bhisho”
- Basque: “Bhisho”
- Belarusian: “Бішо”
- Bengali: “ভিশো”
- Bulgarian: “Бишо”
- Catalan: “Bhisho”
- Catalan: “Bisho”
- Cebuano: “Bhisho”
- Chinese: “比绍”
- Chinese: “畢斯荷”
- Cornish: “Bhisho”
- Croatian: “Bhisho”
- Czech: “Bhisho”
- Danish: “Bhisho”
- Danish: “Bisho”
- Dutch: “Bhisho”
- Dutch: “Bisho”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بيشو”
- Esperanto: “Bhisho”
- Esperanto: “Bisho”
- Estonian: “Bhisho”
- Finnish: “Bhisho”
- French: “Bhisho”
- French: “Bisho”
- German: “Bhisho”
- German: “Bisho”
- Hausa: “Bhisho”
- Hebrew: “בישו”
- Hindi: “बिशो”
- Hindi: “भीशो”
- Hungarian: “Bhisho”
- Igbo: “Bhisho”
- Indonesian: “Bhisho”
- Italian: “Bhisho”
- Japanese: “ビショ”
- Javanese: “Bhisho”
- Kazakh: “Бишо”
- Kirghiz: “Бишо”
- Korean: “비쇼”
- Latin: “Bhisho”
- Latvian: “Bišo”
- Lithuanian: “Bišo”
- Macedonian: “Бишо (град)”
- Macedonian: “Бишо”
- Malagasy: “Bhisho”
- Malay: “Bhisho”
- Marathi: “भिशो”
- Northern Frisian: “Bhisho”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bhisho”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bhisho”
- Norwegian: “Bhisho”
- Oromo: “Bhisho”
- Panjabi: “ਭੀਸ਼ੋ”
- Pedi: “Bhisho”
- Persian: “بیشو”
- Polish: “Bhisho”
- Polish: “Bisho”
- Portuguese: “Bhisho”
- Portuguese: “Bisho”
- Pushto: “بيشو”
- Romanian: “Bhisho”
- Russian: “Бишо”
- Serbian: “Bišo”
- Serbian: “Бишо”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Bhisho”
- Slovenian: “Bhisho”
- Somali: “Bhisho”
- South Azerbaijani: “بیشو”
- Southern Sotho: “Bhisho”
- Spanish: “Bhisho”
- Spanish: “Bisho”
- Swahili: “Bhisho”
- Swedish: “Bhisho”
- Tajik: “Бишо”
- Tatar: “Бишо”
- Tswana: “Bhisho”
- Turkish: “Bhisho”
- Ukrainian: “Бішо”
- Urdu: “بھیشو”
- Uzbek: “Bhisho”
- Venda: “Bhisho”
- Vietnamese: “Bhisho”
- Western Panjabi: “بھشو”
- Xhosa: “IBhisho”
- Yoruba: “Bhisho”
- Yue Chinese: “比紹”
- Zulu: “Bhisho”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Brownlee Congregational Church and Bhisho Police Station.
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