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Parow

Parow is the suburb of the in the , South Africa and a Northern Suburb of the City of Cape Town Metropolitan Municipality founded by Johann Heinrich Ferdinand Parow who arrived in the locality in 1865.
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  • Type: Town with 80,000 residents
  • Description: suburb of Cape Town, South Africa
  • Also known as: “Parow, South Africa”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Tygerberg High School and Tygerberg Hospital.

School
Photo: Barry Ne, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Hoërskool Tygerberg is a public Afrikaans-English medium co-educational high school situated in Parow in the province of . It is a government-funded school, established in 1954.

Hospital
Photo: Dfmalan, CC BY 3.0.
is a tertiary public hospital located in Parow. The hospital was officially opened in 1976 and is the largest district general hospital in the Western Cape and the second largest hospital in South Africa, with the capacity for 1899 beds. is situated 3 km southeast of Parow.

School
is a public, co-educational high school in Goodwood near , Western Cape, South Africa.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Norwood and Goodwood.

Suburb
is a suburb of , in the province of . is situated 2½ km south of Parow.

Suburb
is a suburb of in the , and is situated in the region of the . It is 10 kilometres from and accessible from the N1, N7 and N2 highways. is situated 3½ km west of Parow.

Suburb
is a northern suburb of , , bordering the industrial area of and the formerly Cape Coloured neighborhood of Elsie's River as well as the GrandWest Casino. is situated 3½ km southwest of Parow.

Parow

Latitude
-33.9025° or 33° 54′ 9″ south
Longitude
18.58694° or 18° 35′ 13″ east
Population
80,000
Elevation
71 metres (233 feet)
United Nations Location Code
ZA PRW
Open location code
4FRW3HWP+XQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 262721892
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3363018
Wiki­data ID
Q985875
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Parow” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Parow”
  • Asturian: “Parow”
  • Cebuano: “Parow”
  • Dutch: “Parow”
  • Estonian: “Parow”
  • French: “Parow”
  • German: “Parow”
  • Japanese: “パロウ”
  • Pedi: “Parow, Cape Town”
  • Russian: “Паро”
  • Slovenian: “Parow”
  • Xhosa: “Parow, Cape Town”
  • Zulu: “Parow, Cape Town”

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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 “Parow”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.