Ceres
Ceres is the administrative centre and largest town of the Witzenberg Local Municipality in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. Ceres serves as a regional centre for the surrounding towns of Wolseley, Tulbagh, Op-die-Berg and Prince Alfred Hamlet.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 41,600 residents
- Description: town in the Western Cape, South Africa
- Also known as: “Ceres, South Africa”
- Postal code: 6835
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Prince Alfred Hamlet.
Prince Alfred Hamlet
Village
Photo: warrenski, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Prince Alfred Hamlet is a small town in the Western Cape province of South Africa. It was founded by Johannes Cornelis Goosen, who was born in the Klein Drakenstein and came to the Warm Bokkeveld as a young farmer. Prince Alfred Hamlet is situated 9 km north of Ceres.
Ceres
Latitude
-33.36833° or 33° 22′ 6″ southLongitude
19.30917° or 19° 18′ 33″ eastPopulation
41,600Elevation
457 metres (1,499 feet)United Nations Location Code
ZA CRSOpen location code
4FRXJ8J5+MMOpenStreetMap ID
node 240372382OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Ceres” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Ceres”
- Asturian: “Ceres”
- Cebuano: “Ceres”
- Chinese: “塞雷斯”
- Dutch: “Ceres”
- Estonian: “Ceres (LAV)”
- Estonian: “Ceres”
- French: “Ceres”
- German: “Ceres”
- Indonesian: “Ceres, Western Cape”
- Italian: “Ceres (Capo Occidentale)”
- Italian: “Ceres (Sudafrica)”
- Italian: “Ceres”
- Macedonian: “Сирес”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ceres i Sør-Afrika”
- Norwegian: “Ceres”
- Pedi: “Ceres”
- Polish: “Ceres”
- Romanian: “Ceres, Africa de Sud”
- Romanian: “Ceres”
- Russian: “Серис”
- Russian: “Сирес”
- Russian: “Церера”
- Welsh: “Ceres”
- Zulu: “ICeres, INtshonalanga Kapa”
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