Colchester
Colchester is a town in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. It forms part of the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality which governs Gqeberha and surrounding towns and suburbs.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 2,480 residents
- Description: human settlement in South Africa
- Also known as: “Colchester, Eastern Cape” and “Colchester, South Africa”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sundays River.
Sundays River
River
Photo: Amrum, CC BY-SA 2.5.
The !Khukaǁgamma or Sundays River is a river in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. It is said to be the fastest flowing river in the country. The Inqua Khoi people, who historically were the wealthiest group in Southern Africa, originally named this…
Colchester
- Categories: town and locality
- Location: Nelson Mandela Bay, Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality, Eastern Cape, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-33.69083° or 33° 41′ 27″ southLongitude
25.81944° or 25° 49′ 10″ eastPopulation
2,480Elevation
7 metres (23 feet)Open location code
4GR78R59+MQOpenStreetMap ID
node 262704718OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
8643436Wikidata ID
Q5142071
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Russian—“Colchester” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Colchester, Oos-Kaap”
- Asturian: “Colchester, Eastern Cape”
- Dutch: “Colchester, Eastern Cape”
- Korean: “콜체스터 (이스턴케이프주)”
- Korean: “콜체스터”
- Pedi: “Colchester, Kapa Bohlabela”
- Pedi: “Colchester”
- Russian: “Колчестер”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Sanddunes Community Hall and Sundune Guest House.
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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 “Colchester”. Photo: Jon Rawlinson, CC BY 2.0.