East London

East London, officially KuGompo City since February 2026, is a city on the southeastern coast of , in the , Province.
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  • Type: City with 267,000 residents
  • Description: city in the Eastern Cape, South Africa
  • Also known as: “Buffalo City”, “East London, South Africa”, and “KuGompo City”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Buffalo City Stadium and East London City Hall.

Stadium
Photo: Andre Carrotflower, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a multi-use in East London, . It is currently used mostly for Rugby Union matches and is the home stadium of Border Bulldogs.

Town hall
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is a town hall.

Railway station
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is the central railway station in the city of East London in the province of . It is the terminus for Shosholoza Meyl inter-city trains to and , and of a Metrorail commuter service to and Berlin.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Quigney.

Suburb
is a suburb of East London in . It got its name from the "Gwygney River" according to the earliest maps of East London from September 1847 by William Jervois. The municipality started to sell plots "east of the River" after 1883.

East London

Latitude
-33.0192° or 33° 1′ 9″ south
Longitude
27.8999° or 27° 53′ 60″ east
Population
267,000
Elevation
48 metres (157 feet)
IATA airport code
ELS
United Nations Location Code
ZA ELS
Open location code
4GR9XVJX+8W
Open­Street­Map ID
node 30211383
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1006984
Wiki­data ID
Q209537
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“East London” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “East London”
  • Afrikaans: “KuGompo City”
  • Afrikaans: “Oos-Londen”
  • Afrikaans: “Oos-London”
  • Arabic: “إيست لندن”
  • Armenian: “Իստ-Լոնդոն”
  • Asturian: “East London”
  • Belarusian: “Іст-Лондан”
  • Bengali: “ইস্ট লন্ডন”
  • Bulgarian: “Източен Лондон”
  • Catalan: “East London”
  • Cebuano: “East London”
  • Chinese: “东伦敦”
  • Chinese: “東倫敦”
  • Croatian: “East London”
  • Czech: “East London”
  • Danish: “East London”
  • Danish: “KuGompo City”
  • Dutch: “East London”
  • Dutch: “KuGompo City”
  • Dutch: “Oos-Londen”
  • Dutch: “Oost-Londen”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ايست لندن”
  • Esperanto: “East London”
  • Esperanto: “Orient-Londono”
  • Esperanto: “Orientlondono”
  • Estonian: “East London”
  • Finnish: “East London”
  • Finnish: “KuGompo City”
  • Finnish: “Oos-Londen”
  • French: “East London”
  • French: “KuGompo City”
  • Galician: “East London, Cabo Oriental”
  • Galician: “East London”
  • Georgian: “ისტ-ლონდონი”
  • German: “East London”
  • German: “KuGompo City”
  • German: “Oos-Londen”
  • Greek: “Ανατολικό Λονδίνο”
  • Gujarati: “ઇસ્ટ લંડન”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Tûng Lùn-tûn, Tûng Cape-sén”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Tûng Lùn-tûn”
  • Hebrew: “איסט לונדון”
  • Hebrew: “באפלו סיטי”
  • Hindi: “ईस्ट लन्दन”
  • Hindi: “पूर्वी लंदन, पूर्वी केप”
  • Hungarian: “East London”
  • Indonesian: “East London”
  • Italian: “East London”
  • Japanese: “イースト・ロンドン”
  • Japanese: “イーストロンドン”
  • Kannada: “ಪೂರ್ವ ಲಂಡನ್”
  • Korean: “이스트런던”
  • Latin: “Londinium Orientale”
  • Latvian: “Īstlondona”
  • Lithuanian: “Ist Londonas”
  • Lithuanian: “KuGompo City”
  • Lithuanian: “Yst Londonas”
  • Macedonian: “Источен Лондон”
  • Malay: “East London”
  • Marathi: “इस्ट लंडन”
  • Marathi: “ईस्ट लंडन, दक्षिण आफ्रिका”
  • Marathi: “ईस्ट लंडन”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “East London i Sør-Afrika”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “East London”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “East London”
  • Norwegian: “East London”
  • Pedi: “East London”
  • Persian: “لندن شرقی، کیپ شرقی”
  • Polish: “East London”
  • Polish: “KuGompo City”
  • Polish: “Oos-Londen”
  • Portuguese: “East London”
  • Romanian: “East London, South Africa”
  • Romanian: “East London”
  • Romanian: “KuGompo City”
  • Russian: “Ист-Лондон”
  • Serbian: “Istočni London”
  • Serbian: “Источни Лондон”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “East London, Eastern Cape”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Istočni London, Južna Afrika”
  • Shona: “East London”
  • Sinhala: “නැගෙනහිර ලන්ඩනය”
  • Slovak: “East London”
  • Slovenian: “East London”
  • South Azerbaijani: “لندن شرقی، کیپ شرقی”
  • Southern Sotho: “East London”
  • Spanish: “East London”
  • Swahili: “East London, Afrika Kusini”
  • Swahili: “East London”
  • Swedish: “East London, Sydafrika”
  • Swedish: “East London”
  • Swedish: “KuGompo City”
  • Sylheti: “ꠙꠥꠅꠞ ꠟꠘ꠆ꠒꠘ”
  • Tamil: “கிழக்கு லண்டன்”
  • Telugu: “ఈస్ట్ లండన్”
  • Thai: “อีสต์ลอนดอน”
  • Tswana: “East London”
  • Turkish: “East London, Güney Afrika Cumhuriyeti”
  • Turkish: “East London”
  • Ukrainian: “Іст-Лондон”
  • Urdu: “ایسٹ لندن، مشرقی کیپ”
  • Urdu: “ایسٹ لندن”
  • Vietnamese: “Đông London”
  • Volapük: “East London”
  • Waray (Philippines): “East London, Eastern Cape”
  • Waray (Philippines): “East London”
  • Western Panjabi: “ایسٹ لندن، مشرقی کیپ”
  • Western Panjabi: “ایسٹ لندن”
  • Wu Chinese: “东伦敦（南非）”
  • Wu Chinese: “东伦敦”
  • Xhosa: “EMonti”
  • Yue Chinese: “東倫敦”
  • Zulu: “East London, Eastern Cape”
  • “East London”
  • “KuGompo City”

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