Elephant Coast
Elephant Coast, also known as Maputaland, is the area of the Umkhanyakude District Municipality in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa.Essential Destinations
Top destinations include ISimangaliso Wetland Park and Hluhluwe.
ISimangaliso Wetland Park
The iSimangaliso Wetland Park, previously known as Greater St.
Hluhluwe
Hluhluwe is a small town on the Elephant Coast in northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
St Lucia
The town of St Lucia is on the southern tip of iSimangaliso Wetland Park.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Sodwana Bay and Kosi Bay Nature Reserve.
Sodwana Bay
Sodwana Bay is in the KwaZulu Natal Province of South Africa.
Kosi Bay Nature Reserve
Kosi Bay Nature Reserve is on the Elephant Coast of KwaZulu-Natal.
Elephant Coast
- District municipality with 689,000 residents
- …is also known as “Umkhanyakude District Municipality”
- Description: district municipality in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
- Location
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Latitude of center
-28.3761° or 28° 22′ 34″ south
Longitude of center
32.4147° or 32° 24′ 53″ east
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Elephant Coast” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Umkhanyakude-distriksmunisipaliteit”
- Armenian: “Ումխանյակուդե”
- Cebuano: “UMkhanyakude District Municipality”
- Chinese: “乌姆卡尼亚库德区自治市”
- Chinese: “大象海岸”
- Chinese: “烏姆克哈恩亞庫德區自治市”
- Chinese: “烏姆卡尼亞庫德區自治市”
- Dutch: “Umkhanyakude”
- Dutch: “UMkhanyakude”
- French: “Umkhanyakude”
- German: “Elephant Coast”
- German: “UMkhanyakude”
- Indonesian: “Distrik uMkhanyakude”
- Italian: “Costa degli Elefanti”
- Italian: “Municipalità distrettuale di Umkhanyakude”
- Japanese: “ウムカニャクデ郡”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Umkhanyakude Khu-he̍k Chū-tī-thé”
- Novial: “Umkanyakude”
- Pedi: “Mmasepala Setereke tša Umkhanyakude”
- Polish: “Umkhanyakude”
- Russian: “Умкханьякуде”
- Ukrainian: “Умкханьякуде”
- Zulu: “UMasipala wesiFunda UMkhanyakude”
- Zulu: “Umkhanyakude”
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