Eshowe

Eshowe is the oldest town of British settlement in in and is a good base to see the Zulu culture. The town is enmeshed with the Dlinza forest, one of five remaining coastal scarp forests in Kwazulu-Natal.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Eshowe High School.

School
is a public co-educational high school located in Eshowe, , .

Eshowe

Latitude
-28.8892° or 28° 53′ 21″ south
Longitude
31.4704° or 31° 28′ 14″ east
Population
17,700
Elevation
539 metres (1,768 feet)
United Nations Location Code
ZA EHW
Open location code
5G3H4F6C+85
Open­Street­Map ID
node 60034814
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
1005040
Wiki­data ID
Q1367652
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Eshowe” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: Eshowe
  • Asturian: Eshowe
  • Cebuano: Eshowe
  • Chinese: 埃紹韋
  • Chinese: 艾秀維
  • Chinese: 艾秀维
  • Danish: Eshowe
  • Dutch: Eshowe
  • Estonian: Eshowe
  • French: Eshowe
  • German: Eshowe
  • Hebrew: אשאו
  • Italian: Eshowe
  • Japanese: エショウェ
  • Malagasy: Eshowe
  • Pedi: Eshowe
  • Polish: Eshowe
  • Romanian: Eshowe
  • Russian: Эшове
  • Urdu: ایشوے
  • Waray (Philippines): Eshowe
  • Wu Chinese: 埃绍韦
  • Zulu: Eshowe

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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 Wikivoyage page “Eshowe”. Photo: Bernard DUPONT, CC BY-SA 2.0.