False Bay
False Bay is located on the eastern side of the Cape Peninsula of South Africa. The water in the bay is much warmer than the Atlantic Seaboard, partly being fed by the subtropical Agulhas current, making it popular for swimming.
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False Bay
- Type: Bay
- Description: bay of the Atlantic Ocean adjacent to Cape Town, South Africa; so called because sailors confused Cape Point and Cape Hangklip
- Also known as: “Bahia Falsa”, “Baía falsa”, “Falsche Baai”, “法尔斯湾”, “法爾斯灣”, “錯灣”, “錯誤灣”, “错湾”, and “错误湾”
- Location: Cape Peninsula, Western Cape, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude of center
-34.2108° or 34° 12′ 39″ south
Longitude of center
18.6409° or 18° 38′ 27″ east
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=bay
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Urdu—“False Bay” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Valsbaai”
- Arabic: “خليج فولس”
- Bengali: “ফলস উপসাগর”
- Catalan: “False Bay”
- Cebuano: “False Bay”
- Chinese: “福尔斯湾”
- Chinese: “福爾斯灣”
- Czech: “False Bay”
- Danish: “False Bay”
- Dutch: “Valsbaai”
- Esperanto: “Falsa Golfo”
- French: “baie False”
- French: “Baie False”
- Galician: “Baía Falsa”
- German: “False Bay”
- Hausa: “False Bay”
- Hebrew: “מפרץ פולס”
- Indonesian: “Valsbaai”
- Italian: “Falsa Baia”
- Japanese: “フォールス湾”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “False Bay”
- Polish: “False Bay”
- Portuguese: “Baía Falsa”
- Slovenian: “False Bay”
- Spanish: “Bahía Falsa”
- Swedish: “False Bay”
- Urdu: “فالس بے”
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