George
George is in the Western Cape Province in South Africa. It is the main gateway to the beautiful Garden Route.
- Type: City with 189,000 residents
- Description: town in the Western Cape, South Africa
- Also known as: “George, Cabo Ocidental”, “George, South Africa”, and “Джордж (ЮАР)”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Outeniqua Transport Museum and York High School.
Outeniqua Transport Museum
Museum
York High School
School
York High School is a co-educational English Medium High School for boarders and dayscholars in George, South Africa. For many years the Southern Cape was served by dual-medium schools in George, Mossel Bay, Oudtshoorn and Knysna.
George High School
School
George High School, also known as George Secondary School is an Afrikaans-medium school in George, a town in the Western Cape province of South Africa.
George
- Categories: town, big city, and locality
- Location: George Local Municipality, Garden Route District Municipality, Garden Route, Western Cape, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-33.9597° or 33° 57′ 35″ south
Longitude
22.4587° or 22° 27′ 31″ east
Population
189,000
Elevation
232 metres (761 feet)
IATA airport code
GRJ
United Nations Location Code
ZA GRJ
Open location code
4GR42FR5+4F
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“George” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “George”
- Arabic: “جورج”
- Armenian: “Ջորջ”
- Asturian: “George”
- Catalan: “George”
- Cebuano: “George”
- Chinese: “乔治”
- Chinese: “喬治 (西開普省)”
- Chinese: “喬治”
- Danish: “George”
- Dutch: “George”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جورج”
- Esperanto: “George”
- Estonian: “George (LAV)”
- Estonian: “George”
- Finnish: “George”
- French: “George”
- German: “George”
- Hebrew: “ג’ורג‘”
- Hebrew: “ג’ורג’”
- Hungarian: “George”
- Irish: “George”
- Italian: “George”
- Japanese: “ジョージ”
- Korean: “조지”
- Malayalam: “ജോർജ്”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “George”
- Norwegian: “George”
- Pedi: “George, Kapa Bodikela”
- Pedi: “George”
- Polish: “George”
- Portuguese: “George”
- Romanian: “George, Wes-Kaap”
- Romanian: “George”
- Russian: “Джордж”
- Shona: “George, Western Cape”
- Spanish: “George”
- Swahili: “George, Rasi ya Magharibi”
- Swedish: “George, Västra Kapprovinsen”
- Swedish: “George”
- Tamil: “ஜார்ஜ் டவுன், தென்னாப்பிரிக்கா”
- Tamil: “ஜார்ஜ் டவுன்”
- Ukrainian: “Джордж”
- Urdu: “جارج، جنوبی افریقہ”
- Venetian: “George”
- Welsh: “George”
- Zulu: “IGeorge, INtshonalanga Kapa”
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