Grahamstown
Grahamstown, also known as Makhanda, is a town of 140,000 people in the Cacadu District of the Eastern Cape. This charming and picturesque small city is well worth a visit.
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Photo: public domain, Public domain.- Type: City with 67,300 residents
- Description: city in the Eastern Cape, South Africa
- Also known as: “Grahamstown, Kapa Vhubvaḓuvha”, “Makhanda”, “Makhanda, South Africa”, “グレアムズタウン”, “グレイアムズタウン”, and “格雷厄姆斯敦”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Makana Botanical Gardens and Settlers Hospital.
Grahamstown
- Categories: town and locality
- Location: Makana Local Municipality, Sarah Baartman District Municipality, Sunshine Coast, Eastern Cape, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-33.3071° or 33° 18′ 26″ south
Longitude
26.5263° or 26° 31′ 35″ east
Population
67,300
Elevation
551 metres (1,808 feet)
UN/LOCODE
ZA GRH
Open location code
4GR8MGVG+5G
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Grahamstown” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Grahamstad”
- Afrikaans: “Makhanda”
- Arabic: “غراهامستاون”
- Armenian: “Գրեհամսթաուն”
- Asturian: “Makhanda”
- Bengali: “গ্রাহামসটাউন”
- Catalan: “Grahamstown”
- Cebuano: “Grahamstown (kapital sa munisipyo)”
- Cebuano: “Grahamstown”
- Chinese: “格拉罕鎮”
- Chinese: “馬坎達”
- Chinese: “马卡汉达”
- Chinese: “马坎达”
- Czech: “Grahamstown”
- Danish: “Makhanda”
- Dutch: “Grahamstad”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جراهامستاون”
- Esperanto: “Grahamstown”
- Estonian: “Grahamstown”
- Finnish: “Grahamstown”
- French: “Grahamstown”
- French: “Makhanda”
- German: “Grahamstown”
- German: “Makhanda”
- Greek: “Γκραχαμστάουν”
- Gujarati: “ગ્રેહામસ્ટાઉન”
- Hakka Chinese: “Grahamstown”
- Hebrew: “גרהמסטאון”
- Hindi: “ग्राहमस्टाउन”
- Indonesian: “Grahamstown”
- Italian: “Makhanda”
- Japanese: “グラハムズタウン”
- Japanese: “マカンダ”
- Kannada: “ಗ್ರಾಹಂಸ್ ಟೊವ್ನ್”
- Korean: “그레이엄스타운”
- Latvian: “Greiemstauna”
- Lithuanian: “Grehemtounas”
- Malagasy: “Grahamstown”
- Malay: “Grahamstown”
- Marathi: “ग्रॅहॅमस्टाउन”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Grahamstown”
- Norwegian: “Grahamstown”
- Pedi: “Grahamstown”
- Polish: “Grahamstown”
- Polish: “Makhanda”
- Portuguese: “Grahamstown”
- Romanian: “Grahamstad”
- Russian: “Грейамстаун”
- Russian: “Грэхэмстаун”
- Serbian: “Грејамстаун”
- Serbian: “Маканда”
- Sinhala: “ග්රැහැම්ස්ටවුන්”
- Southern Sotho: “Grahamstown”
- Spanish: “Makhanda”
- Swahili: “Grahamstown”
- Swati: “EMakhanda,”
- Swedish: “Makhanda”
- Tamil: “கிரஹாம்ஸ்நகரம்”
- Telugu: “గ్రాహమ్స్ పట్టణం”
- Thai: “เกรแฮมส์ทาวน์”
- Tswana: “Grahamstown”
- Turkish: “Grahamstown”
- Ukrainian: “Гремстаун”
- Urdu: “گراہمز ٹاؤن”
- Urdu: “مکھنڈا، جنوبی افریقہ”
- Venda: “Grahamstown”
- Vietnamese: “Grahamstown”
- Xhosa: “IRhini”
- Yue Chinese: “嘉咸城”
- Yue Chinese: “馬坎達”
- Zulu: “Makhanda, Eastern Cape”
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