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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: public domain, Public domain.
Photo: public domain, Public domain.
- Type: City with 67,300 residents
- Description: city in the Eastern Cape, South Africa
- Also known as: “Makhanda” and “Makhanda, South Africa”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Makana Botanical Gardens and Settlers Hospital.
Makana Botanical Gardens
Park
Photo: Moonblue, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Makana Botanical Gardens is a botanical garden in South Africa operated by Rhodes University, located in Grahamstown. The garden is on Gunfire Hill and is surrounded by the 1820 Settlers National Monument, Fort Selwyn, the Albany Museum, and Grey Dam Lake.
Settlers Hospital
Hospital
Settlers Hospital is a Provincial government funded hospital for the Makana Local Municipality area in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape in South Africa. The hospital departments include Emergency department, Paediatric ward, Maternity ward, Gynaecology Services, Out…
Grahamstown
- Categories: town and locality
- Location: Makana Local Municipality, Sarah Baartman District Municipality, Sunshine Coast, Eastern Cape, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-33.3071° or 33° 18′ 25″ southLongitude
26.5273° or 26° 31′ 38″ eastPopulation
67,300Elevation
551 metres (1,808 feet)United Nations Location Code
ZA GRHOpen location code
4GR8MGVG+5WOpenStreetMap ID
node 30229877OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Grahamstown” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Grahamstad”
- Arabic: “غراهامستاون”
- Armenian: “Գրեհամսթաուն”
- Asturian: “Makhanda”
- Bengali: “গ্রাহামসটাউন”
- Catalan: “Grahamstown”
- Cebuano: “Grahamstown (kapital sa munisipyo)”
- Cebuano: “Grahamstown”
- Chinese: “格拉罕鎮”
- Chinese: “格雷厄姆斯敦”
- Chinese: “馬坎達”
- Chinese: “马卡汉达”
- Chinese: “马坎达”
- Czech: “Grahamstown”
- Czech: “Makhanda”
- Danish: “Grahamstown”
- Danish: “Makhanda”
- Dutch: “Grahamstad”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جراهامستاون”
- Esperanto: “Grahamstown”
- Estonian: “Grahamstown”
- Finnish: “Grahamstown”
- French: “Grahamstown”
- German: “Grahamstown”
- German: “Makhanda”
- Greek: “Γκραχαμστάουν”
- Gujarati: “ગ્રેહામસ્ટાઉન”
- Hakka Chinese: “Grahamstown”
- Hebrew: “גרהמסטאון”
- Hindi: “ग्राहमस्टाउन”
- Indonesian: “Grahamstown”
- Italian: “Grahamstown”
- Italian: “Makhanda”
- Japanese: “グラハムズタウン”
- Japanese: “グレアムズタウン”
- Japanese: “グレイアムズタウン”
- 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”
- Sinhala: “ග්රැහැම්ස්ටවුන්”
- Southern Sotho: “Grahamstown”
- Spanish: “Grahamstown”
- Spanish: “Makhanda”
- Swahili: “Grahamstown”
- Swati: “EMakhanda,”
- Swedish: “Grahamstown”
- Swedish: “Makhanda”
- Tamil: “கிரஹாம்ஸ்நகரம்”
- Telugu: “గ్రాహమ్స్ పట్టణం”
- Thai: “เกรแฮมส์ทาวน์”
- Tswana: “Grahamstown”
- Turkish: “Grahamstown”
- Ukrainian: “Гремстаун”
- Urdu: “گراہمز ٹاؤن”
- Urdu: “مکھنڈا، جنوبی افریقہ”
- Venda: “Grahamstown, Kapa Vhubvaḓuvha”
- Venda: “Grahamstown”
- Vietnamese: “Grahamstown”
- Xhosa: “IRhini”
- Yue Chinese: “嘉咸城”
- Zulu: “Makhanda, Eastern Cape”
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