Hout Bay
Hout Bay appears to be a little harbour village but is actually a suburb of the South African metropole Cape Town.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Harvey Barrison, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lichtenstein Castle and Hout Bay Museum.
Lichtenstein Castle
Lichtenstein Castle is a mock castle in Hout Bay, Western Cape, South Africa, built on the Karbonkelberg and modelled after Lichtenstein Castle in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.Hout Bay Museum
Museum
Photo: Nkansahrexford, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Hout Bay Museum is a province-aided museum at 4 Andrews Road in Hout Bay near Cape Town, South Africa. Opened on 5 April 1979, the museum has displays on the history of the Hout Bay valley and its people, focusing on forestry, mining, and the fishing industry up to modern times.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Llandudno.
Llandudno
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Llandudno is a residential suburb of Cape Town on the Atlantic Seaboard of the Western Cape. There are no shops or commercial activities, but the town has some of the most expensive residential property in South Africa.
Hout Bay
- Type: Town with 17,900 residents
- Description: town in South Africa
- Categories: neighborhood and locality
- Location: City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-34.0431° or 34° 2′ 35″ southLongitude
18.3556° or 18° 21′ 20″ eastPopulation
17,900Elevation
36 metres (118 feet)United Nations Location Code
ZA ZCFOpen location code
4FQWX944+Q7OpenStreetMap ID
node 262720634OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Hout Bay” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Houtbaai”
- Chinese: “豪特湾”
- Chinese: “豪特湾共和国”
- Chinese: “豪特灣”
- Chinese: “豪特灣共和國”
- Chinese: “霍特湾”
- Dutch: “Hout Bay”
- Dutch: “Houtbaai”
- French: “Hout Bay”
- German: “Hout Bay”
- Hebrew: “מפרץ הוט”
- Italian: “Hout Bay”
- Japanese: “ホウト湾”
- Pedi: “Hout Bay”
- Romanian: “Houtbaai”
- Turkish: “Hout Bay”
- Xhosa: “Hout Bay”
- Zulu: “Hout Bay”
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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 “Hout Bay”. Photo: Harvey Barrison, CC BY-SA 2.0.