Knysna
Knysna, pearl of the scenic Garden Route, sits between George and Plettenberg Bay. Perennially green thanks to a Mediterranean Maritime climate with rain falling throughout the year, Knysna is mantled by indigenous forests extending into the Tsitsikamma National Park area.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Andresdewet, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town with 51,100 residents
- Description: town in the Western Cape, South Africa
- Also known as: “De Nysna” and “Melkhoutkraal”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Pledge Nature Reserve.
Pledge Nature Reserve
Nature reserve
Photo: Bellatjie, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Pledge Nature Reserve is a declared nature reserve located in the town of Knysna in the Garden Route district of the Western Cape province in southwestern South Africa.
Knysna
Latitude
-34.0357° or 34° 2′ 9″ southLongitude
23.0485° or 23° 2′ 55″ eastPopulation
51,100Elevation
9 metres (30 feet)United Nations Location Code
ZA KNYOpen location code
4GQ5X27X+P9OpenStreetMap ID
node 1490089707OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Knysna” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Knysna”
- Arabic: “كنيسنا”
- Armenian: “Նայսնե”
- Asturian: “Knysna”
- Cebuano: “Knysna (kapital sa munisipyo)”
- Cebuano: “Knysna”
- Chinese: “克尼斯納”
- Chinese: “克尼斯纳”
- Danish: “Knysna”
- Dutch: “Knysna”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كنيسنا”
- Esperanto: “Knajsno”
- Esperanto: “Knysna”
- Estonian: “Knysna”
- French: “Knysna”
- German: “Knysna”
- Hebrew: “נייסנה”
- Italian: “Knysna”
- Japanese: “ナイズナ”
- Malagasy: “Knysna”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Knysna”
- Norwegian: “Knysna”
- Pedi: “Knysna”
- Polish: “Knysna”
- Portuguese: “Knysna”
- Romanian: “Knysna”
- Russian: “Найсна”
- Russian: “Найсне”
- Silesian: “Knysna”
- Spanish: “Knysna”
- Swahili: “Knysna”
- Swedish: “Knysna”
- Ukrainian: “Книсна”
- Venda: “Knysna”
- Zulu: “IKnysna”
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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 “Knysna”. Photo: Andresdewet, CC BY-SA 3.0.