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.
- 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: Pledge Nature Reserve.
Knysna
Latitude
-34.0357° or 34° 2′ 9″ south
Longitude
23.0485° or 23° 2′ 55″ east
Population
51,100
Elevation
9 metres (30 feet)
UN/LOCODE
ZA KNY
Open location code
4GQ5X27X+P9
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Knysna” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Knysna”
- Arabic: “كنيسنا”
- Armenian: “Նայսնե”
- Asturian: “Knysna”
- Catalan: “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”
- 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”
- Urdu: “کنائیسنا”
- Venda: “Knysna”
- Zulu: “IKnysna”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Upper Central Town and Lower Central Town.
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Worth a closer look: George and Mossel Bay.
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