Montagu
Montagu is the gateway to the Little Karoo on Route 62 between Cape Town and the Garden Route with many fine examples of Cape-Dutch architecture. This friendly country town features silent mountain sides, clear night skies, tasty food and pretty fruit and flowers.
Photo: Zaian, Public domain.
- Type: Town with 15,200 residents
- Description: town in the Western Cape, South Africa
- Also known as: “Montagu, South Africa”
Montagu
Latitude
-33.787° or 33° 47′ 13″ south
Longitude
20.1178° or 20° 7′ 4″ east
Population
15,200
Elevation
228 metres (748 feet)
Inception
1851
United Nations Location Code
ZA MON
Open location code
4GR26479+64
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Montagu” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Montagu”
- Armenian: “Մոնտեգյու”
- Asturian: “Montagu”
- Chinese: “蒙塔古”
- Dutch: “Montagu”
- Estonian: “Montagu”
- French: “Montagu”
- German: “Montagu”
- Hausa: “Montagu, Afirka ta Kudu”
- Italian: “Montagu (Sudafrica)”
- Italian: “Montagu”
- Japanese: “モンタギュー”
- Malagasy: “Montagu”
- Pedi: “Montagu”
- Polish: “Montagu”
- Romanian: “Montagu, Western Cape”
- Russian: “Монтагью”
- Russian: “Монтегю”
- Spanish: “Montagu”
- Urdu: “مونٹیگو، جنوبی افریقہ”
- Zulu: “IMontagu, INtshonalanga Kapa”
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