Moorreesburg
Moorreesburg is a rural town situated about 90 kilometres north of Cape Town, in the Western Cape province of South Africa. It was laid out in 1879 on the farm Hooikraal, was administered by a village management board from 1882 and attained municipal status in 1909.
Moorreesburg
- Type: Town with 15,400 residents
- Description: town in the Western Cape, South Africa
- Category: locality
- Location: Swartland, West Coast, Western Cape, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-33.1553° or 33° 9′ 19″ south
Longitude
18.6564° or 18° 39′ 23″ east
Population
15,400
Elevation
164 metres (538 feet)
United Nations Location Code
ZA MOR
Open location code
4FRWRMV4+VH
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Moorreesburg” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Moorreesburg”
- Armenian: “Մուրրիսբուրգ”
- Asturian: “Moorreesburg”
- Cebuano: “Moorreesburg (kapital sa distrito)”
- Cebuano: “Moorreesburg”
- Chinese: “穆里斯堡”
- Dutch: “Moorreesburg”
- Estonian: “Moorreesburg”
- French: “Moorreesburg”
- German: “Moorreesburg”
- Indonesian: “Moorreesburg”
- Italian: “Moorreesburg”
- Pedi: “Moorreesburg”
- Romanian: “Moorreesburg”
- Russian: “Муррисбург”
- Slovenian: “Moorreesburg”
- Zulu: “IMoorreesburg”
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