Mossel Bay
Mossel Bay is a harbour town of about 170,000 people on the Garden Route of South Africa. It is an important tourism and farming region of the Western Cape Province.
- Type: Town with 60,000 residents
- Description: town in the Western Cape, South Africa
- Also known as: “Aliwal South”, “Aliwal-Suid”, “Mosselbaii”, “Mosselbay”, “Sinus Mitilorum”, “Бей-В’ю”, “Боплаас”, “Гейдеранд”, “Де-Нова”, “Деллвілле-Парк”, “Ді-Бакке”, “Ді-Воор-Бааі”, “Ісазане”, “Ісінйока”, “КваНокутула”, “Кванонкваба”, “Лінксайд”, “Мосел беј”, “Моссел”, “Моссел бай”, “Моссел Бай”, “Моссел Бэй”, “Ну-Давн”, “Нью-Горізонс”, “Фаірв’ю”, “モーセル・ベイ”, “モッセル・ベイ港”, “モッセル湾”, and “莫塞爾灣”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Post Office Tree and Cape St. Blaize Lighthouse.
Cape St. Blaize Lighthouse
Lighthouse
Mossel Bay
- Category: locality
- Location: Mossel Bay, Garden Route District Municipality, Garden Route, Western Cape, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-34.1832° or 34° 10′ 60″ south
Longitude
22.1536° or 22° 9′ 13″ east
Population
60,000
Elevation
43 metres (141 feet)
IATA airport code
MZY
UN/LOCODE
ZA MZY
Open location code
4GQ4R583+PF
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Mossel Bay” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Mosselbaai”
- Arabic: “خليج موسيل”
- Armenian: “Մոսսել Բեյ”
- Asturian: “Mossel Bay”
- Bulgarian: “Мосъл Бей”
- Cebuano: “Mossel Bay (kapital sa munisipyo)”
- Cebuano: “Mossel Bay”
- Chinese: “莫塞尔贝”
- Chinese: “莫塞爾貝”
- Czech: “Mossel Bay”
- Danish: “Mossel Bay”
- Dutch: “Mosselbaai”
- Egyptian Arabic: “خليج موسيل”
- Esperanto: “Mossel Bay”
- Estonian: “Mossel Bay”
- French: “Mossel Bay”
- German: “Mossel Bay”
- Hausa: “Mossel Bay”
- Hebrew: “מוסל ביי”
- Hungarian: “Mossel Bay”
- Indonesian: “Teluk Mossel”
- Italian: “Mossel Bay”
- Japanese: “モーセルベイ”
- Latin: “Mossel Bay”
- Macedonian: “Моселбај”
- Malagasy: “Mossel Bay”
- Marathi: “मॉसेल बे”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mossel Bay”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Mossel Flēot”
- Pedi: “Mossel Bay”
- Polish: “Mossel Bay”
- Portuguese: “Mossel Bay”
- Romanian: “Mosselbaai”
- Russian: “Моссел Бей”
- Russian: “Моссел-Бей”
- Russian: “Мосселбай”
- Slovak: “Mossel Bay”
- Slovenian: “Mossel Bay”
- Spanish: “Mosselbaai”
- Swahili: “Mossel Bay”
- Swedish: “Mossel Bay”
- Turkish: “Mossel Bay”
- Ukrainian: “Моссел-Бей”
- Urdu: “موسل بے”
- Zulu: “IMossel Bay”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Hamardt Place and Munrohoek.
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