Mthatha
Mthatha was once the capital of the former Transkei homeland of South Africa, but is now one of the larger towns in the Eastern Cape. If you're heading to the Wild Coast it's the last place to get decent provisions.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 211,000 residents
- Description: town in the Eastern Cape, South Africa
- Historically known as: “Umtata”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mthatha General Hospital and Nelson Mandela Academic Hospital.
Mthatha General Hospital
Hospital
Mthatha General Hospital is a large Provincial government funded hospital situated in central Mthatha in South Africa. It is a general hospital and forms part of the Mthatha Hospital Complex.
Nelson Mandela Academic Hospital
Hospital
Nelson Mandela Academic Hospital is a large Provincial government funded district general hospital situated in central Mthatha in South Africa. It is a tertiary teaching hospital and forms part of the Mthatha Hospital Complex.
Mthatha
- Categories: town and locality
- Location: King Sabata Dalindyebo Local Municipality, OR Tambo District Municipality, Wild Coast, Eastern Cape, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-31.5891° or 31° 35′ 21″ southLongitude
28.7891° or 28° 47′ 21″ eastPopulation
211,000Elevation
694 metres (2,277 feet)IATA airport code
UTTUnited Nations Location Code
ZA UTTOpen location code
4GWCCQ6Q+9MOpenStreetMap ID
node 262722333OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
946058Wikidata ID
Q1020914
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Mthatha” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Mthatha”
- Afrikaans: “Umtata”
- Arabic: “مثاتا”
- Armenian: “Ումտատա”
- Asturian: “Mthatha”
- Bengali: “তাতা”
- Bulgarian: “Мтхатха”
- Catalan: “Mthatha”
- Catalan: “Umtata”
- Cebuano: “Mthatha”
- Chechen: “Умтата”
- Chinese: “乌姆塔塔”
- Chinese: “烏姆塔塔”
- Croatian: “Mthatha”
- Croatian: “Umtata”
- Danish: “Mthatha”
- Dutch: “Mthatha”
- Dutch: “Umtata”
- Egyptian Arabic: “متاتا”
- Estonian: “Mthatha”
- Finnish: “Mthatha”
- French: “Mthatha”
- French: “Umtata”
- German: “Mthatha”
- Greek: “Ουμτάτα”
- Gujarati: “મથથા”
- Hindi: “था था”
- Indonesian: “Mthatha”
- Italian: “Mthatha”
- Japanese: “ウムタタ”
- Kannada: “ಥಾಥ ,”
- Korean: “마타타”
- Korean: “움타타”
- Latvian: “Mtata”
- Lithuanian: “Mtata”
- Malagasy: “Mthatha”
- Malay: “Mthatha”
- Marathi: “मथाथा”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mthatha”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Umtata”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mthatha”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Umtata”
- Norwegian: “Mthatha”
- Pedi: “Mthatha”
- Polish: “Mthatha”
- Polish: “Umtata”
- Portuguese: “Mthatha”
- Portuguese: “Umtata”
- Romanian: “Mthatha”
- Romanian: “Umtata”
- Russian: “Умтата”
- Shona: “Mthatha”
- Sinhala: “ම්තතා”
- Spanish: “Mthatha”
- Swahili: “Mthatha”
- Swati: “Mthatha”
- Swedish: “Mthatha”
- Swedish: “Umtata”
- Tamil: “ம்தாதா”
- Telugu: “మథాథా”
- Thai: “เอ็มทาทา”
- Tswana: “Mthatha”
- Turkish: “Mthatha”
- Ukrainian: “Мтата”
- Urdu: “متھاتھا”
- Venda: “Mthatha”
- Vietnamese: “Mthatha”
- Welsh: “Mthatha”
- Xhosa: “Mthatha”
- Yoruba: “Mthatha”
- Yoruba: “Umtata”
- Zulu: “Mthatha”
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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 “Mthatha”. Photo: Xufanc, CC BY-SA 3.0.