Plettenberg Bay
Plettenberg Bay is a small coastal resort in South Africa's Western Cape. It's a good stop off point for the Garden Route if you're looking to be closer to the beach than nearby Knysna.- Town with 38,100 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 77 metres (253 feet)
- …has the IATA airport code PBZ
- Description: town in the Western Cape, South Africa
- Also known as“Angra das Algoas”“Bahia de la Goa”“Bahia Formosa”“Bay of St Catherine”“Content Bay”“Formosa”“Keurbooms River Bay”“Pisang River Bay”“Plettenberg”“Plettenbergbaai”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Beacon Island Resort.
Plettenberg Bay
- Category: locality
- Location
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Latitude
-34.0528° or 34° 3′ 10″ south
Longitude
23.3694° or 23° 22′ 10″ east
UN/LOCODE
ZA PBZ
Open location code
4GQ5W9W9+VQ
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Plettenberg Bay” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Plettenbergbaai”
- Arabic: “بليتينبيرغ باي”
- Asturian: “Plettenberg Bay”
- Cebuano: “Plettenberg Bay”
- Chinese: “普利登堡湾”
- Chinese: “普利登堡灣”
- Dutch: “Plettenbergbaai”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بليتينبيرج باى”
- Estonian: “Plettenberg Bay”
- French: “Bahia Formosa”
- French: “Plettenberg Bay”
- French: “Plettenbergbaai”
- German: “Bahia Formosa”
- German: “Plettenberg Bay”
- German: “Plettenbergbaai”
- German: “Plettenbergbay”
- Italian: “Plettenberg Bay”
- Japanese: “プレッテンバーグ・ベイ”
- Japanese: “プレテンベルグ・ベイ”
- Malagasy: “Plettenberg Bay”
- Pedi: “Plettenberg Bay”
- Persian: “خلیج پلتنبرگ”
- Romanian: “Plettenbergbaai”
- Russian: “Плеттенберг-Бей”
- Urdu: “پلٹنبرگ بے”
- Zulu: “IPlettenberg Bay”
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