Somerset West
Somerset West is a city in the Cape Winelands in the Western Cape region of South Africa. It is a suburb of the metropole of greater Cape Town, and is administrated by the City Council of Cape Town.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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- Type: Town with 80,000 residents
- Description: town in the Western Cape, South Africa
- Postal code: 7130
Places of Interest
Highlights include Hottentots Holland High School and Parel Vallei High School.
Hottentots Holland High School
School
Hottentots-Holland High School is an Afrikaans- and English-speaking school in the Western Cape in South Africa, situated between the towns of Somerset West and Strand.
Parel Vallei High School
School
Parel Vallei High School is a co-ed high school located in Parel Vallei, a suburb of Somerset West, which is in the Western Cape, South Africa. Pupils attending the school are from the surrounding towns, such as Somerset West and Strand, as well as areas further away, such as Grabouw.
Strand High School
School
Hoërskool Strand is an Afrikaans high school located in Strand, South Africa. 1 089 students attend the school, mostly residents of Strand, although students from as far as Gordon's Bay, Somerset West, and even Grabouw attend the school.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Strand and Parel Vallei.
Strand
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Strand is a far western suburb of Cape Town on the north coast of False Bay, just south of Somerset West and just west of Gordon's Bay.
Parel Vallei
Suburb
Parel Vallei is an affluent suburb of Somerset West in the Western Cape, South Africa. There is a high school situated in the suburb known as Parel Vallei High School.
Nomzamo
Suburb
Lwandle/Nomzamo is a small township in the Helderberg basin just outside Strand in the Western Cape of South Africa. Both names are sometimes used interchangeably referring to both places. Nomzamo is situated 4 km south of Somerset West.
Somerset West
- Categories: neighborhood and locality
- Location: City of Cape Town, Cape Winelands, Western Cape, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-34.0822° or 34° 4′ 56″ southLongitude
18.8489° or 18° 50′ 56″ eastPopulation
80,000Elevation
13 metres (43 feet)United Nations Location Code
ZA SOMOpen location code
4FQWWR9X+4HOpenStreetMap ID
node 220456263OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Somerset West” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Somerset-Wes”
- Arabic: “سومرست ويست”
- Chinese: “索美實西”
- Chinese: “西薩默塞特”
- Danish: “Somerset West”
- Dutch: “Somerset West”
- Esperanto: “Somerset West”
- Finnish: “Somerset West”
- French: “Somerset West”
- German: “Somerset West”
- Hebrew: “סאמרסט וסט”
- Italian: “Somerset West”
- Japanese: “サマーセット・ウェスト”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Somerset West”
- Norwegian: “Somerset West”
- Pedi: “Somerset West”
- Polish: “Somerset West”
- Portuguese: “Somerset West”
- Romanian: “Somerset-Wes”
- Russian: “Сомерсет Вест”
- Russian: “Сомерсет-Уэст”
- Slovenian: “Somerset-West”
- Swahili: “Somerset West”
- Swati: “Somerset West”
- Swedish: “Somerset West”
- Turkish: “Somerset West”
- Ukrainian: “Сомерсет-Вест”
- Urdu: “سومرسیٹ ویسٹ”
- Xhosa: “Somerset West”
- Zulu: “Somerset West”
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