Stellenbosch
Stellenbosch is a city in the Western Cape, and is the heart of the Cape Winelands, South Africa's prime wine region. Its historical parts display colonial Dutch architecture.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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- Type: Town with 60,000 residents
- Description: town in the Western Cape, South Africa
- Also known as: “City of Oaks”
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Photo: Fmalan, Public domain.
Photo: Hendrik van den Berg, CC BY 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Danie Craven Stadium and Coetzenburg Stadium.
Danie Craven Stadium
Stadium
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The Danie Craven Stadium is a rugby union stadium in Stellenbosch, South Africa. Built in 1979, it is part of the Stellenbosch University's sport facilities.
Coetzenburg Stadium
Stadium
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Coetzenburg Stadium is a multi-sports venue in Stellenbosch, South Africa, on a portion of the old Coetsenburg Estate which was founded by Dirk Coetsee in 1682 after a grant of land from the Dutch Governor of the Cape Colony Simon van der Stel.
Moederkerk
Church
Photo: Fmalan, Public domain.
The Moederkerk in Stellenbosch is the second oldest congregation of the Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kayamandi and Rozendal.
Kayamandi
Suburb
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Kayamandi is a suburb of Stellenbosch in the Western Cape province of South Africa located off route R304. Kayamandi is one of the developing townships situated in Stellenbosch.
Rozendal
Suburb
Rozendal is a residential suburb of Stellenbosch since roughly the early 1970s. It forms the eastern border of the town together with Karindal. Stellenbosch is the second-oldest town in South Africa after Cape Town.
Stellenbosch
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Stellenbosch Local Municipality, Cape Winelands District Municipality, Cape Winelands, Western Cape, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-33.9344° or 33° 56′ 4″ southLongitude
18.8692° or 18° 52′ 9″ eastPopulation
60,000Elevation
122 metres (400 feet)Named after
Simon van der StelOpen location code
4FRW3V89+6MOpenStreetMap ID
node 21489671OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Stellenbosch” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Eikestad”
- Afrikaans: “Matieland”
- Afrikaans: “Matiestad”
- Afrikaans: “Stellenbos”
- Afrikaans: “Stellenbosch”
- Arabic: “ستيلينبوش”
- Armenian: “Սթելենբոս”
- Armenian: “Սթելլենբոս”
- Asturian: “Stellenbosch”
- Basque: “Stellenbosch”
- Catalan: “Stellenbosch”
- Cebuano: “Stellenbosch (kapital sa munisipyo)”
- Cebuano: “Stellenbosch”
- Chinese: “斯泰伦博斯”
- Chinese: “斯泰倫博斯”
- Chinese: “斯蒂倫波什”
- Czech: “Stellenbosch”
- Danish: “Stellenbosch”
- Dutch: “Stellenbosch (stad)”
- Dutch: “Stellenbosch”
- Esperanto: “Stellenbosch”
- Estonian: “Stellenbosch”
- Finnish: “Stellenbosch”
- French: “Stellenbosch”
- Galician: “Stellenbosch”
- German: “Stellenbosch”
- Greek: “Στέλλενμπος”
- Hakka Chinese: “Stellenbosch”
- Hebrew: “סטנלבוש”
- Indonesian: “Stellenbosch”
- Italian: “Stellenbosch”
- Japanese: “ステレンボッシュ”
- Korean: “스텔렌보스”
- Latin: “Stellenbosch”
- Lithuanian: “Stelenbosas”
- Luxembourgish: “Stellenbosch”
- Macedonian: “Стеленбос”
- Malagasy: “Stellenbosch”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Stellenbosch”
- Norwegian: “Stellenbosch”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Stellenbosch”
- Pedi: “Stellenbosch”
- Pennsylvania German: “Stellenbosch”
- Persian: “استلنبوش”
- Polish: “Stellenbosch”
- Portuguese: “Stellenbosch”
- Romanian: “Stellenbosch”
- Russian: “Стелленбос”
- Scots: “Stellenbosch”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Stellenbosch”
- Slovak: “Stellenbosch”
- Slovenian: “City of Oaks”
- Slovenian: “Mesto hrastov”
- Slovenian: “Stellenbosch”
- Spanish: “Stellenbosch”
- Swahili: “Stellenbosch”
- Swedish: “Stellenbosch”
- Turkish: “Stellenbosch”
- Tyap: “Si̱ta̱li̱mbwot”
- Ukrainian: “Стелленбош”
- Urdu: “سٹیلن بوش”
- Venda: “Stellenbosch”
- Western Frisian: “Stellenbosch”
- Zulu: “IStellenbosch”
- “Stellenbosch”
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