Strand
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.
- Type: Town with 75,000 residents
- Description: town in the Western Cape, South Africa
- Also known as: “Strand, Western Cape”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Dick Dent Bird Sanctuary and Strand High School.
Dick Dent Bird Sanctuary
Nature reserve
Strand High School
School
Hoërskool Strand is an Afrikaans high school located in Strand, South Africa.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Somerset West and Nomzamo.
Somerset West
Lwandle
Suburb
Lwandle is a township in Strand, a town in the eastern… Lwandle is situated 4 km southeast of Strand.
Strand
- Categories: neighborhood and locality
- Location: City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-34.1056° or 34° 6′ 20″ south
Longitude
18.8306° or 18° 49′ 50″ east
Population
75,000
Elevation
7 metres (23 feet)
UN/LOCODE
ZA STD
Open location code
4FQWVRVJ+Q6
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Strand” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Strand, Wes-Kaap”
- Afrikaans: “Strand”
- Dutch: “Strand”
- French: “Strand”
- German: “Strand”
- Hebrew: “סטרנד”
- Italian: “Strand (Sudafrica)”
- Italian: “Strand”
- Japanese: “ストランド”
- Luxembourgish: “Strand”
- Pedi: “Strand, Kapa Bodikela”
- Pedi: “Strand”
- Romanian: “Strand, Africa de Sud”
- Romanian: “Strand”
- Russian: “Странд (ЮАР)”
- Russian: “Странд”
- Spanish: “Strand”
- Turkish: “Strand”
- Urdu: “اسٹرینڈ، ویسٹرن کیپ”
- Vietnamese: “Strand”
- Xhosa: “Strand, Western Cape”
- Zulu: “Strand, Western Cape”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Lochnerhof and The Palms.
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