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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 75,000 residents
- Description: town in the Western Cape, South Africa
- Also known as: “Strand, Western Cape”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Dick Dent Bird Sanctuary and Strand High School.
Dick Dent Bird Sanctuary
Nature reserve
Photo: Abu Shawka, CC0.
Dick Dent Bird Sanctuary is a 10 hectares reserve in Strand, South Africa. This isolated bird sanctuary is located near the estuary of the Lourens River.
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.
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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Somerset West and Nomzamo.
Somerset West
Photo: Pbsouthwood, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.
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.
Lwandle
Suburb
Lwandle is a township in Strand, a town in the eastern part of the Cape Town Metro in the Western Cape province of South Africa. Administratively it is a suburb of the City of Cape Town. 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″ southLongitude
18.8306° or 18° 49′ 50″ eastPopulation
75,000Elevation
7 metres (23 feet)United Nations Location Code
ZA STDOpen location code
4FQWVRVJ+Q6OpenStreetMap ID
node 29385915OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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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”
- Vietnamese: “Strand”
- Xhosa: “Strand, Western Cape”
- Zulu: “Strand, Western Cape”
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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 “Strand”. Photo: Casperinfo, CC BY-SA 3.0.