Swellendam
Swellendam is in the Western Cape region. It's one of the oldest European settlements in South Africa. The town has over 50 provincial heritage sites, most of them buildings of Cape Dutch architecture.
- Type: Town with 21,000 residents
- Description: town in Western Cape, South Africa
- Also known as: “Município de Swellendam” and “Swellendam (stad)”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Drostdy Museum.
Drostdy Museum
Museum
Drostdy Museum is located in Swellendam, South Africa. The building was built in 1747 by the Dutch East India Company as a residence for the Magistrate.
Swellendam
- Category: locality
- Location: Swellendam Local Municipality, Overberg, Western Cape, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-34.0211° or 34° 1′ 16″ south
Longitude
20.4419° or 20° 26′ 31″ east
Population
21,000
Elevation
128 metres (420 feet)
United Nations Location Code
ZA SWE
Open location code
4GQ2XCHR+HQ
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Swellendam” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Swellendam”
- Arabic: “سويليندام”
- Armenian: “Սվելլենդամ”
- Asturian: “Swellendam”
- Breton: “Swellendam”
- Bulgarian: “Швелендам”
- Catalan: “Swellendam”
- Cebuano: “Swellendam”
- Chinese: “斯維勒丹”
- Chinese: “斯韋倫丹”
- Chinese: “斯韦伦丹”
- Danish: “Swellendam”
- Dutch: “Swellendam”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سويليندام”
- Estonian: “Swellendam”
- French: “Swellendam”
- German: “Swellendam”
- Hakka Chinese: “Swellendam”
- Hausa: “Swellendam”
- Hebrew: “סוולנדאם”
- Italian: “Swellendam”
- Japanese: “スウェレンダム”
- Korean: “스웰렌담”
- Malagasy: “Swellendam”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Swellendam”
- Norwegian: “Swellendam”
- Pedi: “Swellendam”
- Polish: “Swellendam”
- Portuguese: “Swellendam”
- Romanian: “Swellendam”
- Russian: “Свеллендам”
- Spanish: “Swellendam”
- Swahili: “Swellendam”
- Swedish: “Republiken Swellendam”
- Urdu: “سویلینڈم”
- Zulu: “ISwellendam”
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