Port Elizabeth
Frae Wikipedia
| Port Elizabeth Ibhayi |
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| Eik-name(s): The Friendly Ceety or The Windy Ceety | |
  Port Elizabeth
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| Coordinates: 33°57′29″S 25°36′00″E / 33.95806°S 25.6°E | |
| Kintra | Sooth Africae |
| Province | Eastren Cape |
| Municipality | Nelson Mandela Bay |
| Foondit | 1820 |
| Aurie[1] | |
| - Ceety | 335.30 km2 (129.5 sq mi) |
| - Metro | 1,959 km2 (756.4 sq mi) |
| Indwallers (Ceety: 2001; Metro: 2007)[1] | |
| - Ceety | 237,500 |
| - Densitie | 708.3/km2 (1,834.5/sq mi) |
| - Metro | 1,050,930 |
| - Metro densitie |
536.5/km2 (1,389.4/sq mi) |
| "City" population is for the Port Elizabeth Main Place in Census 2001; "Metro" population is for the NMB Metro. | |
| Racial makeup (2001)[1] | |
| - Black African | 13.7% |
| - Coloured | 30.3% |
| - Indian/Asian | 3.9% |
| - White | 52.1% |
| First languages (2001)[1] | |
| - Afrikaans | 47.5% |
| - English | 39.6% |
| - Xhosa | 11.5% |
| - Other | 1.4% |
| Time zone | SAST (UTC+2) |
| Aurie code(s) | 041 |
Port Elizabeth (Xhosa: Ebhayi; colloquial The Bay[2] or Afrikaans: Die Baai) is ane o the lairgest ceeties in Sooth Africae, situatit in the Eastren Cape, 770 km (478 mi) east o Cape Toun. The ceety, aften shortened tae PE an elknamit "The Friendly Ceety" or "The Windy Ceety", stretches for 16 km alang Algoa Bay, an is ane o the major seaports in Sooth Africae.
Port Elizabeth wis foondit as a toun in 1820 tae hoose Breetish settlers as a wey o strengthenin the border region atween the Cape Colony an the Xhosa. It nou forms pairt o the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality which haes a population o ower 1.3 million.
References [edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Main Place Port Elizabeth. Census 2001.
- ↑ Pettman, Charles (1913). Africanderisms; a glossary of South African colloquial words and phrases and of place and other names. Longmans, Green and Co., 51.
