Port Elizabeth

Port Elizabeth
Port Elizabeth; Die Baai (in Afrikaans); iBhayi (in Xhosa)
	Ceety Haw, Mercat Square, Port Elizabeth.
Kintra	Sooth Africae
Province	Eastren Cape
Municipality	Nelson Mandela Bay
Established	1820
Govrenment
• Mayor	Athol Trollip (DA)
Area
• City	251.03 km2 (96.92 sq mi)
• Metro	1959 km2 (756 sq mi)
Population (2011)
• City	312,392
• Density	1,200/km2 (3,200/sq mi)
• Metro	1,152,915
• Metro density	590/km2 (1,500/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011)
• Black African	30.6%
• Coloured	27.0%
• Indian/Asian	3.2%
• White	37.8%
• Other	1.4%
First leids (2011)
• Afrikaans	40.2%
• Inglis	33.2%
• Xhosa	22.2%
• Other	4.3%
Postal code (street)	6001
PO box	6000
Aurie code	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

1 2 3 4 5 "Main Place Port Elizabeth". Census 2011.
↑ Pettman, Charles (1913). Africanderisms; a glossary of South African colloquial words and phrases and of place and other names. Longmans, Green and Co. p. 51.

[census2011-1] 1 2 3 4 5 "Main Place Port Elizabeth". Census 2011.

[2] Pettman, Charles (1913). Africanderisms; a glossary of South African colloquial words and phrases and of place and other names. Longmans, Green and Co. p. 51.

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