Paterson
Paterson is a settlement in Sarah Baartman District Municipality in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. The town is located some 80 kilometres north-west of Alexandria and 21 kilometres north of Nanaga on the N10 National Route.Paterson
- Type: Town with 6,690 residents
- Description: human settlement in South Africa
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Sunday's River Valley Local Municipality, Sarah Baartman District Municipality, Eastern Cape, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-33.43972° or 33° 26' 23" southLongitude
25.97278° or 25° 58' 22" eastPopulation
6,690Elevation
309 metres (1,014 feet)Open Location Code
4GR7HX6F+44OpenStreetMap ID
node 262721898OpenStreetMap Feature
place=townGeoNames ID
966134Wikidata ID
Q7144572Paterson Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Paterson
- Asturian: Paterson, Eastern Cape
- Dutch: Paterson
- English: Paterson, Eastern Cape
- English: Paterson, South Africa
- Estonian: Paterson (LAV)
- Estonian: Paterson
- French: Paterson
- Italian: Paterson
- Pedi: Paterson
- Romanian: Patterson, Africa de Sud
- Southern Sotho: Paterson
- Zulu: IPaterson, IMpumalanga Kapa
- Sandflats
Other Places Named Paterson
Localities in the Area
Landmarks in the Area
- PatersonRailway station
- BoesmanspoortRailway station, 7 km east
- ShamwariAerodrome, 8 km east
- MimosaRailway station, 12 km west
- OlifantskopPeak, 14 km north
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipdia page Paterson. Photo: Jon Rawlinson, CC BY 2.0.