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.Photo: Andresdewet, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: A3alb, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Swellendam
- Type: Town with 13,700 residents
- Description: town in Western Cape, South Africa
- 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" southLongitude
20.4419° or 20° 26' 31" eastPopulation
13,700Elevation
128 metres (420 feet)United Nations Location Code
ZA SWEOpen Location Code
4GQ2XCHR+HQOpenStreetMap ID
node 50485644OpenStreetMap Feature
place=townGeoNames ID
950709Wikidata ID
Q1023257Swellendam Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- 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 (stad)
- 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: Swellendam
- Norwegian Bokmål: Swellendam
- Pedi: Swellendam
- Polish: Swellendam
- Portuguese: Município de Swellendam
- Portuguese: Swellendam
- Romanian: Swellendam
- Russian: Свеллендам
- Spanish: Swellendam
- Swahili: Swellendam
- Swedish: Republiken Swellendam
- Urdu: سویلینڈم
- Zulu: ISwellendam
Other Places Named Swellendam
In the Area
Swellendam is situated close to the suburb Railton and the locality Bontebok National Park Reception & Shop.
- Lang Elsie's Kraal Rest CampHamlet, 6 km south
- BuffeljagsrivierTown, 8 km east
- SuurbraakVillage, 19 km east
- BarrydaleVillage, 29 km northeast
- SmitsvilleSuburb, 29 km northeast
- NewtownSuburb, 30 km northeast
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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 Wikivoyage page Swellendam. Photo: A3alb, CC BY-SA 4.0.