Jansenville
Sign in to saveJansenville is a town in Sarah Baartman District Municipality in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Jansenville
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Dutch Reformed Church Jansenville-001.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Dutch Reformed Church, Jansenville
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- South Africa Eastern Cape#South Africa#Africa
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- South Africa
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Eastern Cape
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Sarah Baartman
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Municipality
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Dr Beyers Naudé
- Settlement.subdivision_type4
- Main Place
- Settlement.established_title
- Established
- Settlement.established_date
- 1855
- Settlement.leader_title
- Councillor
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 24.9
- Settlement.population_total
- 5612
via Wikipedia infobox
~4 min read
Encyclopedic overview
3 sectionsContents
- History
- About
- References
Jansenville is a town in Sarah Baartman District Municipality in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.
The town is on the Sundays River, 87 km south of Graaff-Reinet. Laid out on the farm Vergenoegd in 1854, it was proclaimed in 1855 and became a municipality in 1881. Said to have been named after General Jan Willem Janssens (1762-1838), the last Batavian Governor of the Cape.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jansenville” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
2 mapped locations
Available in 12 languages
via Wikidata sitelinks · CC0