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Jansenville is a town in Sarah Baartman District Municipality in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.

Key facts

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Jansenville
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Dutch Reformed Church Jansenville-001.jpg
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Dutch Reformed Church, Jansenville
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South Africa Eastern Cape#South Africa#Africa
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Country
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South Africa
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Province
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Eastern Cape
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District
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Sarah Baartman
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Municipality
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Dr Beyers Naudé
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Main Place
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Established
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1855
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Councillor
Settlement.area_total_km2
24.9
Settlement.population_total
5612

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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.

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