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Queenstown
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city in Eastern Cape Province, South Africa
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Place details
- Locality
- Lukhanji Local Municipality
- Region
- Eastern Cape
- Country
- South Africa
- Population
- 118,599
- Timezone
- Africa/Johannesburg
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Country
- South Africa
- Province
- Eastern Cape
- District
- Chris Hani
- Municipality
- Enoch Mgijima
- Mayor
- Madoda Pipiyana
- Total
- 71.3 km (27.5 sq mi)
- Density
- 966/km (2,500/sq mi)
- Black african
- 81.8%
- Coloured
- 10.0%
- Indian asian
- 1.1%
- White
- 6.5%
- Other
- 0.6%
- Xhosa
- 75.2%
- Afrikaans
- 13.8%
- English
- 7.3%
- Time zone
- UTC+2 ( SAST )
- Area code
- 045
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Queenstown, officially Komani, is a town in the middle of the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, roughly halfway between the smaller towns of Cathcart and Sterkstroom on the N6 national route. The town was established in 1853 and is currently the commercial, administrative, and educational centre of the surrounding farming district.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Queenstown” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.