Key facts
- Country
- South Africa
- Province
- Western Cape
- District
- Cape Winelands
- Municipality
- Breede Valley
- Total
- 73.2 km (28.3 sq mi)
- Density
- 1,740/km (4,510/sq mi)
- Black african
- 25.4%
- Coloured
- 55.7%
- Indian asian
- 0.8%
- White
- 17.0%
- Other
- 1.1%
- Afrikaans
- 73.1%
- Xhosa
- 19.1%
- English
- 3.7%
- Sotho
- 1.7%
- Time zone
- UTC+2 ( SAST )
- Area code
- 023
- Website
- www .breedevallei .gov .za
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- town
- Country
- South Africa
- Located in
- Breede Valley Local Municipality
- Population
- 97098
- Area
- 73.2
- Elevation
- 220
- Capital of
- Cape Winelands District Municipality
- Official website
- www.breedevallei.gov.za
- Image
- WorcesterWC-HighStreet.jpg
- Dialing code
- 023
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- Commons category
- Worcester, South Africa
- inception
- 1819-01-01
- postal code
- 6849
- different from
- Worcester
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
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Worcester (/ˈwʊstər/ WUUST-ər) is a town in the Western Cape, South Africa. It is located 120 kilometres (75 mi) north-east of Cape Town on the N1 highway north to Johannesburg.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Worcester” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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