Hamburg (South Africa)
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| Coordinates | 33 ° 17 ′ 27 ″ S , 27 ° 28 ′ 30 ″ E | ||
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| Country | South Africa | ||
| Eastern Cape | |||
| District | Amathole | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | ZA-EC | ||
| local community | Ngqushwa | ||
| surface | 10.9 km² | ||
| Residents | 1348 (2011) | ||
| density | 124 Ew. / km² | ||
| founding | in the middle of the 19th century | ||
 Place name sign of Hamburg
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Hamburg is a city on the Atlantic coast of the Eastern Cape Province in South Africa . It is located between East London and Port Alfred in the parish of Ngqushwa on the banks of the Keiskamma River . In 2011 Hamburg had 1,348 inhabitants in 454 households on an area of 10.87 square kilometers . This corresponds to a population density of 124 inhabitants / km².
Hamburg is a fishing village at the mouth of the Keiskamma River. Near Hamburg is the Hamburg Nature Reserve , a nature park that is maintained by the responsible South African ministry.
history
Hamburg was founded in the middle of the 19th century by former German mercenaries from the Crimean War . The area of Hamburg was around 1854 on the border between the Cape Colony and British Kaffraria . In the course of the further British expansion in South Africa, the place became part of the Cape Colony and after the formation of the South African Union in 1910, consequently, part of the Cape Province .
From 1961 to 1994, Hamburg was part of what was then Homeland Ciskei .
population
95.8 percent of the population are black , followed by 4 percent white. isiXhosa is the mother tongue of more than 91 percent of Hamburg's residents. 4.9 percent state English as their mother tongue, 1.6 percent Xitsonga .
7.6 percent of the population aged 20 and over has a higher level of education. Almost every 10th inhabitant has never gone to school.
Infrastructure
Almost every ninth household in Hamburg has a drinking water connection in the house, 88 percent have electricity, whereby only 7 percent have a toilet connected to the public sewage system (all data as of 2011).
gallery
Signpost to Hamburg on the N2
Main street of Hamburg
Beach section near Hamburg
Individual evidence
- ↑ Welcome to Ngqushwa Local Municipality. Ngqushwa Local Municipality. Retrieved February 8, 2019.
- ↑ a b c d Hamburg. Statistics South Africa. Retrieved February 8, 2019.
- ↑ a b c Hamburg. Southafrica.net . Retrieved June 19, 2017.