Aberdeen, South Africa
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This article is about Aberdeen, Eastern Cape. For other uses of Aberdeen, see Aberdeen (disambiguation).
Aberdeen is a small town in the Sarah Baartman District Municipality of the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. With its numerous examples of Victorian architecture, it is one of the architectural conservation areas of the Karoo.
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Aberdeen | |
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Coordinates: 32°29′S 24°4′E | |
Country | South Africa |
Province | Eastern Cape |
District | Sarah Baartman |
Municipality | Dr Beyers Naudé |
Established | 1856[1] |
Area | |
• Total | 15.4 km2 (5.9 sq mi) |
Population (2011)[2] | |
• Total | 7,162 |
• Density | 470/km2 (1,200/sq mi) |
Racial makeup (2011) | |
• Black African | 19.4% |
• Coloured | 73.0% |
• Indian/Asian | 0.4% |
• White | 6.7% |
• Other | 0.4% |
First languages (2011) | |
• Afrikaans | 80.7% |
• Xhosa | 15.5% |
• English | 2.2% |
• Other | 1.6% |
Time zone | UTC+2 (SAST) |
Postal code (street) | 6270 |
PO box | 6270 |
Area code | 049 |
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Aberdeen lies some 55 km south-west of Graaff-Reinet, 155 km east-south-east of Beaufort West and 32 km south of the Camdeboo Mountains. Laid out on the farm Brakkefontein as a settlement of the Dutch Reformed Church in 1856 (now the NGK), it became a municipality in 1858. It is named after the Scottish city of Aberdeen.[3]