Herbertsdale | |
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  Herbertsdale  Herbertsdale | |
| Coordinates: 34°01′S21°46′E / 34.017°S 21.767°E Coordinates: 34°01′S21°46′E / 34.017°S 21.767°E | |
| Country | South Africa |
| Province | Western Cape |
| District | Garden Route |
| Municipality | Mossel Bay |
| Area | |
| • Total | 2.87 km2 (1.11 sq mi) |
| Population (2011) [1] | |
| • Total | 666 |
| • Density | 230/km2 (600/sq mi) |
| Racial makeup (2011) | |
| • Black African | 8.3% |
| • Coloured | 77.0% |
| • Indian/Asian | 1.2% |
| • White | 12.6% |
| • Other | 0.9% |
| First languages (2011) | |
| • Afrikaans | 95.9% |
| • English | 2.3% |
| • Other | 1.9% |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (SAST) |
| PO box | 6505 |
| Area code | 044 |
Herbertsdale is a settlement in Garden Route District Municipality in the Western Cape province of South Africa.
The Garden Route District Municipality is a district municipality located in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. Its municipality code is DC4.
The Western Cape is a province of South Africa, situated on the south-western coast of the country. It is the fourth largest of the nine provinces with an area of 129,449 square kilometres (49,981 sq mi), and the third most populous, with an estimated 6.6 million inhabitants in 2018. About two-thirds of these inhabitants live in the metropolitan area of Cape Town, which is also the provincial capital. The Western Cape was created in 1994 from part of the former Cape Province.
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by 2,798 kilometres (1,739 mi) of coastline of Southern Africa stretching along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring countries of Namibia, Botswana, and Zimbabwe; and to the east and northeast by Mozambique and Eswatini (Swaziland); and it surrounds the enclaved country of Lesotho. South Africa is the largest country in Southern Africa and the 25th-largest country in the world by land area and, with over 57 million people, is the world's 24th-most populous nation. It is the southernmost country on the mainland of the Old World or the Eastern Hemisphere. About 80 percent of South Africans are of Sub-Saharan African ancestry, divided among a variety of ethnic groups speaking different African languages, nine of which have official status. The remaining population consists of Africa's largest communities of European (White), Asian (Indian), and multiracial (Coloured) ancestry.
Village east of the Gourits River, in the Langtou Valley, 56 km north-west of Mossel Bay. It was established in 1865 on the farm Hemelrood and named after James Benton Herbert, who owned part of this farm. [2]
Gourits River, sometimes spelled 'Gouritz River', is situated in the Western Cape, South Africa.
Mossel Bay is a harbour town of about 130,000 people on the Southern Cape of South Africa. It is an important tourism and farming region of the Western Cape Province. Mossel Bay lies 400 kilometres east of the country's seat of parliament, Cape Town, and 400 km west of Port Elizabeth, the largest city in the Eastern Cape Province. The older parts of the town occupy the north-facing side of the Cape St Blaize Peninsula, whilst the newer suburbs straddle the Peninsula and have spread eastwards along the sandy shore of the Bay.
