Place:Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa

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NameGrahamstown
Alt namesGrahamstadsource: NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
TypeCity
Coordinates33.3°S 26.533°E
Located inEastern Cape, South Africa
Also located inCape, South Africa    
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Makhanda, also known as Grahamstown, is a city of about 140,000 people in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. It is situated about northeast of Port Elizabeth and southwest of East London. Makhanda is the largest town in the Makana Local Municipality, and the seat of the municipal council. It also hosts Rhodes University, the Eastern Cape Division of the High Court, the South African Library for the Blind (SALB), a diocese of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa, and 6 South African Infantry Battalion. Furthermore, located approximately 3 km south-east of the town lies the world renowned Waterloo Farm, the only estuarine fossil site in the world from 360 million years ago with exceptional soft-tissue preservation.

The town's name-change from Grahamstown to Makhanda was officially gazetted on 29 June 2018. The town was officially renamed to Makhanda in memory of Xhosa warrior and prophet Makhanda ka Nxele.

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