Macleantown is a town in
Buffalo City in the
Eastern Cape province of
South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the Atlantic Ocean, South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the ...
.
Village 34 km north-west of
East London and 46 km south-east of
Stutterheim
Stutterheim is a town with a population of 46,730 in South Africa, situated in the Border region of the Eastern Cape province. It is named after Richard Von Stutterheim.
History
The area's earliest human population were Bushmen. Khoikhoi groups ...
on the
N6 road. Named in April 1881 after Colonel John Maclean (1810-1874), Chief Commissioner of
British Caffraria from 1852 and Lieutenant-Governor of that territory from March 1860 to December 1864.
References
Populated places in Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality
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