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Metropolitan municipality in Eastern Cape, South Africa

Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality

The Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality is a metropolitan municipality situated on the east coast of the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.

Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality
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The place

The Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality is a metropolitan municipality situated on the east coast of the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. It includes the towns of KuGompo City, Bhisho and Qonce, as well as the large townships of Mdantsane and Zwelitsha.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality

One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    East London Museum

    East London Museum is a museum in East London, Eastern Cape, South Africa, notable for holding the type specimen of the coelacanth, a fish previously believed to be long extinct. It was the workplace of Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, the fish's discoverer.

    3.2 km · museum in South Africa · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality

Airports
King Phalo (ELS), 7 km · Chief Dawid Stuurman (PLZ), 237 km
  • Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth) → Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality
    220 km · quickest by road, 4h 37m · R255–340
  • Bloemfontein → Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality
    451 km · quickest by road, 8h 32m · R485–650
  • Durban → Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality
    470 km · quickest by air, 7h 24m · R1,410–2,190
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inon the corner of Buffalo and College streets are Minibus taxis going to port Elizabeth for R100.

From Wikivoyage: East London, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    SossusvleiNA

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    1,522 km
  2. 02
    Cape Maclear (Chembe)MW

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    2,224 km
  3. 03
    South Luangwa National Park and MfuweZM

    12 ways of moving, 36 sources

    2,247 km
  4. 04
    Ilha de MoçambiqueMZ

    11 ways of moving, 47 sources

    2,380 km
  5. 05
    ZanzibarTZ

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    3,202 km

If you know how people move in Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality

Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality is 5 km from East London, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.