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.

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.
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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.
- 01East 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
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Getting to Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality
- Airports
- King Phalo (ELS), 7 km · Chief Dawid Stuurman (PLZ), 237 km
- Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth) → Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality220 km · quickest by road, 4h 37m · R255–340
- Bloemfontein → Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality451 km · quickest by road, 8h 32m · R485–650
- Durban → Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality470 km · quickest by air, 7h 24m · R1,410–2,190
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
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.
- Get inon the corner of Buffalo and College streets are Minibus taxis going to port Elizabeth for R100.
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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.
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.
- Duncan Villagehuman settlement in South Africa3.4 km
- Gomposuburb of East London, South Africa3.8 km
- Cambridge, Eastern Capehuman settlement in South Africa1.8 km