Port Elizabeth

Japanese: ポート・エリザベス(英語表記)Port Elizabeth
Port Elizabeth
A port city in the Eastern Cape Province in the southern part of South Africa. Population: 304,000 (1991), metropolitan population: 853,000 (1991). Facing Algoa Bay in the Indian Ocean, it is a strategic location for rail, road and air routes, and is an export port for diamonds, wool and fruit. It is also a center of industrial production, including automobiles, electrical machinery, metal processing and woodworking. There are museums, art galleries and other cultural facilities, and the coast is known to white people living inland as a resort. After about 3,000 British immigrants settled in 1820, R. Donkin, the acting governor of the Cape Colony, built a stone pyramid in memory of his deceased wife Elizabeth, and named the new city after her.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:
南アフリカ共和国南部,東ケープ州の港湾都市。人口30万4000(1991),大都市域人口85万3000(1991)。インド洋のアルゴア湾に臨み,鉄道,道路,航空路の要衝で,ダイヤモンド,羊毛,果物などの輸出港である。また自動車,電機,金属加工,木工など工業生産の中心でもある。博物館,美術館その他の文化施設もあり,海岸は保養地として内陸の白人たちに知られている。1799年イギリスが建設したフレデリック要塞を母体として,1820年に約3000人のイギリス移民が入植した後,ケープ植民地代理総督R.ドンキンが死亡した妻エリザベスを記念して石のピラミッドを建て,新都市の名も彼女にちなんで命名した。

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