{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2015}} {{Use South African English|date=January 2015}} {{Infobox settlement | name = Klipplaat | image_skyline = NG_kerk_Klipplaat_1.jpg | image_caption = Dutch Reformed Church in Klipplaat | pushpin_map = South Africa Eastern Cape#South Africa | coordinates = {{coord|33.018|S|24.340|E|region:ZA|display=inline,title}} | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = [[South Africa]] | subdivision_type1 = Province | subdivision_name1 = [[Eastern Cape]] | subdivision_type2 = District | subdivision_name2 = [[Sarah Baartman District Municipality|Sarah Baartman]] | subdivision_type3 = Municipality | subdivision_name3 = [[Dr Beyers Naudé Local Municipality|Dr Beyers Naudé]] | subdivision_type4 = Main Place | established_title = Established | leader_title = Councillor | area_footnotes = <ref name=census2011>Sum of the Main Places [http://census2011.adrianfrith.com/place/263004 Klipplaat] and [http://census2011.adrianfrith.com/place/263005 Wongalethu] from Census 2011.</ref> | area_total_km2 = 12.9 | population_footnotes = <ref name=census2011 /> | population_total = 2967 | population_as_of = 2011 | population_density_km2 = auto <!-- demographics (section 1) --> | demographics_type1 = Racial makeup (2011) | demographics1_footnotes = <ref name=census2011 /> | demographics1_title1 = [[Bantu peoples of South Africa|Black African]] | demographics1_info1 = 36.7% | demographics1_title2 = [[Coloureds|Coloured]] | demographics1_info2 = 61.3% | demographics1_title3 = [[Indian South African|Indian]]/[[Asian South African|Asian]] | demographics1_info3 = 0.4% | demographics1_title4 = [[White South African|White]] | demographics1_info4 = 1.1% | demographics1_title5 = Other | demographics1_info5 = 0.6% <!-- demographics (section 2) --> | demographics_type2 = [[First language]]s (2011) | demographics2_footnotes = <ref name=census2011 /> | demographics2_title1 = [[Afrikaans]] | demographics2_info1 = 67.7% | demographics2_title2 = [[Xhosa language|Xhosa]] | demographics2_info2 = 27.3% | demographics2_title3 = [[English language|English]] | demographics2_info3 = 2.5% | demographics2_title4 = | demographics2_info4 = | demographics2_title5 = Other | demographics2_info5 = 2.5% <!-- blank fields (section 2) --> <!-- Other information --> | timezone1 = [[South African Standard Time|SAST]] | utc_offset1 = +2 | postal_code_type = [[List of postal codes in South Africa|Postal code]] (street) | postal_code = 6255 | postal2_code_type = [[Post-office box|PO box]] | postal2_code = 6255 | area_code_type = [[Telephone numbers in South Africa|Area code]] | area_code = 049 }} '''Klipplaat''' is a town in the [[Sarah Baartman District Municipality]] in the [[Eastern Cape]] province of [[South Africa]].
The town is some 185 km north-west of [[Port Elizabeth]] and 75 km south-east of [[Aberdeen, Eastern Cape|Aberdeen]].<ref>[http://www.saexplorer.co.za/south-africa/distance/klipplaat_distance.asp Travel distances from Klipplaat]</ref> It takes its name from large slabs of rock on the surface of the ground; from [[Afrikaans]] ''klip'': 'stone' or 'rock'; ''plaat'': 'sheet' or 'slab'.<ref name=dsapn>{{cite web|title=Dictionary of Southern African Place Names (Public Domain)|url=https://archive.org/details/DictionaryOfSouthernAfricanPlaceNames|publisher=Human Science Research Council|page=251}}</ref>
==References== {{reflist}}
{{EasternCape-geo-stub}} {{Sarah Baartman District Municipality}}
[[Category:Populated places in the Dr Beyers Naudé Local Municipality]]