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Port Elizabeth or The Bay (; ) is one of the largest cities in South Africa, situated in the Eastern Cape Province, east of Cape Town. The city, often shortened to PE and nicknamed "The Friendly City" or "The Windy City", stretches for 16 km along Algoa Bay, and is one of the major seaports in South Africa. Port Elizabeth is the southernmost large city on the African continent, just farther south than Cape Town.
Port Elizabeth was founded as a town in 1820 to house British settlers as a way of strengthening the border region between the Cape Colony and the Xhosa. It now forms part of the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality, which has a population of over 1.3 million.
Port Elizabeth is a city in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.
Port Elizabeth may also refer to:
- Port Elizabeth, New Jersey, USA
- Port Newark-Elizabeth Marine Terminal, New Jersey, USA
- Port Elizabeth, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Port Elizabeth is a port or bay on the south side of Gilford Island, British Columbia