Macleantown is a town in Buffalo City in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.

Macleantown
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Coordinates: 32.790°S 27.744°E / -32.790; 27.744
Country	South Africa
Province	Eastern Cape
Municipality	Buffalo City
Area [1]
• Total	9.94 km2 (3.84 sq mi)
Population  (2011)[1]
• Total	580
• Density	58/km2 (150/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011) [1]
• Black African	85.5%
• Coloured	0.3%
• Indian/Asian	0.3%
• White	13.6%
• Other	0.2%
First languages (2011) [1]
• Xhosa	77.6%
• English	15.2%
• Afrikaans	4.3%
• Other	2.9%
Time zone	UTC+2 (SAST)
PO box	5280
Area code	043

Village 34 km north-west of East London and 46 km south-east of Stutterheim. Named in April 1881 after Colonel John Maclean (1810-1874), Chief Commissioner of British Caffraria from 1852 and Lieutenant-Governor of that territory from March 1860 to December 1864.[2]

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