Geography
The Eden district covers an area of 23,331 square kilometres (9,008 sq mi) in the southeastern part of the Western Cape, covering the regions known as the Garden Route and the Little Karoo. It stretches to the Breede River mouth and the Langeberg mountains on the west, where it abuts the Overberg District Municipality and (for a short distance) the Cape Winelands District Municipality. To the north the boundary with the Central Karoo District Municipality runs along the Swartberg mountains. In the east the municipality runs up to the Eastern Cape provincial boundary.
The district is divided into seven local municipalities, described in the following table.
| Name | Code | Seat | Area |
Population |
Density |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kannaland Local Municipality | WC041 | Ladismith | 4,758 | 24,715 | 5.2 |
| Hessequa Local Municipality | WC042 | Riversdale | 5,733 | 39,081 | 6.8 |
| Mossel Bay Local Municipality | WC043 | Mossel Bay | 2,011 | 117,838 | 58.6 |
| George Local Municipality | WC044 | George | 5,191 | 136,542 | 26.3 |
| Oudtshoorn Local Municipality | WC045 | Oudtshoorn | 3,537 | 79,606 | 22.5 |
| Bitou Local Municipality | WC047 | Plettenberg Bay | 992 | 39,002 | 39.3 |
| Knysna Local Municipality | WC048 | Knysna | 1,109 | 65,045 | 58.7 |
| Total | 23,331 | 513,307 | 22.0 | ||
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