Jacobsbaai

{{Infobox settlement

| name = Jacobsbaai

| image_skyline = Jacobsbaai, South Africa.jpg

| image_caption = Jacobsbaai

| pushpin_map = South Africa Western Cape#South Africa

| coordinates = {{coord|32|58|0|S|17|53|25|E|region:ZA|display=inline,title}}

| subdivision_type = Country

| subdivision_name = South Africa

| subdivision_type1 = Province

| subdivision_name1 = Western Cape

| subdivision_type2 = District

| subdivision_name2 = West Coast

| subdivision_type3 = Municipality

| subdivision_name3 = Saldanha Bay

| subdivision_type4 = Main Place

| established_title = Established

| leader_title = Councillor

| area_footnotes = {{cite web |url=http://census2011.adrianfrith.com/place/163006 |title = Main Place Jacobsbaai |work=Census 2011}}

| area_total_km2 = 3.43

| population_footnotes =

| population_total = 416

| population_as_of = 2011

| population_density_km2 = auto

| demographics_type1 = Racial makeup (2011)

| demographics1_footnotes =

| demographics1_title1 = Black African

| demographics1_info1 = 0.5%

| demographics1_title2 = Coloured

| demographics1_info2 = 3.4%

| demographics1_title3 = Indian/Asian

| demographics1_info3 = 1.0%

| demographics1_title4 = White

| demographics1_info4 = 95.2%

| demographics1_title5 = Other

| demographics1_info5 =

| demographics_type2 = First languages (2011)

| demographics2_footnotes =

| demographics2_title1 = Afrikaans

| demographics2_info1 = 87.2%

| demographics2_title2 = English

| demographics2_info2 = 11.8%

| demographics2_title3 =

| demographics2_info3 =

| demographics2_title4 =

| demographics2_info4 =

| demographics2_title5 = Other

| demographics2_info5 = 1.0%

| timezone1 = SAST

| utc_offset1 = +2

| postal_code_type = Postal code (street)

| postal_code =

| postal2_code_type = PO box

| postal2_code =

| area_code_type = Area code

}}

Jacobsbaai is a settlement in West Coast District Municipality in the Western Cape province of South Africa.

Jacobsbaai was founded as a small town on the farmland registered as 109 Jacobsbaai. The name is said to have come from the Frenchman Jacques Titius. He was a colonial trader in the West Coast. Tietiesbaai is also named after him, and Jacobsbaai has a street called Titius. Another explanation for the name is that the English king entrusted the piece of land to a local known as ‘Jacob', a chief of the Gonneman Hottentots.

File:Jacobsbaai original add 1994.jpg|Jacobsbaai advertising effort in 1993

File:Jacobsbaai flyer.jpg|Advertisement placed in 1995

References

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{{West Coast District Municipality}}

Category:Populated places in the Saldanha Bay Local Municipality