Sarah Baartman District Municipality (formerly
Cacadu District Municipality) is situated in the western portion of the
Eastern Cape province, covering an area of 58 242 square kilometres. The area of the district municipality includes nine
local municipalities. The seat of Sarah Baartman is the city of
Port Elizabeth, although Port Elizabeth is not itself in the district (it is in the
Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality). The largest languages among the 388,201 people are
Xhosa and
Afrikaans. (2001 Census). The district code is DC10.