Bloemfontein

Bloemfontein
Bloemfontein
	Bloemfontein skyline viewed frae Signal Hill
	Eik-name(s): The ceety o roses
	Bloemfontein
	Coordinates: 29°06′S 26°13′E / 29.100°S 26.217°E
Kintra	Sooth Africae
Province	Free State
Municipality	Mangaung
Established	1846
Area
• Total	333.69 km2 (128.84 sq mi)
Elevation	1395 m (4,577 ft)
Population (2001)
• Total	328,773
• Density	990/km2 (2,600/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2001)
• Black African	72.6%
• Coloured	5.0%
• Indie	0.2%
• White	22.2%
First leids (2001)
• Sotho	36.5%
• Afrikaans	25.0%
• Tswana	19.0%
• Xhosa	14.3%
• Ither	5.2%
Time zone	UTC+2 (SAST)
Area code(s)	051

Bloemfontein (pronounced /ˈblʊmfɒnteɪn/^{(deprecatit template)}, Dutch for "spring o Bloem (bloom)", "flouer spring" or "funtain o flouers") is the caipital ceety o the Free State Province o Sooth Africae. It is an aa the judicial caipital, makin it ane o the three naitional caipitals o Sooth Africae (thegither wi the administrative caipital Pretoria an the legislative caipital Cape Toun). Bloemfontein is popularly an poetically kent as "the ceety o roses", awin tae the abundance o these flouers an the annual rose festival held thare.^[3]^[4] The ceety's Sesotho name is Mangaung, meanin "place o cheetahs" an it haes been includit in the Mangaung Local Municipality syne 2000.

Bloemfontein is situatit on dry grassland at 29°06′S 26°13′E / 29.100°S 26.217°E / -29.100; 26.217, at an altitude o 1,395 metres abuin sea level. The ceety is hame tae 369,568 residents, while the Mangaung Local Municipality haes a population o 645,455. Bloemfontein is served bi Bloemfontein Airport.

References

↑ "Chronological order of town establishment in South Africa based on Floyd (1960:20-26)" (PDF). pp. xlv–lii. Archived frae the original (PDF) on 13 Julie 2019. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
1 2 3 4 The figures are a sum of the census places Bloemfontein, Mangaung Part 1.
↑ Bloemfontein: Did you know? Archived 2008-03-08 at the Wayback Machine
↑ Bloemfontein: General Information Archived 2008-12-08 at the Wayback Machine

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[established-1] "Chronological order of town establishment in South Africa based on Floyd (1960:20-26)" (PDF). pp. xlv–lii. Archived frae the original (PDF) on 13 Julie 2019. Retrieved 1 August 2012.

[census2001-2] 1 2 3 4 The figures are a sum of the census places Bloemfontein, Mangaung Part 1.

[3] Bloemfontein: Did you know? Archived 2008-03-08 at the Wayback Machine

[4] Bloemfontein: General Information Archived 2008-12-08 at the Wayback Machine

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