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Kroonstad
Maokeng | |
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Clockwise from top: Kroonstad NG Motherchurch & Sarel Cilliers monument, Town Hall, Alex Fairweather corner in the CBD | |
| Motto(s): Finis Corona Opus (Latin: The End of the Crown Work) | |
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| Coordinates: 27°39′S 27°14′E / 27.650°S 27.233°E | |
| Country | South Africa |
| Province | Free State |
| District | Fezile Dabi |
| Municipality | Moqhaka |
| Established | 1854[1] |
| Area | |
| • Total | 89.1 km2 (34.4 sq mi) |
| Population (2011)[2] | |
| • Total | 168,762 |
| • Density | 1,900/km2 (4,900/sq mi) |
| Racial makeup (2011) | |
| • Black African | 85.2% |
| • Coloured | 4.0% |
| • Indian/Asian | 0.4% |
| • White | 10.1% |
| • Other | 0.3% |
| First languages (2011) | |
| • Sotho | 73.3% |
| • Afrikaans | 15.8% |
| • English | 3.1% |
| • Xhosa | 2.5% |
| • Other | 5.3% |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (SAST) |
| Postal code (street) | 9499 |
| PO box | 9500 |
| Area code | 056 |
Kroonstad (Afrikaans directly translated "Crown City"), also known as Maokeng, is the fourth largest town in the Free State (after Bloemfontein, Welkom and Bethlehem) and lies two hours' drive on the N1 from Gauteng. It is the second-largest commercial and urban centre in the Northern Free State (after Welkom), and an important railway junction on the main line from Cape Town to Johannesburg. Maokeng is Sesotho and means "place of the thorn trees (mimosa trees)".[3][4]
- ^ Robson, Linda Gillian (2011). "Annexure A" (PDF). The Royal Engineers and settlement planning in the Cape Colony 1806–1872: Approach, methodology and impact (PhD thesis). University of Pretoria. pp. xlv–lii. hdl:2263/26503.
- ^ a b c d Sum of the Main Places Kroonstad and Maokeng from Census 2011.
- ^ "Leadership". 9 (6–10). Churchill Murray Publications. 1990: xlix.
Maokeng (the name means "place of the thorn trees" [...]
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ Ntantala, Phyllis (1993). A Life's Mosaic. University of California Press. p. 80. ISBN 978-0-520-08172-7.
Kroonstad is known as Maokeng - 'at the place of the mimosa groves' - by the Sotho
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