Bloemfontein

Summary

Bloemfontein is a city^[1]. Bloemfontein ranks in the top 1% of city entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (8,074 views/month).^[2]

Key Facts

• Bloemfontein is located in Mangaung Metropolitan Municipality^[3].
• Bloemfontein is in the country of South Africa^[4].
• Bloemfontein is on the continent of Africa^[5].
• Bloemfontein's instance of is recorded as city^[6].
• Bloemfontein's instance of is recorded as big city^[7].
• Bloemfontein's instance of is recorded as judicial capital^[8].
• Bloemfontein's shares border with is recorded as Kroonstad^[9].
• flower is named after Bloemfontein^[10].
• fountain is named after Bloemfontein^[11].
• Bloemfontein's twinned administrative body is recorded as Nanjing^[12].
• Bloemfontein's twinned administrative body is recorded as Bhubaneswar^[13].
• Bloemfontein's postal code is recorded as 9301^[14].
• Bloemfontein's postal code is recorded as 9300^[15].
• Bloemfontein's Commons category is recorded as Bloemfontein^[16].
• Bloemfontein's located in time zone is recorded as UTC+02:00^[17].
• Bloemfontein's local dialing code is recorded as 051^[18].
• January 1, 1846 marks the founding of Bloemfontein^[19].
• Bloemfontein's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': -29.1, 'lon': 26.216666666667}^[20].
• Bloemfontein's official website is recorded as http://www.bloemfontein.co.za/^[21].
• Bloemfontein's official website is recorded as https://www.bloemfontein-information.co.za/^[22].
• Bloemfontein's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Bloemfontein^[23].
• Bloemfontein has a population of {'amount': '+256185'}^[24].
• Bloemfontein's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[25].
• Bloemfontein's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition^[26].
• Bloemfontein's described by source is recorded as 1922 Encyclopædia Britannica^[27].

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Geography

Bloemfontein is in the country of South Africa^[4]. Bloemfontein is located in Mangaung Metropolitan Municipality^[3]. Bloemfontein is on the continent of Africa^[5].

Physical Characteristics

Bloemfontein covers an area of {'unit': 'Q712226', 'amount': '+236.17'}^[28]. Bloemfontein sits at an elevation of {'unit': 'Q11573', 'amount': '+1395'}^[29]. Bloemfontein has a population of {'amount': '+256185'}^[24].

Designation and Status

Recorded instance of include city^[6], big city^[7], and judicial capital^[8].

History and Context

January 1, 1846 marks the founding of Bloemfontein^[19]. Things named after include flower^[10] and fountain^[11], a type of architectural structure^[30].

Why It Matters

Bloemfontein ranks in the top 1% of city entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (8,074 views/month).^[2] Bloemfontein has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[31] Bloemfontein is known by 17 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[32]